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M . Malan's Church of Caivinistfe Separatists in that city . He has published a work entitled , " Etat actual des ] % iises des Vallees , " and a great variety of translations from the most orthodox English divines , into the French language , copies of which he distributes in the Valleys . Mr .
Cunningham also sends a great number of tracts , principally translations from those of the English " Religious Tract Society , " and all inculcating the same peculiar views of the gospel . Rev . W . Stephen Gilly , a clergyman of the Church of England , who has published a " Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piedmont and Researches among the Vaudois or
Waldenses , " 1 vol . 4 to . and 8 vo . 1824 . William Allen , of the Society of Friends , Treasurer to the British and Foreign School Society . Hugh Dyke Acland , Esq ., author of a pamphlet called a " Brief View of the History and Present State of the Vaudois , " John Murray , 1-825 . — Thompson , Esq ., of highly enthusiastic views of religion , and who imagined himself to be gifted with a supernatural power of interpreting languages which he had never learned . — Traill , Esq ., from Ireland , an Antinomian , who held
religious soirdes in his own parlour for the conversion of the Vaudois . Rev . — Nef , said to have taken orders in England * though a native of France , a zealous and eloquent preacher of Antinomiamsrn , and a fellow 4 abourer with M . Malan , in promoting the establishment of his church at Geneva . Rev . — Stuart , a Minister of the Scottish Churchy I understood , in London , animated with great zeal for his peculiar sentiments , and who preached and prayed on some occasions in private houses in the French language . From this list it will be seen to what kind of influence the Vaudois have been of late
subjected in regard to their religious sentiments . I was , I believe , the first Unitarian who had visited them in modern times . Arrived at La Tour , I took up my quarters at the inn opposite the Catholic Church , kept by M . Rollier , where I found that I had been quite misinformed when assured there were no tolerable inns among the Vaudois , this being one of the most comfortable I was ever at . The landlord , a native of Lausanne , settled twelve years at La Tour , informed me that the new sect which was become very numerous in Switzerland had , within the last
year and a halfi found its way into the Valleys , where before they had never had any sects dt all 7 He learned from Ms friends remaining near Lausanne , that this sect had occasioned riots 'by their persevering in obtruding their religious services upon the p \ ibHc m the markets , and wherever they found people assembled for business or amusement . They were called •* Momiers , " whidh he understood to mean the same as Methodist . He tvas vety sorry they toad come to distirfb them in * he Valleys , where they wete perfectly satisfied with their own pastorsWho never troubled them
, about disputed points , but taught them theit dttty as CJhriatians . Mom . Nef and Mr . Traili were Motniers . He had attended Mr . Train ' s services at La Tour ; he ' taught them thdt their worship ought to be addressed to Jesus Christ , that in addressing him fliey necessarily included the Father and the Holjr Spirit , that good works were not at all pleasingin the sight of God , and furnished no ground to hope for exemption from eternal damnation , since ,
after we had done all , we were but unprofitable servants , and , without the blood of Christ to cleanse tis , we must all inevitably perish . He observed that some converts were made at > La * Fdur ,, but ' that in general the Vaudois did not at all like fhe new doctrine . We were commanded in Scripture , he remarked , to address our prayers tojGod in the name of Jesus'Christ , and not to hita ; and he would ' be thought awy hard master who Should say to his servants , at'the fcndof the day , " 'Now you have sill done your duty , but
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/22/
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