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CHAPTER III. tur anb As the two systems, the good and the evil, a
developed Christianity and a matured Popery, come together, so,
too, did the two men who were to stand at the head of these
respective systems. Luther came first into the world, Loyola
arrived only three years later. Their births, so near in point of
time, were separated by a vast social distance. Luther was a
miner's child, and drew his first breath in an humble cottage on
the Thuringian Plain. Loyola, whose proper name was Don Inigo Lopez
de Recaldo, was the son of a Spanish grandee, and first saw the
light in the castle of Loyola, on the shores of the Bay of Biscay,
where his father kept court, with the customary ceremonial, of the
feudal barons of these days. This was in the year 1491. Nature had
endowed these two men with qualities not unlike. Both felt the
stirrings of a great enthusiasm, ? the miner's son under the cold
sky of Germany not less than the young grandee in the warm and
impulsive air of Spain. But the renown which the future was to
bring them was to be of a kind, and achieved in a way wholly
different from that which either pictured to himself. It was
through darkness, discipline, and great suffering that both were to
come to the fulfilment of their early dreams. There are few
contrasts in history so striking and instructive as that which is
seen in the lives of these two men. Its study would repay a longer
consideration than we can here give it. It places us beside the
fountain heads of the two mighty movements ? the Reformation and
Jesuitism ? which continue to this day, beyond all other
influences, to mould the condition of the world. Far separated by
distance of place, and totally unaware of the existence of each
other, as were these two men, there was, nevertheless, a secret
link establ...
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A fierce battle wages between Christ and Satan over the hearts and
minds of every man, woman and child. On the front lines of this war
are those who dare to shine the light of the Holy Bible on the
darkness of those who would usurp God's sovereignty. In the latter
years of the Middle Ages, a people called the Waldenses dared to
stand against the religio-political power of a corrupt Roman
Catholic Church, pitting truth against tradition and greed. This
updated edition of the Scottish historian, James Aitken Wylie's
classic The History of the Waldenses, chronicles the perils, plight
and persecution of the Waldenses across the centuries as they
devoted all they had--even their lives--to preserving the sacred
truths of the Gospel and taking them to the world.
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