Good day fellow reseachers. This is the second of a one week's evaluation of an enlarged and expanded CHI TIH feature. If you wish to comment please follow instructions at the end of the article. Today in History (December 16): 1714 George Whitefield, English revivalist and founder of Calvinistic Methodism, born in Gloucester, England; he met the Wesley brothers at Oxford in 1732, experienced the "new birth" in 1735 and embarked on his lifelong calling as an evangelist; he usually preached outdoors, to crowds as large as 20,000; he first sailed to America in 1738, where he founded an orphanage near Savannah, Georgia; during the years 1741-43, he broke with the Wesleys over the doctrines of free grace and predestination; Whitefield visited America seven times, and died at Newburyport, Massachusetts 1826 John Ellerton, Anglican clergyman, hymnist and hymn translator, born in London, England; ordained in 1850, he wrote his first hymns for the children at his first church, in Brighton; his hymns and his interest in hymnology led the compilers of every significant hymnal published in the last half of the 19th century to consult with him; his own hymns were published in _Hymns, Original and Translated_ (1888), which included "Savior, Again to Thy Dear Name We Raise," "God the Omnipotent King, Who Ordainest," and "Welcome, Happy Morning" 1848 Georg Sverdrup, professor at Augsburg Theological Seminary, born in Balestrand, near Bergen, Norway 1849 Altenburg College moved to St. Louis during the month of December 1854 Wendish Lutherans landed at Galveston, Texas 1888 Trinity German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Winnepeg, Canada, organized For this trial and evaluation to work and be worthwhile I ask that you help us by; 1) withholding your comments until Saturday the 18th of December so that you do not jump to any conclusions based on a limited viewing. 2) that you direct your comments to me or Mary and not to the mailing list. To do that please do not hit the reply button, but rather open a new e-letter, copy and paste one or both of our e-mail addresses, which are near the bottom of this message, into the address box of your new e-letter [if you use both addresses seperate them by a semicolon and a space]. All we need for your response to this trial is the acronym _ PSA _ in the subject line and your comments in the body of the e-letter. We do not need copies of this message unless you find fault with the message itself. If you wish to use these items, please get permission. Permission to post TIH items on LUTHERAN-ROOTS was received from Marvin A. Huggins, C.A., Associate Director Concordia Historical Institute (314)505-7921 801 De Mun Avenue FAX: (314)505-7901 St. Louis, MO 63105-3168 mhuggins@chi.lcms.org Web Page: http://chi.lcms.org/ for now, contributor John Birkholz brotherjohn@imt.net The list owner is Mary D. Taffet mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu