1775 - The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philidel[joa by Benjamine Franklin and Benjamin Rush (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Exposing and Opposing Slavery Today, by Dr. Peter Hammond
More recommended reading:
The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn't - zerohedge.com
African Slavery Reexamined by Senegalese Academic - americanthinker.com
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln lives till the following day (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The Problem With Lincoln- Interview: Dr. Thomas Dilorenzo, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
1894 - the first-ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City, United States, using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Should Christians Watch Movies? by Dr. David P. Murray
[Note: The text for this sermon is Revelation 18:4 (Audio):
"And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, my people, that ye be not partaker of her sins, and that ye share not in her plagues."
Recommended poems:
The Devil's Vision & The Bible or the TV Guide
1906 - The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Moses, Miracles, Pentecostals, and Charismatics, by Rev. Patrick Hines [Text: Exodus 4:1-13]
Azusa Street Revival, by Gary Hewins [Text: 2 Chronicles 7:14]
From Corinth to Azusa, by Rev. Keith Foskey [Text: I Corinthians 12:1-3]
