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Cdver Load of hard wood logs. Main«». Photography: United States Forest Service. 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 Gingericn J. G. Rempel N. van der Zijpp
Vol. XI January, 1956 No. 1
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Contributors ------2 The Gospel Herald ------Jacob Sudermann 3 Definition ------Jacob Sudermann 3 When Love Stepped Down ------Harold Bidler 3 Concert of the Angels ------Daniel Wohlgemuth 4 Old Books from a Musty Corner ------_ 4_5 Peace on the Molotschna ------Johann H. Janzen 6 From the Rodolphe Petter Collection ------6-7 Relief Workers after World War I ------8 Memorial — Denkschrift ------8-9 Mennonite Singers on Adventurous Choir Trip - H. A. Fast 10 A Christian Community Is Born ------Bernhard Bargen 13 Mennonites and Whaling ------17 A Transplanted Witmarsum ------J. S. Postma 19 The Story of a Mill ------Ida Plank Yoder 21 In the California Gold Rush ------Cornelius J. Dyck 25 Progress through Study Conferences ------J. W. Fretz 28 Why I Am a Mennonite ------Wm. Yake 30 Some Publications on Anabaptist-Mennonites, 1955 - Cornelius Krahn 31 Books in Review - H. J. Stucky, Mrs. P. S. Goertz, J. W. Fretz, Cornelius Krahn 32 Index: 1946-55. Ten Years of Mennonite Life - - 33 Mennonite Life Dinner 1955 ------Inside Back Cover Readers’ Response to Tenth Anniversary ----- Inside Back Cover Index: 1946-1955. See pages 33-48 in this issue.
Mennonite Life is an illustrated Quarterly magazine published in January, April. July and October by Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas. Entered as second-class matter December 20, 19-10, at the post office at North Newton, Kansas, under the Act of March ’ 3,' 1S79 Contnibuton& L a t k l & Ü 4 4 u e
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CORNELIUS KRAHN, director of Bethel College Historical Library and editor of M ennonife Life. IDA PLANK YODER, homemaker and writer, Newton, Kansas, member of Kansas Author's Club, writes for many journals. BERNHARD BARGEN teaches Business, Bethel College, spent three weeks at Woodcrest Bruderhof, New York. J. W. FRETZ, professor of Sociology, Bethel College, and assistant editor of Mennonife Life.
CORNELIUS J. DYCK, University of Chicago, former relief worker, and pastor of Zion Mennonite Church, Elbing, Kansas. H. A. FAST, director of public service and professor of Bible, made the arrangements for the choir tour. IACOB SUDERMANN teaches German, University of Indiana, and writes for various Mennonite periodicals.
NOT SHOWN HAROLD BULLER, pastor of Bethel College Mennonite Church, was M.C.C. relief worker in Berlin and other places. I. S. POSTMA, minister and educator, formerly The Netherlands, Paraguay, now Witmarsum, Brazil. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Photos, p. 5, McCormick-Armstrong; p. 7, Wichita Eagle; p. 11, German Tourist Information Office; p. 16 Arox Photo Studio; inside back cover, Mennonite Weekly Review.
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We have fastened on its warm breast (Elfe d>nsprl ülcralü Convulsively, tenaciously By JACOB SUDERMANN Waiting for the new flow, Waiting so long! A crier A cry in the wilderness! He conies, Why in the wildernessf Hallelujah, He comes! Why in the desolate placesf In the dry valleys, To be heard: Locked in dry silence To beat against no barriers The dry bones stir, Of sound, The cactus buds, To take wing in all directions, The Trumpeter sounds To find the listening ears The day of incorruption. Cupped for the word of life— Drowned out long since, Drowned in the sonorous Diapason of death.
But the cry, The voice filters through: Heffmftmt Make straight, By JACOB SUDERMANN Make straight The way of the Lord! And this is death: Compassion’s Jesus fingers We have waited so long retying deft the severed Standing in the withering blast; cord of birth; a drifting We are dried shapes out of petulant turbulence Clinging like sere leaves like patterned, frosted flake To life’s source, into a landscape blanketed Held by slender stems with breathing peace; No longer succulent, where all the facefull angularities Shrunken, clinging. of life are symphonized in one closed, infinite While faith wrestles reason, cathedral keep, and Love grows cold, shafting, prismatic colors Still, hope springs eternal! focus on a throne of healing light.
U U f y e tt i & t n t g 5 3 o u m
By HAROLD BULLER
In cowering fear the shadowy forms of men The Eye of God beheld. Bent low to hide The Heart of Heaven wept. For night was here. The Hand of Hope reached forth From out each stricken heart To plant the Star of Morn, There poured the tide of doubt And from its palm there flowed the dawn. That rose, with dark intent, Then Love stepped to the earth To kill. And Christ was born.
JANUARY 1956 (Concert of tl7ß Angels. — Sugelkonsert.
By Daniel Whlgemuth, Gundersheim, Kr. Worms, Germany
This well-known artist whose art has been featured in Mennonife Life (Jan. 1954), presents a Puttenbild. A num ber of paintings of this type of art have been added to the D. Wohlgemuth Collection which is on display in the Bethel College Historical Library. On April 17, 1956, Daniel Wohlgemuth will observe his 80th birthday for which occasion his biography and some 25 of his best paintings and works of art will be reproduced in book form. This souvenir can be obtained for S3 through M ennonife Life.
(«Dlö Honks from a üföixstij Corner
A glimpse into the vault of the Bethel College Histori to the plains of America. One copy has already reached cal Library takes one, as it v/ere by means of a magic the library through the courtesy of missionary Alfred Wiebe. carpet, into ancient times. We see books printed and used On this picture we see, in the center, one of the largest some three to four hundred years ago. Some are Bibles books, with a torn back. It is nearly three hundred years which were published in the days of the Reformation in old and has been used much, as can be seen. The covers Switzerland or in the Low Countries and used particularly consist of leather-covered oak boards, and the binding is by the early Anabaptists so that they became known as excellent. This is one of the earliest Dutch editions of the "Anabaptist Bibles." There is, for example, the Froschauer Martyr's Mirror, relating the story of suffering and cour Bible of Ziirich with the date on it ” 1536." It w as brought age, faith and martyrdom of the sixteenth century Ana along by the Swiss Mennonites who came to this country baptists. The excellent illustrations by Jan Luiken alone some one hundred to two hundred years ago, and has make this a very valuable item. Formerly this book was since found its way into the Historical Library. Or there is the so-called Biestkens Bible which originated at about second to the Bible in many Mennonite homes; today ihe same time in the Low Countries and which was in use there is almost a complete unawareness of this former among the Dutch speaking Mennonites. Biestkens printed classic in devotional .^Literature, Should it not be possible many editions for them. Some copies were taken from to prepare and distribute a popular small illustrated Holland to Prussia, from Prussia to Russia and from Russia edition of it with success?
A. MENNONITF. LIFE ’•nr “ I ß e a t z m t t t y e im nlotaclyna”
BY JOHANN HEINRICH JANZEN ( 1868-1917)
Johann H. Janzen was an educator and minister of Gnadenfeld, Molotschna, South Russia, and one of the first artists among the Mennonites who distinguished himself. His drawings and oil paintings deal mostly with the Molotsch na landscape. He illustrated his brother’s, Jacob H. Janzen's book, Denn meine Augen haben Deinen Heiland gesehen (1910). A number of oil paintings by the artist are in the possession of the family of the late Jacob H. Janzen, Water loo, Ontario. See also “The Months of the Year" in Oct. 1951 issue of Mennonile Life (p. 13).
Jffrmtt ttje fRoöolptje Peiter Collection 'm ■• >
The Rodolphe Petter Collection on display in the Bethel In the show case to the left we see the two beautifully College Historical Library through the courtesy of Mrs. beaded moccasins which were given to Rodolphe Petter by Rodolphe Petter, contains many of the products of the life Chief Standingelk (Vohokass). The large beaded bag work of Rodolphe Petter, as well as a significant Indian col (right) was given to Rodolphe Petter at a Christmas lection of the Cheyennes. In the background we see an celebration. ancient symbolical skin writing no longer understood by present-day Cheyennes. It was made by an old woman. The Rodolphe Petter Collection has been on display in J Missionary Petter, at that time, was not yet sufficiently the Bethel College Historical Library for some time and versed in the Cheyenne language to get the meaning direct has been admired by many hundreds of visitors from all ly from her. It represented an old Indian's philosophy of life. over the United States and abroad. Mrs. Petter, Lame Deer, The heavily beaded Indian cradle was given to the late Montana, is writing the very interesting life story of her Rodolphe Petter and has been on display at the Sesquicen- late husband (see also the article “How I Became a tennial Exposition, Philadelphia. Missionary," January 1955).
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Ülelief iün rk ers a fter 333oriö Ü3ar 1 (Front) B. H. Unruh, member of Studienkommission; C. E. Krehbiel; relief worker; (rear) P. C. Hiebert, relief worker; Iahann J. Esau and Alexander Fast, both from Russia. B. H. Unruh and Johann J. Esau were members of the Studien kommission from Russia to investigate possibilities of migration. C. E. Krehbiel and P. C. Hiebert were on their way to Russia to do relief work. This was a meeting of the five men prior to the departure of ICrehbiel and Hiebert to Russia via Constantinople.
i ü e n u m a l — > ©a the fHeunomtes tn America from flic fRennomtrs in tlje Ukraine. The great destruction of the twentieth century, introduced and aggravated by ithe World War, has caused a disastrous downfall in the economic and cultural life in the largest part of this continent and because of the continuing drought in the Ukraine has taken on unusually vicious forms. A virtual flood of hate and blood, of suffering and death, of starvation and misery has been loosed in the land during recent years. But out of this howling storm of misery there shine like lighthouses on the sea, the deeds of love and mercy that presently unfolded themselves through relief efforts. They show that the torch of true humanity is being continually lit by the eternal love of God. Dear Brethren! Your relief efforts were and are a light that shines in the dark ness. Through your deeds you have ideally illustrated a Mennonite principle. Of that we are grateful witnesses! You have, however, done more. Through your tractor aid you have also furthered in a remarkable way our native belief in the virtues of agriculture. This is a deed of historic significance in the context of Mennonite history; indeed may prove to be of general historical importance. For this latter deed may signify nothing less than a radical change in our economic life. Even as your relief food has strengthened us so will this deed also be and remain a blessing for us. Accept, therefore, the accompany ing medal as a token of our love and recognition, our regard and gratitude. May it convey to future generations the knowledge of how brethren and Christians in need * deal with each other! And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us [and you]; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it (Ps. J 90:17.) Given at Ohrloff Chairman of the Society of the Dec. 6, 1922 Mennonites: B. B. Janz Vice-Chairman: Ph. Cornies O rig in a l M e m o ria l (right) and modal arc now located in Treasurer: H. Bartel Bethel College Historical Library. Secretary: A. Fast
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BY H. A. FAST Walter Hohmann (left) and choir members who made the European concert tour, 1955, at Bethel College before their departure.
