theologian, author, and college professor. A graduate of New York
University and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Woodbridge served
several congregations in New York and New Jersey for sixteen years as a
minister in the Reformed Church in America. He was the eleventh
generation in a large family of English and American clergymen dating
back to the late fifteenth century. After accepting a pastoral call in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was appointed professor of ecclesiastical
history and church government at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary,
where he taught for 44 years. He also taught for seven years as
professor of "metaphysics and philosophy of the human mind" at Rutgers
College (now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). Woodbridge
later led the New Brunswick seminary as Dean and President of the
Faculty from 1883 to 1901—both positions were equivalent to a seminary
president. He was the author of three books and several published
sermons and addresses covering various aspects of Christian faith,
theology, church history and governance.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Merrill_Woodbridge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
220:
Emperor Xian abdicated the throne and the Han Dynasty broke
apart, beginning the Three Kingdoms period.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms>
630:
Muslims led by Muhammad conquered Mecca from the Quraysh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_Mecca>
1886:
The London-based football club Arsenal, then known as Dial
Square, played their first match on the Isle of Dogs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Arsenal_F.C._(1886%E2%80%931966)>
1946:
The United Nations General Assembly created UNICEF, originally
to help provide emergency food and health care to children in countries
that had been devastated by World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF>
1981:
Salvadoran Civil War: About 900 civilians were killed by the
Salvadoran armed forces in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre>
2008:
American stock broker Bernard Madoff was arrested and charged
with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, the largest such in
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stigmatize:
(transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with
a stigma or stigmata.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stigmatize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We shall not look at caste or religion. All human beings in this
land — whether they be those who preach the vedas or who belong to
other castes — are one.
--Subramanya Bharathi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Subramanya_Bharathi>
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