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Published in the interest of the best the religious, so cia l, and economic phases of Mennonite culture Bound Volumes and Binders 1. Volume 1-3 (1946-48) ten issues bound in black buckram with Men nonite Life stamped in gold on back at $6. 2. Volume 4-5 (1949-50) eight issues bound as above at S5. 3. Both volumes may be ordered for the special price of $10. 4. Binder made to hold ten issues of your Mennonite Life—S2. Address all correspondence: MENNONITE LIFE North Newton, Kansas Gdver •Jonathan and Eli. A m i s h h o g s Photograph by Jano Latta MENNONITE LIFE An Illustrated Quarterly EDITOR Cornelius Krahn ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR John F. Schmidt ASSOCIATE EDITORS Harold S. Bender Robert Kreider J. Winfield Fretz S. F. Pannabecker Melvin Gingerich J. G. Rempel N. van der Zijpp Vol. VI April, 1951 No. 2 t;a b l e o f c o n t e n t s Page Contributors ------ 2 “He Is Risen, As He Said!” ................................................H. N. Harder 3 Service in Puerto Rico - - - - ----- Marvin Dyck 4 Your Family—The Key to Happiness - Pitirim A. Sorokin Early Days in Manitoba - J. N. Hoeppner 11 Joseph Stuckey and the Central Conference ----- Harry Yoder 16 The Amish in Kansas - - - - - D. Paul Miller 20 A Gallery of Animal Friends - Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Fanders 24 Mennonites of Krefeld - Walther Risler 26 Mennonites and Doopsgezinden Irvin B. Horst 29 A Good Old Frisian ----- ----- John D. Unruh 31 Planning a Christian Community - J. W. Fretz 34 Die Auswanderung aus Preussen 1788-1870 ----- Horst Quiring 37 Lieder und Tod der Taeufer - Johann P. Classen 40 Mennonite Research in Progress Cornelius Krahn and Melvin Gingerich 41 Mennonite Bibliography, 1950 - Cornelius Krahn and Melvin Gingerich 42 Books in Review Ed. G. Kauf man, Cornelius Krahn, Eimer Suderman 44 Mennonite Life is an illustrated quarterly magazine published in January. April, July and October by Bethel College, North Nerwton, Kansas. Entered as Becond-class matter December 20, 1946, at the post office at North Newton, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Contnibfuton4 La tkiA (From left to rinht) D. PAUL MILLER teaches sociology at Emporia State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas (p.20). JOHN D.UNRUH, Freeman, was MCC representative in Holland and has written a history of the MCC (p.31). J. N. HOEPPNER, who was pastor and teacher of the Bergthal Mennonite Church, Altona, Man., died in 1950 (p.ll). J. W. FRETZ teaches sociology and is to make a survey of Mennonite settlements in South America (p.34). HORST QUIRING, Stuttgart, formerly pastor of the Mennonite church at Berlin, is active in publication work (p.37). HARRY YODER has been pastor of Central Conference Churches, is now assistant to the president of Bluffton College (p.lG). IRVIN HORST is the MCC representative at Amsterdam where he is also doing graduate work (p.29). MARVIN DYCK, former member of Puerto Rico CPS unit, is laboratory technician in State Health Department, Topeka (n.4). PL N. HARDER is pastor of the First Mennonite Church, Aberdeen, Id., and chairman of the Pacific District Conference (p.3). NOT SHOWN WALTHER RISLER, member of the Krefeld Mennonite Church is a specialist in the history of the Lower Rhine (p.2S). JOHANN P. CLASSEN, Winnipeg, Manitoba, is an expert in the field of Anabaptist-Mennonite musicology (p.40). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Photography p. 4, 5, Puerto Rico Office of Information; Photography p. 8, Arthur Griffin; Photography, top pp. 20-21, Farm Security Administration; Map p. 21, D. Paul Miller and John F. Schmidi; Photography pp. 24-25, Mrs. and Mrs. H. II. Fanders. Printed by The Herald Book & Printing Co., Inc., Newton, Kansas %<(S) III By H. N. HARDER HE day commemorating the resurrection of Christ bination that made the early Christians braver than is the Church’s great and glorious day. At the the Roman legionnaires and more determined than all T open tomb a heavenly messenger appeared with their persecutors. the testimony: “Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek This crowning fact—He is risen!