1886. Do you have any idea what happened in the world in 1886? An Englishman (you'll have to look up his name yourself) invented the flush toilet. The first "Avon" ladies started working in the US. Coca-Cola was first advertised and went on sale. (It claimed to be a cure for headaches and dyspepsia.) The tuxedo got its name when tobacco heir Griswold Lorilland wore a short black dinner jacket with satin lapels to the Tuxedo Club in New York, NY. (You realize I googled 1886 to find this information. Not common knowledge for me.)
Emily Dickinson died in 1886.
Among those born in 1886 were Ty Cobb (baseball player), Ed Wynn (comedian) and Karl Barth (theologian.)
There were many other events, births and deaths in 1886. So like any year it has some significant things happening that no one would have known at the time.
Why 1886? That is how many people we counted in worship on Easter. 1886. Who knows the stories that will be written in the lives of those 1886 people? Some will have significant spiritual experiences. Some will become leaders in the church. Some will never show up again. But among the many God is at work. Just another reminder of God at work among us.
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