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January, 1957 Published in the Interest of the Best the Religious, Social, and Economic Phases of Mennonite Culture January, 1957 Published in the interest of the best the religious, social, and economic phases of Mennonite culture As Gifts MENNONITE LIFE suggests 1. Mennonite Life binders. Will hold ten issues of Mennonite Life for $2 each. 2. Menno Simons painting by A. Harder. Colored print (18” x 24”) for $2. 3. Bernese Mennonite Farm. Colored print (10” x 8”) of painting by A. Robert for $1.50. 4. Christopher Dock by Oliver Shenk. Black and white print (8” x 9”) for $1. 5. We now offer five bound volumes of Mennonite Life for the years 1946-48, 1949-50, 1951-52, 1953-54, and 1955-56. The first volume sells for $6; each of the other volumes sell for $5. A gift card will announce your gift. Send orders for pictures, binders and bound volumes to MENNONITE LIFE North Newton, Kansas COVER Bethel College Mennonite Church, North Newton, Kansas Photo by Willard Ciaassen MENNONITE LIFE An Illustrated Quarterly EDITOR Cornelius Krahn ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR John F. Schmidt ASSOCIATE EDITORS Harold S. Bender S. F. Pannabecker J. Winfield Fretz Robert Kreider Melvin Gingerich J. G. Rempel N. van der Zijpp Vol. XII January, 1957 No. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Peace and Good Will...... ....................................... ..................................................... Jacob Sudermann 3 The Word........................................................................................................................ Jacob Sudermann 3 The Challenge of a New Church................................................................................. Harold IF. Buller 4 Building a College Community Church.........................................................................Ed. G. Kaufman 6 Hesston . Congregation Builds New Worship Center.......................................Daniel Kauffman 11 Building the Lord’s House.......................................................................................... Don. E. Smacker 18 Mennonite Church Architecture.................................................................................... Cornelius Krahn 19 What Is Central in Worship...............................................................................................Elmer Ediger 28 Recent American Church Architecture..........................................................................Jam es W. Bixel 31 Ye Have Done it unto Me................................................................................................Carl R. Jantzen 35 The Association of Mennonite University Students.....................................................Reinhard Vogt 39 New Avenues of Service for Women............................................................................ Doreen Harms 41 Woman s Place in the World...............................................................................Elaijie Sommers Rich 42 A Missionary on the Titanic...........................................................................Mrs. Christena Duerksen 44 Why I Am a Mennonite.................................................................................................. Dedrich Naval! 41 Editions of the Ausbund ...............................................................................................Joh. P. Classen 47 Mennonite Life is an illustrated Quarterly magazine published in January, April, July, and October by Bethel College, North New­ ton, Kan. Entered as second-class matter Dec. 20, 1D4G, at the post office at North Newton, Kan., under Act of March 3, 1S79. GsatdraUttosid. in ^hiA, OAAue (From left to right) DON. SMUCKER teaches social ethics at Mennonite Biblical Seminary and is a frequent lecturer on subjects of Mennonite interest |p. 18). CORNELIUS KRAHN, secretary of the Historical Committee of the General Conference Mennonite Church (p. 19). JOHN P. CLASSEN, Winnipeg, a carpenter by profession, is an outstanding Anabaptist-Mennonite musicologist (p. 47). JACOB SUDERMANN, Goshen, Indiana, is a frequent contributor to Mennonite periodicals (p. 3) . HAROLD W. BULLER, North Newton, Kansas, will soon assume the pastorate of the First Mennonite Church, Beatrice, Neb. (p. 4). JAMES W. BIXEL, Bethel College, used a Danforth Foundation Scholarship at Union Seminary in the summer of 1956 (p. 31). ELMER EDIGER is executive secretary of the General Conference Board of Christian Service, Newton, Kansas (p. 28). ELAINE SOMMERS RICH, a homemaker in North Newton, Kansas, writes frequently for church publications (p. 42). ED. G. KAUFMAN, president emeritus of Bethel College, continues active as instructor and public speaker (p. 6). DANIEL KAUFFMAN, on leave of absence from Hesston College, is studying at Teachers College, Columbia University (p. 11). FOR PICTURES SEE STORY CARL R. JANTZEN, a senior at Bethel College, spent two years in Iraq fulfulling alternative service duties (p. 35). REINHARD VOGT, University of Manitoba, was president of the Association of Mennonite University Students (p. 39). DOREEN HARMS spent some years in Germany under the MCC and is now in the office of the MCC, Akron (p. 41). NOT SHOWN MRS. CHRISTENA DUERKSEN has been, with her husband, a missionary to India the last thirty years (p. 44). DEDRICH NAVALL, retired, George Pepperdine College, Pasadena, taught languages and history, author of books on Russia (p. 47). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Photography p. 6 ,7 , Willard Claassen. Photography, p. 8 and top p. 11, Photoways. Photos, bottom p. 1 1, Hagan Studio. Photos, p. 15, Lynxwiier Studio. Photo, top p. 17, Waltner; bottom and right p. 17 Peter Wocinkas. Cuts, pp. 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, THE MENNONITE ENCYCLOPEDIA. Photography p. 32, Ch. L. Dert. Cuts, p. 33. IN THE SERVICE OF THE KING. Cut p. 42, THE MENNONITE. Cuts p. 45 Mennonite General Conference. MENNONITE LIFE AGENTS EASTERN USA Montgomery News Stand Country Store P. T. Friesen Bookstore Bluffton, Ohio Meade, Kansas Friendly Book Store Winkler, Mnnitobn Qunkcrtown, Pa. Book and Bible Store Evangel Book Shop Mountain Lake, Minn. CANADIAN Steinbnch, Manitoba Herald Bookstore Mennonite Book Store Souderton, Pa. The Bookshop Golden Rule Bookstore Freeman, South Dakota 187 King St. East Rosthern, Sask. Weaver Book Store Kitchener, Ontario J. A. Friesen & Sons 1320 G St. A. P. RatzlalT Hague, Sask. Lancaster, Pa. H enderson, Nel>. Peter II. Dirks Printshop Virgil, Ontario Derksen’s Christian Supply CENTRA!. AND WESTERN Mennonite Co-op Book Store N orth C learlirook, B. C. •Kill Woodlawn G. D. Wo elk Henry Nikkei Gospel Book Store Chicago 15, 111. Leamington, Ont. Economy Corner Goshen, Indiana The Christian Press Conldale, Alberta Menn. Brethren Pub. House Goshen College Book Store 1Ö7 Kelvin St. EUROPEAN Hillsboro, Kunsas Winnipeg, Manitoba Goshen, Indiana Mennonitengemeindc Mennonite Book Concern Crossroads Co-op D. W. Friesen & Sons Suedwall 19 Berne, Indiana Goessel, Kansas Altona, Manitoba Krefeld, U.S. Zone, Germany Annual subscriptions $2.00; Single copies 50 cents; Bound volumes $5.00 (two years in each) Printed by the Mennonite Press, North Newton, Kansas Peace and Good Will By JACOB SUDERAAANN HRISTMAS is the greatest holy day observed by earth. That is peace on the social level. God intends it to Christendom. The world recognizes it as such occur among us; He has given us the tool to realize it. C and tries to make the most ol' it. Its real mean­ That it is still not a fact is our fault, not His. ing, however, is lost in the swirl of commercialism; its Peace on earth is God’s desire for us, but his good holiness is trampled upon by the good-time seekers. In will toward us is an eternal verity, a perpetual fact that the hotel lobbies and other public places concerned peo­ has always been in operation. How can a creator be in­ ple have put up signs that read: ‘‘Put Christ back into different to his creation? This perpetual good will Christmas.” In these signs the silent reproach is deaf­ toward us makes possible the peace we long for. It is an ening. Somewhere among the piles of Christmas wrap­ obsession with God. This is what impells His unending pings and tinsel Christ is perennially thrown away, the efforts to reveal himself to men, to break through that most precious gift of all. barrier of separation we label sin. He has used all the It is a relief to turn to the Gospels of Matthew and instruments at his command toward this end: He has Luke, and reassure ourselves of the importance of the used nature’s elements; he has ever found His Abrahams, person, Christ, to this important event. The Scriptures His Isaacs and His Jacobs; I-Ie has whispered low and reach for the superlative in language to express it. thundered loud through his prophets and judges as the They leave prose behind and vault to the majestic ca­ need dictated; He is wanting to use us if we will con­ dence of the hymn. We find four such hymns recorded in sent. the Gospel of Luke. Let us meditate a few moments But all these methods are only auxiliary; they do not on the shorter one of these, the Gloria in Excelsis with satisfy His good will. He decided to work in person. This its peace and good-will message. is the great event we are celebrating. 1-Ie divided His Most people who read the word peace will under­ spirit without suffering diminishment. One part of it He stand it to mean a cessation of physical strife, or an era put into that tiny bundle of love lying in a stable in where justice is available to all. This is natural. What Bethlehem. Yes, the baby Jesus, the straw, the oxen, the is more in the consciousness of men than the eternal lowly shepherds, the royal wisemen. We love to empha­ strife
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