HE “Mennonite Singers” returned on August ship, mutual understanding and respect, and it achieved 29 in high spirits from a good-will concert tour just that. T of European cities. The tour was rich in sight This was the second European concert tour under seeing experiences but that wasn’t what impressed the taken by the Bethel College Choir. The immediate oc choir members most. Most memorable was the marvel casion for the first tour was the Fifth Mennonite ous reception they got everywhere in their concerts and World Conference held at Basel, Switzerland in 1952, the wonderful hospitality they received in private but the vision of its possibilities and meaning was much homes. It was to be a good-will tour fostering friend older. Mennonite Central Committee relief workers
The Mennonite Singers of Bethel College in the Koorkerk of Middelburg, The Netherlands, July 11'pjl;^ 5-p Z C
10 MENNONITE LIFE ministering “in the name of Christ" had in post war years established bonds of friendship through this service of love and the gifts of food and clothing. Would not the visit of a Mennonite college choir help to deepen and establish more firmly these relationships of friendship and brotherhood between European and American Mennonite groups? The unique opportunity of the fii'st Mennonite World Conference after the close of World War II helped to ripen and bring to decisive action the vision of a good-will concert tour by a group of Mennonite college singers. The first concert tour, lasting only a month, was entirely too short for so long a trip but the reactions from the churches and the Basel conference were so The bus with the Mennonite Singers, 1955, stopped in overwhelmingly favorable and the requests for a re Holland and the choir members are investigating one of turn visit of longer duration so insistent and urgent that the dikes. a second concert tour was arranged this past summer. The choir consisted of twenty-four voices under the Bielefeld, Espelkamp, Bremen and Emden. From July direction of Walter H. Hohmann. Between June 19, when 1 to 15 they gave daily concerts in Holland, singing in they landed at Bremerhaven, Germany, until they em smaller communities as well as in larger cities like barked again for home on August 16 from Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hilversum, Delft, Leiden, Arnhem and they were giving almost daily concerts, Saturdays ex Vlissingen. Through the latter half of July they traveled cepted, with approximately a week reserved for sight through Germany, singing in centers like Krefeld, Wup seeing. They spent June 19 to 30 in North Germany perthal, Frankfurt, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Heil- giving concerts in Hamburg, Kiel, Hannover, Berlin, bronn, Stuttgart, Backnang and Munich. From August 1 to 5 they were in Alsace, France, visiting Mennonite centers like Wissembourg, Colmar, Mulhouse, Altkirch, and Montbeliard. They spent August 7 to 12 in Switzer land giving two concerts in the Mennonite churches of the Jura Mountains and a concert each in the cities of Bern and Basel. From there they returned via Paris and Brussels to Rotterdam for the return ocean voyage. Most of these concerts were given in Mennonite churches but the audiences were quite representative of the communities. A number of concerts in larger cities were given in large Lutheran churches where the attendance also was very good and the response of the best. In several cities in Germany, Holland and Switzer land, recordings were made which were broadcast over Choir members durig fheir embarkation in Montreal, Canada. the radio so that the audience which benefitted from this concert tour was much larger than the one actually their “mastery of a difficult art” but wonders whether in attendance at concerts. it carried an equal spiritual warmth and convincing The program of the choir consisted of a well-selected Christian witness. and varied repertoire of sacred music, including great In contrast a Swiss Mennonite teacher who had pret compositions by European composers and selections from ty much lost contact with the church, exclaimed: “That American composers and from Negro spirituals. The evening was for me a genuine renewal of faith." comments of listeners and the reports in newspapers in Various people expressed surprise that a choir of dicated that audiences appreciated most the selections young amateur, i.e. non-professional, singers could show by American composers with perhaps special preference such excellent training, discipline, and musicianship. for the Negro spirituals, which are not widely known in They praise the "splendid, youthful, well-trained voices" European circles. of the singers. Music critics and private letters point out that au A Berlin music critic lauded their "perfect, almost diences were deeply moved and inspired by the worship classic, and yet heartfelt" rendition of Negro spirituals ful character of the programs. Other comments com and other American church music as being “full of sim plimented the choir and its director on the high quali plicity and humility, full of surrender and sincerity.” ty of their singing, training and discipline. We quote A Heilbronn paper exclaimed: “One could sense that some sample comments from the European press and songs springing from deep Christian conviction can from personal letters. truly bring praise and honor to God and can revitalize A French Mennonite paper, Christ Seal, speaks of faith and spiritually strengthen the hearers. This festive their concert as an “artistic revelation” and admires (Continued on page IS)
Bethel College choir undor the diroction of Walter Hohmann in Europe, ready for a concert. Margot Stauffer accompanied the choir in Germany.
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1 T ht wee W eeks iss a Stntderhof A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IS BORN BY BERNHARD BARGEN cc T UST what do you mean by ‘community’?” stay as long as he likes—no charges. Besides, he finds I This is the oft-repeated question of visitors at out shortly why so many flies: the terrific pressure of J Woodcrest—a Bruderhof which was begun in building and shortness of cash have prevented putting 1954, ninety miles up the Hudson River, north of New in screens. York City. For visitors are welcome, and they come from “Now, you wash up and rest a bit, and later we’ll far and near to see for themselves how people live “in have supper, after the children have had theirs," says community.” Stanley, as he leaves you to yourself. You must admit, “We are always happy for visitors,” the members of however, the bed is nicely made, the room is tidy; and this community tell you, “for our main purpose for be though it’s a hot summer day in New York, still your ing is to make known our way of life." room really looks and feels cool and pleasant—screens Woodcrest is the name of the community, a rocky or no screens—and actually the flies aren’t quite so bad knoll of about ninety-six acres of woody growth, at the as they at first seemed. Even they are friendly! What a foot of the Catskill Mountains, four miles west of the different atmosphere from Manhattan Island, which you Hudson. Here a group of about 150 persons, about half left only three hours ago! of them adults, are living a life of complete sharing, Your room may be one of perhaps eight or ten like seeking as much as possible to establish a way of life in it in a remodelled chicken house, now called the Orchard harmony with the New Testament concept of the House. Presently, you find you have neighbors: “Howdy, church, resolving where possible some of the difficult my name’s Dodd—I’m from Toledo, Ohio, consulting conflicts of modern society, and to find increasingly the psychologist—guest here myself; and this is Mrs. Dodd; coming of the Kingdom of God in their midst. we just returned from an afternoon swim down at the river. Will be getting ready for supper, now; and we’ll The Glad Hand be seein’ you there.” A station wagon is waiting at the intersection where the bus from New York drops the visitor, and on The Common Meal the way Stanley Fletcher, driving you up the hill, points Back in the dining room, the guest wondei-s: Where out at the turn of the rocky road the factory shops, do they all come from? Mostly young couples, seems “which we’ll show you later,” and a bit later pulls up to like, eh? Dress just like ordinary people. Strange, there’s the carriage house. It was formerly a real carriage one barefooted. Odd, to see some of the women in ordin house in the days when all this was a lovely estate. ary clothes and others in long dresses; what’s the Now, in the hands of the Bruderhof (Society of Broth scheme, you wonder. ers, for those who insist on the English), it has been re And now, everyone seated around the long tables, modelled into the main dining room, where common a silence falls over all, and long you wait for grace to meals are served. The visitor is brought in; and as the be said; but only that rapt silence, those friendly, open suit cases are set down, Stanley asks, “Now, then, be faces—smiling as though they expected God to speak to fore we take you to your room, what’ll you have: coffee, them in the face of their neighbor—then, presently, the iced tea, lemonade?” sound of tableware, as eating begins, and And as the guest sips the lemonade, he looks around. A voice: Long tables, odd chairs—no two alike—and some of “We are happy to have with us today, as guest,” them broken. Still, the place looks clean and tidy— and you hear your name, “and we are glad to know that nice drapes, pretty color combinations. How pleasantly he is going to be with us for a month or so. I have here, happy these people all seem to be—sort of relaxed. also, some letters, from Paraguay, which you will en “Yes, there’s a bit of fog this afternoon over the moun joy ...” tains, but often on perfectly clear days you can see five While he reads various letters, the meal proceeds, different ranges of the Catskills—we think it’s a wonder tables being waited on by men. You learn only later ful view from this window!” that that is done to rest the women a bit: women make the meal, men serve it. A simple meal: leaf lettuce, “Oh, for a Fly Swatter!” dark bread and butter, milk, and raisin pudding. “No “So this is my room,” thinks the visitor. “Why, there dessert,” you find yourself saying, “but a good meal— must be a hundred-fifty flies. What? no window-screen, filling.” even?” But he doesn’t say it; he’s a guest; and he may While visiting at the table is not forbidden, there is
