2018 Reprint of 1935 Second Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Edmund Hamer Broadbent (1861-1945) was a Christian missionary and author. His missionary work from 1900 into the 1920s took him to Austria, Belgium, Egypt, Germany, Poland, Russia, Turkey, the Baltic states, North and South America, and Uzbekistan. His book, The Pilgrim Church, first published in 1931, is an alternative history of the church, unrecorded by secular history. It covers the history of many small churches throughout the ages that have attempted to follow the New Testament church pattern, the success of those that followed the pattern laid out by the apostles and the consequences to the churches that fell away from the pattern. He looks broadly at many groups such as the Paulicians, the Bogomils, the Nestorians, the Waldensians, the Anabaptists, the Hutterites, the Methodists, the Russian Mennonites and the Mennonite Brethren. He classified early primitive churches to Anabaptist, and to Moravian Brethren were historical Brethren Movement.

Contents:

Beginnings -- Christianity in Christendom -- Paulicians and Bogomils -- The east -- Waldenses and Albigenses -- Churches at the close of the Middle Ages -- Lollards, Hussites, the United Brethren -- The Reformation -- The Anabaptists -- France and Switzerland -- English nonconformists -- Labadie, the pietists, Zinzendorf, Philadelphia -- Methodist and missionary movements -- The west -- Russia -- Groves, Muller, Chapman -- Questions of fellowship and of inspiration.