{"id":84434,"date":"2019-08-02T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84434"},"modified":"2019-08-01T05:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:33:54","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-the-right-reverend-samuel-david-ferguson-1842-1916-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84434","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of the Right Reverend Samuel David Ferguson (1842-1916)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who didst raise up thy servant Samuel Ferguson and inspire in him a missionary vision of thy Church in education and ministry: Stir up in us through his example a zeal for a Church, alive with thy Holy Word, reaching forth in love and service to all; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDayInBlackHistory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDayInBlackHistory<\/a> (18 June 1885): Samuel David Ferguson was consecrated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia. He was the first Black American with full membership in the House of Bishops. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JbfcS7BdOV\">pic.twitter.com\/JbfcS7BdOV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thabiti Anyabwile (@ThabitiAnyabwil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThabitiAnyabwil\/status\/1143113035256487937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who didst raise up thy servant Samuel Ferguson and inspire in him a missionary vision of thy Church in education and ministry: Stir up in us through his example a zeal for a Church, alive with thy Holy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84434\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,524,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-liberia","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84437,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84434\/revisions\/84437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}