JANUARY 19 5 6 13 little talking. You don’t ask for something to be passed, you whisper: so that everyone can hear the reading. At other meals, later, you’ll find that they may read a chapter from Bonhoeffer’s letters from his Nazi prison; or there’ll be a news report including the latest base ball scores! Another day the children are brought in to play, on the piano, some of the new pieces they have learned. Incidentally, no clapping: “We are trying not to foster the ego; there are other ways of showing our commendation.” On another occasion, at mealtime, a special biography of Albert Einstein had been prepared, and presented in several installments, several days apart. Class and teacher at the Woodcrest Bruderhof, New York. Seeing both adults and the children above the third grade listening attentively to such offerings during the There is a “work distributor” for men and one for mealtime makes one thoughtful. What, one asks him women. Women work in the kitchen, the laundry, the self, must be the long-run effects of this pattern of com sewing room, the nursery and school, house maintenance munity life? work, shop, or office. Men work in the factory, gardens, “But, Where Are the Children? teach school, tutor young persons for college, do yard Children under the third grade have had their meal work and car maintenance, build houses, on construc served earlier. Take the evening meal, for example: By tion of and remodeling of living quarters, and so on. At 7:15 o’clock the smaller ones are about ready for bed. Woodcrest the special industry in the factory is manu As the families live in small apartments in various facturing educational toys—toy trains, ships, teeter- buildings about the grounds, one woman for each house totters, swings, cut-out animals of wood, slide boards >s appointed each meal as the “house watch” for that and blocks—all precision made with fine machinery and meal. She goes about the various apartments in that equipment. house continuously, with flashlight as the night advanc- These toys constitute the main source of income. °s, to make sure that the children ai*e all in order. This They are well made, approved by educational agencies relieves all the other mothers for relaxed participation as fully meeting all specifications. They sell well to in the common meals and in the frequent meetings churches and schools under the trade-name of “Com which often follow. munity Playthings.” From the sale of these toys comes These children! What relaxed faces, quiet behavior, the income for the purchase of those things which the freedom from tantrums! But, naturally, enfolded as Bruderhof cannot raise themselves, and for expenses of they are in the love of the entire community, secure in operation: food, light, gas and oil, lumber for the toys, home and play, how could they or need they be else? and for the other costs of administration, travel, and During the day—both winter and summer—they are missionary work. in school. The Bruderhof has its own school, manned by This living from a common purse is something! The members of the community, and the work of the com visitor would often ask, “But suppose some one needs, munity—cost of feeding the chickens, profits from the say, a pair of shoes. Must he ask the steward for every production of eggs, milk production by the goats, etc.— little purchase?” constitute some of the arithmetic materials. Sewing “Surely, and what’s wrong with that?” is their an baby dresses for the new babies soon to arrive was swer. a summer project for the older girls. These children “Look,” says the visitor, “you can’t go on like that, live with their teachers—daily, at mealtime, and in re letting everyone have anything he asks for, can you?” creation, as their companions. “No, of course not." They go on to explain: “It’s just like in any family: if at all possible, you do it; but if The Common Purse you can’t, you can’t. We soon learn about what we can Persons who become members of the Bruderhof reasonably ask for and how often!” bring all they possess to the common purse. Land, For both children and adults this becomes a great houses, businesses, insurance, household goods—every discipline in community living, of mutual interdepen thing. Henceforth, no one calls "anything his own.” dence, of genuine participation in the life: its problems, Now, the visitor sees such a radiant joy on the faces its limitations, its basic values. of everyone that he naturally wonders what is-back of it all. No one gets paid in money for anything he does, Organization but everyone has his work—lots of it. Community is no Very little of it, and hardly ever obvious, yet con easy life, they tell you; it is a life of continuous self stantly at work is the basic organization of this beehive giving. It is hard, they say, but it is “so rewarding that of activity. On the economic side it may be observed no one would think of going back to the old life.” that the Brotherhood (members only) have frequent
14 MENNONITE LIFE meetings—both men and women, single and married—at which meetings the financial, economic problems are discussed; but also other things pertaining to the life, inner and outer, are discussed. One of such problems is that of housing. The many, many requests of visitors to come there for shorter or longer periods of time, combined with the inflexible rule of hospitality that no visitor shall ever be turned down, raises some problems: "Where shall we put our guests?’’ "And how shall we feed them, since none of them are asked to pay in cash anything for either board or room?" to say nothing of many other types of problems. On the spiritual side is the necessity that the inner Bruderhof with dining room, kitchen, apartments and life of the community remains clear, for which the en nursery. tire group must bear the responsibility, to be sure. One person is designated as the Servant of the Word meeting is to meet God! Second, a guest must have (Diener am Wort), who, assisted by several so-called nothing against any member of the Brotherhood, no Witness Brothers, works intimately with all members grievance nor cxiticism. If he has, that must have been and the work of the community, to get the “feel of cleared up before coming to the meeting. Scripture things,” of problems and questions as they arise. The teaches that, if when one comes to the altar and there spiritual life of the community centers in the so-called remembers that he “hath aught against his neighbor, he Gemeindestunde, open to members, novices, and to such shall leave his gift and first be reconciled to his broth- guests as have asked for and been given permission to ex*." attend it. As there are conditions for guests to meet, such as Some Conditions a willingness to help with the work of the community At every point one becomes increasingly aware that and eax*nestly to seek a better way of life, so there are this is disciplined living. There's a reason for this quiet, conditions, also, for the person who wants to become a orderly, happy life; and it has its roots in the spiritual novice, looking toward ultimately becoming a full mem commitments and conditions which undergird it. ber. At a meeting of the household such novices, having Take that business of guests not coming to Ge been accepted by the Bx*otherhood earlier, take solemn meindestunde. What's back of that? “We believe," they vows: 1. That they will give to the Bx*othex*hood all that say, “that basically the solution to all problems of living they own or ever will own; 2. Live in complete self comes from God. The relationship between members and lessness for the Community Church of Christ; 3. Go between the Brotherhood assembled in a meeting of where the Brothex-hood feels that he or she may be prayer to God is a very intimate relationship, and it is most needed in the Bruderhof cix*cle; 4. Give criticism not to be polluted with shallow curiosity, or with philo where needed and accept criticism where offered, in sophical contentiousness. We want to keep it pure. Until the spii’it of love and meekness. we have been convinced by the life which a guest lives in When, after a period as a novice, such a person final our midst that he meets two conditions, we feel that his ly asks for baptism, he participates for a pexiod of time attendance should be somewhat postponed.” in a deep search and px’epax’ation for the new life before "And these conditions are?” him, and to assure himself completely that he is fully “Fix*st, you must believe that help comes fx-om God. and completely yielding himself to the church. If a guest does not believe that, basically, there’s no use in coming to the meeting. The whole purpose of the Who, for Example? Naturally, the visitor wants to know something Bruderhof members enjoy a common meal in dining hall. about the background of these people. What is it that takes hold of them that they will sell all they own, to cx'oss the continent or the ocean in cases, to take up this way of life? Here, for example, is a former owner of a steel plant; or an engineer from Boeing’s at Seattle; or a lawyer from Philadelphia; or a druggiest-phannacist; or a college teacher. The visitor will meet a former man ager of a wholesale co-operative in Canada; and he may find among those who are guests like himself an instructor of engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsbux-gh, or a tool-and-die-maker fi*om one of the automobile plants in Detroit.
