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200 Years Ago

Bishop Asbury?s Journal, Jan. 22, 1806

• At Beaufort, N.C., the bishop found the whole town 'disposed to bow to the Lord Jesus.'

100 Years Ago

Methodist Protestant, Jan. 17, 1906

• An attempt to unify the Japanese missions of the American and Canadian Methodist denominations failed.

Methodist Protestant, Jan. 31, 1906

• Faith Methodist Protestant in Waverly gained 14 members, aged 15 to 60, from revival meetings.
• Bishop Ezekiel Kephart of the United Brethren died after 26 years episcopal service.

25 Years Ago

Circuit Rider, Jan. 16 and 23, 1981

• The Rev. Charles Wallace, Washington East District superintended, completed a study leave at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
• World Methodist Evangelism Director, Alan Walker of Australia, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
•  Good Shepherd UMC at Waldorf will add a 80 by 60 feet nave to the church.
•  Bishops Wertz, Mathews and Carroll appealed to Israel on behalf of Palestinian human rights.

10 Years Ago

Connection, Jan. 24, 1996

• The 50th anniversary of the first United Nations Assembly was celebrated at Westminster Central Hall in London where the meeting had convened.
• United Methodists opened an Asia Pacific Peace Center in Washington, D.C.
• An Oklahoma Indian pastor pleaded for the 1996 General Conference to seek forgiveness for an 1864 massacre of 200 peaceful Cheyenne Indians by U.S. irregulars led by a Methodist local preacher.
• UMCOR reported that in 1995 the agency responded to 35 disasters worldwide including the Oklahoma City bombing.