1867 - At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and His Evangelical Sister, by Dr. Ian Brown
The text for this sermon is Isaiah 28:16:
"Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste."
