Sermons and Biblical Studies

(May 27, 1819–October 17, 1910), was the author of the Civil War song, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which was a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln. She was the daughter of a Wall Street banker, and wife of Doctor Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876), who ran a school for the blind in Boston, (later the … Continue reading “HOWE,
JULIA WARD”

(May 24, 1819–January 22, 1901), Alexandrina Victoria was the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837–1901, and the Empress of India, 1876–1901. Married to Prince Albert in 1840, she bore him nine children. She mourned the rest of her life after his death in 1861. She became immensely popular in her old age, being a … Continue reading “VICTORIA”

(February 22, 1819–August 12, 1891), was an American poet, editor and diplomat. He was the son of Charles Lowell, minister of the West Church in Boston. A graduate of Harvard Law School, James Russell Lowell wrote poetry and prose which received wide acclaim. His well-known works include: Fable For Critics, 1848; and Biglow Papers, 1848–67. … Continue reading “LOWELL,
JAMES RUSSELL”

(February 8, 1819–January 20, 1900), was an English critic, author and philanthropist. He stated: Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it … Continue reading “RUSKIN,
JOHN”

(1819–May 3, 1881), was an American poet. In The Hand That Rules the World, st. I, he stated: The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.2516

(December 3, 1818), was the 21st State admitted to the Union. On August 7, 1789, President George Washington signed into law an Act of Congress which prohibited slavery from entering the territory, entitled “An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio,” Article VI.2512 On December 3, … Continue reading “ILLINOIS,
STATE OF”

(May 5, 1818–March 14, 1883), was a German philosopher, economist and revolutionary. He was known for founding the theory of Communism. He wrote: The Communist Manifesto, 1848; The Class Struggles in France, 1850; The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852; A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859; and Das Kapital, 1867. Karl Marx … Continue reading “MARX,
KARL HEINRICH”

(April 23, 1818–October 20, 1894), was an English historian. He was a professor at Oxford and published the History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, in twelve volumes. James Anthony Froude professed: The Bible, thoroughly known, is literature in itself—the rarest and richest in all departments of … Continue reading “FROUDE,
JAMES ANTHONY”

(d.1818), was the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity. Orphaned at age 10, he was raised by his uncle to be a pagan priest (kahuna) of the Hawaiian religion. He grew disillusioned with the rituals and chants, and left on an American ship bound for New England with his Hawaiian friend, Thomas Hopu. There he was … Continue reading “OPUKAHAI’A,
HENRY”

(December 10, 1817), was the 20th State admitted to the Union. The U.S. Congress, March 1, 1817, during the administration of President James Monroe, passed The Enabling Act for Mississippi, which required the government being formed in that territory to be: … not repugnant to the principles of the [Northwest Ordinance].2498 The Northwest Ordinance stated: … Continue reading “MISSISSIPPI,
STATE OF”