The Waldensian Movement, I

"Turn off the main highway at Morganstown or Hickory, if you plan to visit Valdese. Take the road down into the valley. The little North Carolina town, as you approach it, looks for all the world like a picture of northern Italy. There are the white houses, the red tiled roofs; the rolling vineyards. But it is an American town, too, with prosperous farms, commercial bakeries and a thriving hosiery industry."¹ There are also Waldensian colonies, about 20,000 strong, in Uruguay and Argentina....