JANUARY 1956 15 Some of these have been former members of tra shady stories, no derogation. The life must convince-- ditional churches—Baptist, Methodist, Quaker—or of And it does! The movement is growing. Wooderest, none. Some were humanists, liberals, agnostics, atheists. back in 1954 when it was begun, thought they should The amazing thing is that these former agnostics and plan for a maximum of 70 persons; they are already liberals—from all backgrounds—are now true believers housing 150 (even ISO, on peak week-ends, including in the Community Church of Christ—in the way of love, visitors), and in the middle of August, 1955, there sharing, self-giving. were 50 guests who had already written in advance for “Tell me,” says the visitor, “why it is that, though reservations for longer or shorter periods of time. it is perfectly obvious that you have a deep spiritual ground upon which this fellowship rests, that the Ser “Is This Escapism?” mon on the Mount in its most literal interpretation Probably no question about the Bruderhof is asked seems to be basic, yet you seemingly seldom refer to it more frequently than this: "Isn’t this, after all, just outside of your Gemeindestunde.” a way to escape the problems of everyday life?” They have their reasons: "You see, among the many "After all,” asked one college senior visiting there a I visitors who come to us there are many who have had day or two from a college in Texas, "just what is the very difficult experience with the church of their Bruderhof answer to the problems which plague society respective backgrounds, and with the particular inter today: juvenile delinquency, old age, the transient pretation of Scripture. They come, therefore, with very- worker, the problem of war, the problem of the in strong prejudices along certain lines. We do not wish dustrial workers on the monotonous assembly line, or to inflame these prejudices with talk, with quoting the boom-or-bust business cycles? Are you just going Scriptures, and with argument, until they have first to refuse to deal with such problems by going off here, seen our life. It must be the life that convinces, not to Wooderest, where you don’t have to look at them?” the talk. If our life does not convince the guest, surely “We do not pretend,” answers Stanley quietly, our discussions won’t help.” who happened to be leading the guest meeting that That probably also explains why, except in the evening on the front porch of the big house, “that we Gemeindestunde, no spoken prayer is ever heard, and can solve all the problems of this world. Nor do wo why, nevertheless, the most reverent, clean, whole presume to have even ready-made answers to any of some atmosphere prevails. No cursing, no gossiping, no (Continued on page 30)
The Wooderest Bruderhof Shop where toy trains, ships, teeter-totters, swings, animals, wood blocks, etc., are made.
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1 Mennomtes and Whaling
Among the G,000 whaling and sealing expeditions undertaken by Hamburg during the seven teenth to nineteenth centuries, Mennonites played an import an t role.
Six thousand whaling and sealing expeditions to auf Walfischfang und Robbenschlag vom 17.-19. Jahr the Artie were undertaken by seamen from Hamburg, hundert. (316 pages with many illustrations.) Germany from the seventeenth to the nineteenth cen A total of fifteen Mennonite families contributed turies. Menncnite merchants and seamen also took an to the whaling enterprise in these centuries by sending important part in this enterprise in the "golden age” of out some three hundred ships in over two thousand this epoch. voyages. The families listed are Baker, Beets, Becker, These and other interesting facts are revealed in the Hiking, Goverts, de Jager, Karsdorp, Kamer, Münster, new book by Wanda Oasau, Hamburgs Grönlandfahrt Pender (Penner), Roosen, Schomaker, van der Smis-
Berend and Maria Roosen II were one of the many Mennonite families occupied with whaling. Others were Baker, Goverts, de lager, van der Smissen, etc.
JANUARY 1956 17 r '
The two ships (lelt and middle) owned by Berend Roosen II were named W ack ernd Kiaa and Vrouw M aria Elisabet.
sen, de Viieger and Willink. Wanda Oasau, the author, has worked at this book Ol' the Roosen family which made a notable con some twenty-five years. Her home is at Glückstadt tribution to whaling Mennonite Life presents the por near Hamburg. Called the “Historian of German Whal traits of Berend Roosen II and his wife, Maria Roosen. ing,” she has already written two books on this sub Two of their ships, the Vrouw Maria Elisabet and ject. From the heritage of her ancestors who were Wachend Kraa, are also shown. The Vrouw Maria Eli sailors she possesses a very extensive private collection sabet was built on the Roosen’s own dockyard, the of documents, diaries, atlasses, weapons, etc. of German Reiherstieg, pictured in the book by Oasau. whaling. The interesting story of the whaling captain, I-Iidde The book described above may be ordered through Dirks Kat, a Mennonite from Ameland, is told with Menonile Life or directly from the publisher, J. J. Aug quotations from his diary and illustrated with his por trait and his own map of the Greenland whaling and ustin, Glückstadt, Germany, for the equivalent of $7.00 sealing area. in American currency, postpaid.
