January 2
J. K. Wilhelm Loehe, Pastor
Although he never left Germany, Johann Konrad
Wilhelm Loehe, born in Fuerth in 1808, had a profound impact
on the development of Lutheranism in North America. Serving
as pastor in the Bavarian village of Neuendettelsau, he
recognized the need for workers in developing lands and
assisted in training emergency helpers to be sent as
missionary pastors to North America, Brazil and Australia. A
number of the men he sent to the United States became
founders of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Through his
financial support, a theological school was established in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a teachers institute in Saginaw,
Michigan. Loehe was known for his confessional integrity and
his interest in liturgy and catechetics. His devotion to
works of Christian charity led to the establishment of a
deaconess training house and homes for the aged. [From
“Commemorations Biographies,”
Lutheran Service Book, LCMS Commission on Worship]
826
Adalhard, abbot of
Corbie,
died.
1629
Christian Scriver,
devotional writer, was born at Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein
(d. 5 April 1693, Quedlinburg).
1792
Edward Perronet, Swiss-born English clergyman, poet and hymnist,
died in Canterbury (b. 1726, Sundridge, Kent, England).
1801 John Caspar Lavater, anti-rationalist
Swiss theologian, died (b. 1741).
1810
Johann
Friedrich Buenger, part of
the Saxon Immigration to America, president of the Western
District of the Missouri Synod and founder of the Lutheran
Hospital in Saint Louis, as well as the Lutheran orphans
home and home for the aged, was born at Rosswein, Saxony (d.
23 January 1882).
1816
Benjamin Hobson, medical
missionary to China, was born in Welford, England (d. 28
July 1839).
1828
Jeremiah E. Rankin,
American Congregational clergyman and hymnist, was born in
Thornton, New Hampshire (d. 28 November 1904, Cleveland,
Ohio).
1832
Philip Adam Peter, hymnist,
was born in Hesse-Nassau (d. 19 February 1919).
1833
William Forbes Adams,
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Easton (Maryland), was born
at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland.
1851
John T. McFarland, hymnist, was
born (d. 22 December 1913).
1878
Edward Caswall (b. 15 July 1814, Yately, Hampshire, England), hymn
translator, died in Edgbaston, England.
1883
Charles Porterfield Krauth,
theologian and leader of Lutheranism in America, died (b. 17
March 1823, the son of Charles Philip Krauth, at
Martinsburg, [West] Virginia).
1891
Henry Frederick Wind, executive
secretary of the Missouri Synod's Department of Social
Welfare (1953–1966), was
born in Millard, Nebraska (d. 24 February 1966).
1893
Magnus
Fredrik (Frederick) Haakanson (Hokanson), Augustana Synod
pastor, died (b. 7 [11?] September 1811 at Ronneby,
Blekinge, Sweden).
1909
Aimee Semple
(1870-1944) and her husband, Robert, were ordained by
Chicago evangelist William H. Durham.
1914
Rachel
Saint, American missionary to Ecuador, was born in Jenkintown,
Pennsylvania (d. 1994).
1921 Religious
broadcasting began with an Episcopal service over
KDKA,
Pittsburgh.
1924
Sabine Baring-Gould,
a prolific English author and hymnist, died at Lew Trenchard
(b. 28 January 1834, Exeter).
1927
Junius Benjamin Remensnyder,
president of the General Synod, died (b. 24 February 1841
near Staunton, Virginia).
1933
Andrew
George Voigt, theologian and educator in the United Lutheran
Synod of the South, died (b. 22 January 1859, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania).
1940 Cesar A. Lazos arrived in Mexico City to
open LCMS work there.
1945
Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah
(b. 17 August 1874), the first Indian bishop of the Anglican
Church in India, died.
1960 Theodore
Gutknecht died at Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (b. 29 March 1883, Caledonia, Minnesota). He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1907 and served from 1907 to 1916 and 1922 to 1929 as a missionary to India. From 1924 to 1928 he served as the first president of Concordia Seminary (Nagercoil, India). He later served parishes at Nashua-Campbell and Swanville, Minnesota; What Cheer and Oskaloosa, Iowa; and Sigel, Illinois. He retired in 1958.