The Waldenses
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Amid the gloom that settled upon the earth during the long period of papal supremacy, ....In every age there were witnesses for God--*men who cherished faith in Christ as the only mediator between God and man, *who held the Bible as the only rule of life, *and who hallowed the true Sabbath.
--In Great Britain primitive Christianity had very early taken root. The gospel received by the Britons in the first centuries was then uncorrupted by Romish apostasy.
In lands beyond the jurisdiction of Rome there existed for many centuries bodies of Christians who remained almost wholly free from papal corruption. They were surrounded by heathenism and in the lapse of ages were affected by its errors; but they continued to regard the Bible as the only rule of faith and adhered to many of its truths. These Christians believed in the perpetuity of the law of God and observed the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. Churches that held to this faith and practice existed --in Africa and among the Armenians of Asia.
--But of those who resisted the encroachments of the papal power, the Waldenses stood foremost. Theirs was not a faith newly received. Their religious belief was their inheritance from their fathers. They contended for the faith of the apostolic church,--the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Jude 3....Scattered over many lands, they planted the seeds of the Reformation that began in the time of Wycliffe, grew broad and deep in the days of Luther, and is to be carried forward to the close of time by those who also are willing to suffer all things for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. Revelation 1:9