The Struggle For Christian Truth In Italy

Author : Giovanni Luzzi
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230297927
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Christian Truth in Italy written by Giovanni Luzzi and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... MISSIONARY BLOSSOM AND EVANGELICAL FRUIT IN THE GARDEN OF ITALY MISSIONAEY BLOSSOM AND EVANGELICAL FRUIT IN THE GARDEN OF ITALY WE have already seen how God raised up in. Italy the Waldensian church and kept her alive through Jiany fiery persecutions. Evidently God, in so doing, had an aim, a special mission to entrust to the church of His heart. As He intended ancient Israel to be the evangelist of the world, so He intended the Israel of the Alps to be the evangelist of Italy. How far the Israel of the Alps understood its mission we shall shortly see. First of all, however, I think it necessary to speak of a spiritual revival which took place in Italy independently of the Waldensian church and which was already secretly in action in the Italian field when the "Waldensian church was still chained to her rocks awaiting an edict that would emancipate her from her immemorial bondage. During the first half of 1800, Italy, divided and subdivided, was oppressed by the tyranny of foreigners, of Jesuits, and of the Inquisition; the failure of the Italian revolution of 1831 had caused the bitterness of delusion to take the place of the first enthusiasm for a liberty so long hoped for; the hurricane of the French Revolution passing over Italy, had carried away from the mind of even the best that small remnant of religion which they no longer possessed in their hearts; when, suddenly, freedom appeared to revive in the Italian field of literature and science, and it seemed as if it would revive in the field of religion also. The cradle of the religious revival which I am alluding to, was in Tuscany; and in Florence especially. How did it come about? Nobody can say exactly; "the wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof, but...