December 24
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520 B.C. - The Approximate Date That Haggai Rebuked the Priests.
Haggai rebuked the priest for the unclean nation and warned of coming destruction. Haggai 2:10.
1274 - Robin Hood Died.
1486 - Savanarola Sat in His Pulpit Five Hours Waiting for Power.
Savanarola would not preach without the power of God!
1784 - The Methodist Denomination was Organized in America.
1865 : The first KKK is founded
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the Ku Klux Klan. The first incarnation of the KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government's progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.
The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning "circle," and the Scottish-Gaelic word "clan", and not, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speculated in ‘The Five Orange Pips’ (1891), derived from “the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle”. which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK's first Grand Wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan's excessive violence.
Most prominent in counties where the races were relatively balanced, the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. In 1871, the Ku Klux Act passed Congress, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to use military force to suppress the KKK. The Ku Klux Act resulted in nine South Carolina counties being placed under martial law and thousands of arrests. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act unconstitutional, but by that time Reconstruction had ended and the KKK had faded away.
The 20th century witnessed two revivals of the KKK: one in response to immigration in the 1910s and 20s, and another in response to the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. (www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/December-24.html)
1866 - Annie Johnson Flint was Born.
Miss Flint was a poet and a cripple. She wrote the poem, "Hands and Feet for Him."
Christ has no hands but our hands
To do His work today;
He has no feet but our feet
To lead men in His way;
He has no lips but our lips
To tell men how He died;
He has no help but our help
To bring them to His side.
We are the only Bible
The careless world will read;
We are the sinner's gospel;
We are the scoffer's creed;
We are our Lord's last message,
Written in deed and word;
What if the type be crooked?
What if the print be blurred?
What if our hands be busy
With other work than His?
What if our feet be walking
Where sin's allurement is-
If our lips be speaking
Of things His lips would spurn,
How can we hope to help Him,
Or hasten our Lord's return?
1871- The Northside Tabernacle in Chicago was Dedicated by Moody.
This tabernacle was the father of what is now the famous Moody Memorial Church.
1943 - General Eisenhower was Appointed the European Commander.
Let us thank God for this great man and his influence on our nation.
Haggai rebuked the priest for the unclean nation and warned of coming destruction. Haggai 2:10.
1274 - Robin Hood Died.
1486 - Savanarola Sat in His Pulpit Five Hours Waiting for Power.
Savanarola would not preach without the power of God!
1784 - The Methodist Denomination was Organized in America.
1865 : The first KKK is founded
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the Ku Klux Klan. The first incarnation of the KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government's progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.
The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning "circle," and the Scottish-Gaelic word "clan", and not, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speculated in ‘The Five Orange Pips’ (1891), derived from “the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle”. which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK's first Grand Wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan's excessive violence.
Most prominent in counties where the races were relatively balanced, the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. In 1871, the Ku Klux Act passed Congress, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to use military force to suppress the KKK. The Ku Klux Act resulted in nine South Carolina counties being placed under martial law and thousands of arrests. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act unconstitutional, but by that time Reconstruction had ended and the KKK had faded away.
The 20th century witnessed two revivals of the KKK: one in response to immigration in the 1910s and 20s, and another in response to the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. (www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/December-24.html)
1866 - Annie Johnson Flint was Born.
Miss Flint was a poet and a cripple. She wrote the poem, "Hands and Feet for Him."
Christ has no hands but our hands
To do His work today;
He has no feet but our feet
To lead men in His way;
He has no lips but our lips
To tell men how He died;
He has no help but our help
To bring them to His side.
We are the only Bible
The careless world will read;
We are the sinner's gospel;
We are the scoffer's creed;
We are our Lord's last message,
Written in deed and word;
What if the type be crooked?
What if the print be blurred?
What if our hands be busy
With other work than His?
What if our feet be walking
Where sin's allurement is-
If our lips be speaking
Of things His lips would spurn,
How can we hope to help Him,
Or hasten our Lord's return?
1871- The Northside Tabernacle in Chicago was Dedicated by Moody.
This tabernacle was the father of what is now the famous Moody Memorial Church.
1943 - General Eisenhower was Appointed the European Commander.
Let us thank God for this great man and his influence on our nation.