Happy Fawked Guy Day!

This Day in History

"This day is notable in English history for two great deliverances wrought by God for us. On this day the plot of the Papists to destroy our Houses of Parliament was discovered, 1605.

"While for our princes they prepare
In caverns deep a burning snare,
He shot from heaven a piercing ray,
And the dark treachery brought to day."

And secondly—today is the anniversary of the landing of King William III, at Torbay, by which the hope of Popish ascendancy was quashed, and religious liberty was secured, 1688.
This day ought to be celebrated, not by the saturnalia of striplings, but by the songs of saints. Our Puritan forefathers most devoutly made it a special time of thanksgiving. There is extant a record of the annual sermons preached by Matthew Henry on this day. Our Protestant feeling, and our love of liberty, should make us regard its anniversary with holy gratitude. Let our hearts and lips exclaim, "We have heard with our ears, and our fathers have told us the wondrous things which thou didst in their day, and in the old time before them." Thou hast made this nation the home of the gospel; and when the foe has risen against her, thou hast shielded her. Help us to offer repeated songs for repeated deliverances."

-Charles H. Spurgeon

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

Guy Fawkes of the infamous Gunpowder Plot, plotted with his friends to rent a house close enough to the Houses of Parliament to smuggle 36 barrels of gunpowder into the cellar.

Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated in the UK, sometimes as Bonfire Night. I would suggest "Dodged a Bullet Day".

Guy Fawkes and the Low Information Voter