WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ‘HINDUSTAN WALDENSES’?

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ‘HINDUSTAN WALDENSES’?

J.W. Massic says of these Indian [formerly called Hindustan] Sabbath-keeping Christians: ‘Remote from the busy haunts of commerce, or the popular seats of manufacturing industry, they may be regarded as the Eastern Piedmontese, the Vaudois [of Waldenses] of Hindustan, the witnesses prophesying in sack cloth [witnessing their faith in persecution] through revolving centuries, though indeed their bodies lay as dead in the streets of the city which they had once peoples.’ – ‘Continental India,’ p. 120.

Then Came Papal Persecution. “Mr. Massic further says of these Indian Sabbath-keeping Christians: ‘Separates from the Western world for a THOUSAND years, they were naturally ignorant of the many novelties introduced by the councils and decrees of the Lateran [of the Church of Rome]; and their CONFORMITY TO THE FAITH AND THE PRACTICE OF THE FIXED AGES laid them open to the GUILT OF UNPARDONABLE OF HERESY and schism, as estimated by ROME [not by Christ nor the Holy Scriptures]…..

We are Christians, and not idolaters,’ was their expressive reply when required to do homage to the IMAGE OF VIRGIN MARY…..LaCroze states them [numbers] as fifteen hundred churches and as many towns and villages.

They REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE THE POPE, and declared they had never heard of him; they asserted the purity and primitive [original apostolic] truth of their faith since they came, and their bishops had for thirteen hundred years had been sent, from the PLACE where the followers of Jesus were first called CHRISTIANS [ at Antioch at Paul’s time. Acts 11:26).” – ibid, Vol. II, pp. 116, 117.” – Facts of Faith, C. Edwardson, p. 155.

By knowing what happened to the first disciples and apostles
and all the faithful Sabbath-keepers of the past centuries, we will better understand what Revelation 13 and 14 warn of, and thus be better prepared for what lies ahead.

(To be continued). God bless, NMF