EUROPEAN CONCERT TOUR gram; it probably was also a pleasant surprise to hear (Continued from page 12) an American choir of college young people sing classi cal music with finesse and understanding. hour of music therefore, was no mere concert but much The most meaningful part of the concert tour lies rather an experience of worship." in the contact with people rather than in the concert Other newspaper comments ran in a similar vein. For itself. It was thrilling to sing to large and appreciative the choir members, however, this tour with all its won European audiences but it was more thrilling to meet derful contacts and memories was an experience of a people, to get into homes and to make friends. A choir life-time, never to be forgotten. i of Christian young people singing the great hymns of Church or university choirs of this type are not com the church and mingling in informal social fellowship mon in Europe and are entirely-non-existent in Europ with people all along the way helps to build bridges of ean Mennonite circles. There are church choirs that friendship, understanding and good-will across barriers sing on occasions in local services but a Mennonite stu of nationalism, language and race. Especially valuable dent choir carefully trained for concert work does not are such contacts in building a meaningful Mennonite exist. It is therefore, something of a novelty to have a world brotherhood. The reception of the choir every Mennonite choir touring European cities and Mennonite where was most cordial and the farewell generous and churches. After hearing so much jazz in American films, warm. Repeatedly the choir was urged that they must concerts and over the "Voice of America" radio pro come again.
18 MENNONITE LIFE A Transplanted Witmarsum
By J. S. POSTMA
T IS necessary to add the word Parana to the name The old Witmarsum Mennonite Church of Brazil. Witmarsum, because this colony is the second J bearing this name in Brazil. The settlers who had Raising the money lor this transaction constituted founded it in Santa Catarina in 1930, chose this name a problem. They had to liquidate their possessions in because Witmarsum in the Dutch province Friesland Santa Catarina, but they could not do it immediately. was the birthplace of Menno Simons. Only a loan could help them. In this critical time the The first Witmarsum in Brazil existed until 1951. General Conference in North America procured private Difficulties of a religious nature between the various loans of $40,000. This brotherly help saved Witmarsum. Mennonite groups, issuing in part from North America, On June 7, 1951, the contract was signed. And almost caused the disintegration. A large number of the set at once the stream of settlers towards New-Witmarsum tlers wanted to dissolve the cooperative store. Gradually in Parana began. Financial losses entailed by the move one family after the other left the community and were tremendous, up to 50 per cent. When the colony moved on. Though they had an agreement not to sell leader, Peter Pauls, made the last land payment June to non-Mennonites, more and more settlers not in 7, 1954, seventy-four families, consisting of 43S persons, sympathy with Mennonite ideals flocked into the colony. had moved. More than fifty allotments of grounds have It was impossible to maintain typical Mennonite life not yet been occupied, although the land has been sold as it had been during twenty years. Thus it came about long ago. This is due in part to the fact that Mennonites that Mennonites left the wonderful Kraul-Valley, where from Curitiba bought allotments without intending to some two hundred families had built and organized a settle here. It is not yet clear what they will do with it. colony of which they could well be proud. They were Witmarsum has been divided into 128 allotments courageous, because during these twenty years then- of 50 or 100 hectares (125-250 acres). Each settler is existence as a community had often been threatened. allowed to plough ten hectares (25 acres). The rest is Many immigrants had lost heart in the first years lor cattle-raising. From the very beginning the making and moved to Curitiba, where economic conditions were of butter and cheese was taken up. The colony now easier, but where the struggle for religious, mental and owns a well established dairy. Once a week it exports moral independence does not seem to be successful. butter, cheese and curds to Curitiba. The sale is very Almost all the members of the Mennonite Brethren good. At the exposition, November, 1953, the products moved to Bage in Rio Grande do Sul, near the Uru got the second prize. The first prize went to the Dutch guayan border. The Free Evangelical Mennonite Church colony mentioned above, which has an experience of had been small until fifty-four members of the Menno forty-five years, while all this is new to our people, who nite Brethren joined them. They, as well as the Men- are farmers and not experienced in dairying. nonitenyemeinden, are members of the General Con Unfortunately we cannot buy enough cattle. Just ference Mennonite Church. Both General Conference now we are looking forward to a credit from the state congregations, however, were economically not strong bank for this purpose. The daily could take care of enough to resettle; but they believed it to be the only 4.000 litres daily, but last summer we came up to thing proper in the circumstances. 2.000 and in winter it fell to 1,000 litres a day. The In 1951 a cattle-breeder offered his estate, forty- Dutchmen in Carambei pay more for the milk during five miles west of Curitiba, consisting of 18,000 acres of winter-season, so it pays to buy sufficient cattle fodder. camp-land. Some ministers investigated the estate and In addition the farmers plant tomatoes, potatoes, received a good impression. The fact that a Dutch watermelons, wheat, rice, fruits and vegetables, mais colony existed in the neighborhood, living in the same and several kinds of cattle fodder. Soil is poor but res circumstances they desired for themselves, strengthen ponds to good care. The main problem of the Paraguay ed the desire to buy this area. an colonies, lack of a market, does not exist here. Curi-
JANUARY 1956 19 tiba buys all we can offer and this rapidly growing must wait a few years before we will be able to know town needs more from year to year. Of main importance whether these will be sufficient to save the younger seem to be: rice, tomatoes, watermelons and all generation for the future. kinds of berries. We are never without vegetables and The only colony in which systematic educational fruits; especially fine are the strawberries offering their work for all the youth has been carried on from the wonderful fruits lor at least seven months a year. Last very beginning is Witmarsum. A school has been found but not least, swine breeding is a good source of income. ed according to the requirements of the government bui It seems that one day it will be necessary to build also consistent with the requirements of a Christian a canning factory. There are quite a few products suited community with an old cultural tradition. This year for canning and prices on the Brazilian market are an educational program was started that is a serious good. Unfortunately our colony is not yet able to do effort, to complement the Brazilian secondary school anything in this respect. The huge losses, not only program. It is just an effort, and we may be forced for every individual, but also for the community, which to change it after having gathered experiences. But possessed several buildings and other property in Santa we try and pray that God might bless it. Catarina, have been inevitable. Life in Brazil suffers One of the finest things here is the youth work. badly under an inflation, which increased the financial One of my best impressions in all South America — burden more than 150 per cent in three years! in addition to the wonderful climate and the beautiful The foundation of the colony is sound, however. landscape—is gained through participation in youth One trip through the four villages is sufficient to as gatherings, in which no youngster is missing. They are certain that the difficulties of starting a new settlement all there. That encourages. have by no means been overcome. But with the help We need more settlers, more cattle, a better road of our Heavenly Father we trust and believe, that in to the highway (which is only four miles, but how five or ten years Witmarsum will be a strong colony horrible they are), a canning factory, a possibility to of contented and thankful people. This might be im make use of our hospital—a fine building which we are portant for all the Mennonites in Brazil. One generation not allowed to use although we do have a doctor. already received very formal education. Those who got There is more: there are stretches of land which it, got it in a Brazilian way, often enough from teachers are too wet. We arc trying to remedy this, but our suc who themselves scarcely could read and write. In cess has not yet been very impressive. There are many Curitiba especially, assimilation progressed at a start settlers not belonging to a congregation because they ling rate. The "simple” and effortless way of life among cannot forget what happened in the Kraul Valley. But the native population proved to be very attractive. But why end with this note? We hope and expect that this it is also bare of moral and mental norms. National as colony will be what the founders intended it to be: similation here also means moral and mental assimila the long sought-for possibility to regain what the Men tion; and it is difficult to see how the existing problems nonites in Brazil lost in years of terror and fear— a can be solved. At the moment there are somewhat real Mennonite community, as in the olden times in better possibilities to educate our children, but we Russia, when it was at its best.
