The History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Vol. 1 of 2
United Brethren history is, for the most part, a history of spiritual religion in opposition to carnal ecclesiasticism. If the question be asked, what is it that most distinctly marks the history of the Waldenses, the United Brethren, the earlier Mennonites, the Church of the United Brethren, the Renewed United Brethren, and the United Brethren in Christ, it must be answered, it was the spiritual life which they cherished and diffused abroad. It was for the religion of the heart, - the religion of the Holy Spirit, - that they turned their backs upon the parade and glitter of great worldly churches, earnestly contended, cheerfully suffered, and bravely died. The same Spirit which was poured out upon the disciples, on the day of Pentecost, made an evangelist of Peter Waldo, endued the Brethren at Lititz with power in 1457, sat upon the lips of Menno Simonis, and fired, with missionary ardor, the builders of Herrnhut.
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