Evangelists as Well as Evangelical by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 8, 1910

Evangelists as Well as Evangelical

By A. J. S. B.

IN speaking of the Waldenses, J. A. Wylie, the historian, says:—

“To maintain the truth in their own mountains was not the only object of this people. They felt their relation to the rest of Christendom. They were an evangelistic as well as an evangelical church. There was no kingdom of southern or central Europe to which these missionaries did not find their way, and where they did not leave traces of their visit in the disciples whom they made.

“They went forth two and two, under the guise of secular profession, most commonly that of merchants or peddlers. They carried silks, jewelry, and other articles, and were welcomed as merchants where they would have been spurned as missionaries. The door of the cottage and the portal of the baron’s castle stood equally open to them.

“They concealed among their wares or about their persons, portions of the Word of God, their own transcription commonly, and to this they would draw the attention of the inmates.”

Such was the method of evangelization used by the noble Protestant people who existed centuries before the rise of the great Protestant Reformation.

A. J. S. B.