On this day, 28 August 1833, the British parliament banned slavery throughout the British Empire. This was after thirty years of effort by British Christian evangelicals like William Wilberforce.
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Listen again to the story of the Reverend John Witherspoon. Although he was the best public speaker in Great Britain in the 18th century, he moved to America and fostered American independence from Britain. First broadcast on “Christians who have made a difference” on Songs of Hope, 18 August 2013
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Florence Nightingale cared for wounded soldiers and in so doing created the nursing profession. Listen again to her story on Songs of Hope podcast.
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Florence Nightingale
Our Christian who made a difference is a lady who broke with English conventions on how an upper class woman should live. She dedicated her life to making a difference for people in hospital and wounded soldiers. She is known now as the “lady of the lamp”. She is the founder of the nursing profession. She was a practising Christian living by Christian values. She is Florence Nightingale.
The head of the largest church in the world, Yonggi Cho, has come to Melbourne expressly to thank a Melbourne church for sending missionaries to Korea late in the 19th century. The missionary endeavour they started has resulted in there being 17 million Christians in South Korea today.
The church he came to thank is St Mary’s Anglican Church in Caulfield. Our “Christians who have made a difference” segment today is brought to us by the minister of St Mary’s, the Reverend Mark Durie.
The first Australian missionary to Korea was Henry Davies in 1890, but he died of smallpox and pneumonia after 8 months, aged only 32 years, and is buried in Busan.
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Hear again the story of Pastor Doug Nicholls. He was an aboriginal activist, boxer, represented Victoria in Australian Rules Football, and pastor of a Church of Christ in Melbourne. Broadcast in segment “Christians who have made a difference” on “Songs of Hope”.
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