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  1. The year was 1797. We remember Henry Nott and his mission to Tahiti. The reading is from James K. Baxter.
  2. The year was 1827. We remember Indian Christian Abdul Masih on the anniversary of his death. The reading is from Abdul Masih.
  3. The year was 1311. We remember Antony Bek, the Bishop of Durham. The reading for today comes from N.T. Wright on the centrality of Jesus.
  4. The year was 1861. We remember the birthday of Lucy Whitehead McGill Waterbury Peabody. The reading is from Isaac Watts.
  5. We remember the calling of the Hussite Crusades in 1420. The reading is from St. Ephrem of Edessa.
  6. The year was 1870. We remember the creation of the Bulgarian Exarchate and ecclesiastical independence. The reading is a poem from Reginald Heber.
  7. The year was 1773. We remember the completion of Christ Church Alexandria, Virginia on this date. The reading is from “Christ is Made the Sure Foundation” by John Mason Neale.
  8. The year was 1891. We remember the baptism of Brahmabandhav Upadhyay. The reading is from Sadhu Sundar Singh.
  9. The year was 1591. We remember Friedrich Spee, a pastor, and hunter of witch hunters. The reading is a lenten prayer from Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
  10. The year was 1915. We remember former slave and evangelist Amanda Berry Smith. The reading is “The Ballad of Mary’s Son” by Langston Hughes.
  11. The year was 1925. We remember noted famed missions founder, Dr. Kate Waller Barrett. The reading is the Lenten hymn "Lord Who Through These 40 Days" by Claudia Frances Hernaman.
  12. The year was 1943. We remember Christoph Probst, Hans Scholl, and Sophie Scholl. The reading for today is a short inscription from Sophie Scholl's diary.
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