I get a regular email from Christianity Today – Today in Christian History. Here is one of today’s notices – regarding January 15, 1697. I’m not sure I knew this, nor how this event transpired and what happened. Makes me think.
January 15, 1697: Massachusetts citizens observe a day of fasting and repentance for the Salem witch trials of 1692, in which 19 suspected witches were hanged and more than 150 imprisoned. The day was declared “That so all of God’s people may offer up fervent supplications unto him, that all iniquity may be put away, which hath stirred God’s holy jealousy against this land; that he would show us what we know not, and help us, wherein we have done amiss, to do so no more”.