Chapter II.
The Teaching Church
The schools and doctrine of the early Waldensian Church—Biography of Peter Waldo.
PERSECUTION and the cross! Yes, we now enter
on that long struggle against tyranny, and endurance of wrong; that heroic defence of truth which has no parallel in the history of any other Church or nation. We have said that as the Italian Church receded from its ancient faith,
the Vaudois Church came more prominently forward in the maintenance of Christian purity. The transition from
the gorgeous ritual of the hierarchy to the naked sublimity of the Pra del Tor,[1] would furnish a subject for a dissolving view of striking contrast—shall we try and paint it?
It should be at the moment of vespers, as the setting sun
- ↑ Or Meadow of the Turn called in Italian, Prato del Torno, in patois Pra del Tor, or Pré du Tour. A sudden turn in the valley of Angrogna brings one in sight of the meadow.