—assures every true Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, believer of his acceptance with God. So long as Christ as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And lay in the grave there was no assurance that his redemp go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from tive work had been acceptable to God. As Paul says, the dead.” (Matt. 28:5-7) “Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised Thus the Easter message started. It spread as though again for our justification.” His resurrection is evidence its feet had wings. The women proclaimed it to the dis that Christ’s atoning blood had not been shed in vain; ciples and these in turn gave witness of the resurrection that the one sacrifice of his holy body for all the sins of the Lord Jesus with great power. They went every of humanity had not failed of its purpose; and that his where telling the priceless truth that Christ was risen. death, the cross and the grave were not the end. Easter, To them the resurrection of Jesus was vastly more than the open tomb, confirms the forgiveness of every sin. an event only to be commemorated. It was a message “God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in to be heralded into all the world, to every person. His Son,” says John. Praise God, sin is removed and “Risen from the dead.” What a solemn fact is death! the paralyzing grip of death had been broken. It is a stern reality, an ugly intrusion that cannot be Easter gives every believer the assurance of his own lightly pushed aside. The death of Jesus was not a tri resurrection and immortality. “For if we believe that vial matter to the disciples. They had placed much con Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep fidence in him. They had forsaken all to follow him. A in Jesus will God bring with him.” (1 Thess. 4:14) Said day after his arrest in Gethsemane they knew the worst: Jesus: “Because I live, ye shall live also.” That answers their Lord was dead on the cross, and they were scat the age long question: “If a man d:e shall he live again?" tered. Now, however, the messenger from heaven was His resurrection restored hope to the dejected disciples there to tell them: death is defeated and Christ has won and made it possible for Peter to cry cut in these words: the victory. Once more their hearts were gripped with “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus a loyalty and made stronger than ever before. With Christ which according to His abundant mercy hath be courage and holy boldness these men of God were to gotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection proclaim before the high and lowly, to princes and beg of Jesus Christ from the dead." (1 Pet. 1:3) His resur gars, the truth that “Christ is risen.” rection returns to us what sin had taken from us: hope The resurrection of Christ is the unquenchable light and life. Yes, with Jesus at the open tomb every be and hope of the Christian faith. The belief that Jesus liever may have cheer and comfort even in the hour of had risen from the dead accounts for the mighty trans darkest sorrow when the final call comes to us. Know formation of the disciples which now took place. And ing Christ we can live hopefully and cheerfully what what a change that was! The scattered and dispirited ever the number of our days might be—many or few. band of followers now become changed men filled with Through Christ the victory is still ours. joy and gladness. The belief that Christ died on the The glorious fact—“He is risen!”—'also assures every cross and was buried in the garden tomb of Joseph of believer of all needed power for life and service. In the Arimathea, and that he rose again from the dead is the Bible there are two standards by which God's power is very core and cornerstone of our Christian faith. The gauged. In the Old Testament, God’s power is measured resurrection of our Lord is vitally connected with all the according to the power by which he brought Israel out realities which relate to his person and work and to the of Egypt. (Micah 7:15) In the New Testament, the unit life of his followers. of measurement of God’s power “is according to the It is this truth that gives power and meaning to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in preaching of the glorious Gospel of our blessed Savior. Christ . when he raised him from the dead.” If any Only recall to your mind 1 Corinthians 15:14,15: “If man would like to know what God is able to do for him Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your and through him, then let him go back to the open tomb faith is vain.” Shall we wonder, then, that Paul, when and hear the heavenly messenger say once more to him: writing on the meaning of Christ’s triumph over the “He is not here! He is risen!” Let him hear Jesus say tomb, says that he was “declared to be the Son of God to him: “All power is given unto me in heaven and on with power by the resurrection from the dead”? Put earth .