Bibel und Pflug, published by and for all South American Mennonites, can be ordered for $1.50 through Mennonite book stores in Canada and United States.
No. 1 6 ----- ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GEMEINDE UND HAUS Jahrgang II Witmarsum, Brasilien, den 1. September 1955 "Enter dem Wort.
MENNONITE LIFE 20 The Alia Mill on the Arkansas River, Kansas, ien miles southwest of Moundridge, in its early days. The Story of a Mill
BY IDA PLANK YODER
IME brings changes to our lives, as science cated. In 1878, a brush dam was built across the river makes new discoveries and people learn new and a millrace constructed. A 23-inch water turbine pro ways of doing things. Fifty years ago, farm duced the power to operate the burr, and the machinery women in Harvey County, Kansas would have consid in the mill, above the race. This turbine rotated on a ered it a disgrace to feed their families ‘‘baker’s bread.” wooden bearing which never needed replacement during Home made bread, Zwieback, rolls and cookies were an its forty years of use. In the spring of 1885, the old important part of the menus and thousands of pounds of brush dam was removed and replaced by a hollow wood flour were used annually in farm kitchens. Not the en one, which lasted thirty-three years. It was washed bleached kind of today, but real flour, whole wheat, rye out in 1918. and graham. Bread was the staff of life and making it In 1884 Peter M. Claassen bought the Alta Mill from was an art acquired by every homemaker. The Alta Mill, its first owners, and operated it without change until located on the Little Arkansas River, eighteen miles 1898. Then he built the present three-story mill east of northwest of Newton, was an important factor in their the race, on the bank of the river. A belt transmitted lives. the power from the turbine to the machinery in the This mill has a long, colorful history. Joseph Schräg new building. A roller mill replaced the burr mill. In the and Jacob Gering bought a 12-acre mill site in 1876 and early days, a steam engine was used for additional built the first mill about where the present one is lo power in the autumn when the water was too low for
JANUARY 1956 21 The Alta Mill dam, established in 1878, had a 23-inch water turbine. In 1885 a new dam was established which was washed away in 1918. continual grinding. In 1907 a gasoline engine was added placed later by a rural mail carrier, coming from Hal to the equipment. stead. Telephone service, too, was brought to the com During burr mill days, most of the grinding was cus munity from Moundridge. tom work and some wheat was kept back for pay. Later Many people remember the Alta Mill for its park and they exchanged forty pounds of flour for one bushel of picnic grounds as well as for the flour and feed that was wheat testing fifty-seven pounds or more. made. There was an ideal picnic place south of the house, and it was always in use. Among the earliest In 1903 and 1904 floods came and high water filled campers were the John Landers and the Frank Welshs the mill basement, coming into the Claassen house. The of Newton, who honeymooned there over fifty years ago. barn washed away while boats carried the women to The ladies were sisters. Welsh brought one of his large safety. Not caring to repeat these harrowing experienc moving vans from his transfer company to use as living es, the Claassens moved to Newton, selling the mill to a quarters, and tents were set up for sleeping. Cooking corporation of farmers formed in the Moundridge Com was done in the van, and it was a real picnic. munity. There were twenty-five stockholders and Claas Dr. Axtell also made use of the place. Once it rained sen retained eight shares. He agreed to manage the mill continuously and he packed up and went home in dis for a year while training John E. and Jacob B. Stucky gust. The first major operation done by this later, re for the job. They sold the grain elevator which they op nowned surgeon, was performed on the Claassen’s kitch erated in Moundridge and each bought twenty-five en table. The mother in the home had an emergency shares in the Alta Milling Co. In 1906 they took over appendectomy, and made a fine recovery. the management, at salaries of $50 each, per month. Park visitors often teased the billy goat until he In the early years, a post office, Valentine, served the chased everyone. Once he chased some girls to the top of community from a small office in the mill, to be re a wood pile and joined them.
From far and near people came to have their flour ground at the Alta Mill. Sometimes the Alta Mill would be sur rounded by floods.
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j John E. Stuclcy, secretary of the Alla Mill, and wife. He made a trip to Colorado with this "Reo" car in 1911.
After learning their trade, the Stuclcy brothers mar sisted on sleeping in the house, so she gave them quilts ried Friesen sisters and lived happily together for a and they lay on the living room floor. number of years in the house vacated by the Claassens. The Stuclcys were all musical and had an orchestra Later, the Friesen parents lived in a small house near which was in great demand, fui’nishing music on many their daughters. occasions. They played for the camp meetings which "Those were happy days,” say the sisters. Chris were held every summer by some ministers from the Stuclcy and his wife moved to a house near the mill in East. Athletic contests were held between Bethel and 1911, and during the years there were eighteen cousins McPherson colleges, and in 1910 a debate contest. Bethel who called the place their home. They went swimming students often went to the park for a day’s outing, going every day conditions permitted, but always one mother by horse and buggy. went along to watch. There was always fishing and for a Christ Stucky had charge of the grocery store, which number of years Grandpa Friesen enjoyed it with the also handled general merchandise. Part of the building children. In winter there were skating parties for the was used as a garage and service shop for the cars whole community. Trappers came with their snug little which the Stucky brothers sold and serviced. Gas pumps tents and stoves to run trap lines along the river for a number of weeks. They cooked meals and managed to keep warm. Tragedy, too, visited the camp, when two men drowned as their boat went over the dam. One boy scout drowned while attending a scout camp. Girl scouts came every year with their leader. Mrs. Stuclcy still laughs about the time the whole troop came rushing in to her house, scared by a prowler at midnight. They in-
Jacob B. Stuclcy, president of the Alta Mill since 1913, and wife (below). The Stuclcy orchestra, 1936, Jake, John and Chris in back row and bottom picture (right).
