Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

did, though bearing other names, spread all over
Europe. Mosheim has already been quoted to prove
that, prior to the age of Luther, there lay concealed
in almost every country of the Continent,
especially in Bohemia, Moravia, Switzerland, and
Germany, many peoples in whose minds the
principles maintained by the Waldenses, the
Wycliffites, and the Hussites were deeply planted.
Also in former chapters there has been traced the
spread of the true church throughout Syria, Persia,
India, central Asia, China, and Japan.
Important Dates in Church History
Several chains of prophecy were given which
run more or less parallel to the 1260-year period.
Four dates stand out prominently in the latter part
of the 1260-year period. In a special sense the
movement mirrored in these events brought the
Church in the Wilderness out from her
unrecognized leadership into the foreground. These
dates were: 1453, when Constantinople was
conquered by the Turks; 1483, when Martin Luther
was born; 1492, when Columbus discovered
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