'Heretic' Anabaptist leader burned at the stake in Vienna by Roman Catholics - March 10

In 1851, Chicago Presbyterians expel some members who had passed resolutions against slaveholding.

1528 - Balthasar Hubmaier “head and most important of the Anabaptists” is burned at the stake in Vienna after being condemned as a heretic by Roman Catholics.

1747 - John Newton, a sailor on a slave ship, is converted to Christianity during a huge storm at sea. He eventually becomes an Anglican clergyman, the author of the famous hymn “Amazing Grace” and a zealous abolitionist. “That 10th of March is a day much to be remembered by me, and I have never allowed it to pass unnoticed since the year 1748. For on that day the Lord came from on high and delivered me out of deep waters,” he said.

1851 - Chicago Presbyterians expel some members who had passed resolutions against slaveholding and had threatened to leave the main body of Presbyterians if it persisted in compromising with slaveholders.

1858 - Death in New Haven, Connecticut, of Nathaniel Taylor, a prominent New England theologian who had modified the idea of freedom of will as taught by Jonathan Edwards to make it come more in line with experience. His New Haven church had experienced great growth and revival.

1880 - After an eventful voyage during which an engine broke down, Commissioner George Scott Railton, assisted by seven young women, “invades” New York. Their hats are emblazoned with scarlet ribbon and gilt letters, reading “The Salvation Army.”

1897 - Death in Tokyo of Guido Verbeck. For ten years Verbeck had worked patiently at Nagasaki, building trust, teaching English (with the New Testament and the United States Constitution as his texts), and mastering the Japanese language. When his students became leaders of a new Japanese government, they invited Verbeck to Tokyo where his advice, language skills, and Western contacts proved so invaluable to Japan that the Japanese awarded him the Third Order of the Rising Sun.

– Source: Christian History Institute