JANUARY 1956 were added and across the road was a good blacksmith shop. In 1913 J. B. Stucky became president of the corpora tion and J. E. Stucky, secretary, positions they held as long as the mill was operated. In 1918, when the dam gave way, thousands of fish were left stranded in small pools up the river. Men fished for weeks, taking thou sands of pounds. After this, water power for the mill was discontinued because of frequent repairs to the dam and race. Power was supplied entirely by the Rumley Oil Pull engine, using a mixture of distillate and water for fuel, and oil as a cooling agent in the radiator. The millers were very busy during the boom years in the thirties, running more than one shift. This was due to the trading system used. Wheat was as low as twenty-six cents a bushel, but ten bushels of wheat were traded for seven sacks of flour. Their hand bills stated, “There is no mill that can make any better flour than this mill is making and none can make it for as low a price." Farmers came with teams and with trucks from as far west as Meade County, Kansas and south to the Oklahoma line to get a year's supply of flour and feed. They camped in the park and ate with the Stuckys. “We never knew how many there would be,” said Mrs. Jake Stucky, “sometimes twenty or more but it was a lot of fun. It was nothing unusual to bake two or three batch- Peter M. Claassen who bought the Alta Mill in 1898 and erected the present three-story building. Later he sold the mill and started the Claassen Flour Mill of Newton. This THEY SAY IT CAN NOT BE picture was taken when he was over ninety years old. DONE - - BUT WE ARE es of bread a day.” Since the store was next door, sup plies were available, and if necessary they fried a lot DOING IT. of eggs. But no one ever went hungry. “Vehicles were lined along the road side for a long EIGHT (8) SACKS OF distance, waiting their turn, making an impressive sight. O U R BEST FLOUR No one was impatient, and little boys (our own includ FOR ed) loved to accompany their fathers. One of our house 10 BUSHELS OF WHEAT guests this summer, a seventy-year old woman from or any amount at the same rate of exchange Canada, was delighted when I took her past the mill. She had never seen it though she grew up at Canton and from 1 to 50 bushels. This offer is good for her father always traded there, a distance of thirty the next 30 days or as long as feed prices miles.” stay high. The millers were honest, hard-working people, serv OUR BEST FLOUR IS N O W BET ing the community in many ways to the best of their TER THAN EVER. ability. The corporation prospered, averaging a dividend — IT IS WHITER of over twenty per cent from 1931 to 1934. — IT BAKES BETTER The mill continued operating until 1949. Changing — IT TASTES BETTER times brought less demand for custom work. Few fami lies buy flour by the fifty-pound sack today, since it is Pass the good news to your friends. Get so much simpler to buy baked goods at the store. your flour at The Alta Mill and save the Although the Alta Mill is no longer in operation, Difference memories of those busy, happy times are part of many YOURS TRULY, lives. Ask any old timer about the mill. Watch his eyes T H E ALTA MILLING CO. light up, as in a reminiscent mood he begins, "Why, yes, 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNDRIDGE, KANSAS I remember when . . .”
24 MENNONITE LIFE Ju the California (fold Kush BY CORNELIUS J. DYCK My great grandfather, Johannes Dietrich Dyck, to go to the United States. No sooner said than done. was born on December 5, 1826 in Poppau, West Prus Preparations were made immediately for his leaving. sia. His brother Dietrich and sister Katharina were Yet this became a very serious decision for him, for he older than he, Jacob and Cornelius younger. His parents was engaged to Helene Janzen of Gross Lesewitz. She were Prussian Mennonite farmers of average means, finally consented to his departure after he had prom farming some thirty-eight acres of land. Formerly they ised to return within two or three years and either bring had owned an additional sixty-three acres but lost it her to America also or settle in Prussia. Little did they during the French occupation. know at that time that they would be separated for ten long and lonely years. Many years later he wrote When Great Grandfather was Young- cf this farewell as follows: Little is known of great grandfather’s early years. He was a quiet boy but aggressive in both work and play. “On August 14, 1848 I said goodbye to her for the When he was ten years old he lost his mother but last time. We were at my brother Dietrich’s home near three years later his father married again. His first Kominke . . . I remember that day as though it were education was received under private tutelage but later only a few years ago. But 44 years have passed, my he attended the village school at Fiseherbabbke. When hair is white and she has passed from me almost five he was twelve years of age he was apprenticed to a years ago." storekeeper in Robach. He was not asked whether that In a hotel in Hamburg he met a young Saxon type of work would appeal to him or not; it had been who was also planning to go to America and they decid decided in family council that that was to be his pro ed to travel together. They booked passage on an fession and his only concern now was to see to it American ship, the Joseph Fish and set sail on August that no complaints would be heard about his conduct. 31. It was a small ship with a total of fifty passengers, Apparently he adapted himself readily, however, for of which twenty-four were Jews from Poland. Soon upon completion of his four-year apprenticeship he they passed Helgoland and were heading for the was offered the management of the concern at a yearly English Channel when suddenly a strong wind sprang salary of some 8144. up. Within a few hours it had reached storm fury and In 1844 he was baptized into the Mennonite Church the little ship was tossed to and fro like a ball on the at Ellervvald by Elder Jacob Kroeker. Young Johannes mighty waves. The captain decided that they would not was a reserved man and in his diaries we find little be able to pass through the channel in such a gale mention of many of the deeper thing that must have and so turned northward, planning to reach the open moved his heart. To him his diary seems to have been sea by sailing the northern route around Scotland. The more a chronological record of events than a secret storm continued. For days no one could go on deck friend to which he could pour out his joys and sor lest he be swept overboard by the breakers that beat rows. Yet throughout his writings there is evident over the ship. The air in the hold was stifling but no a simple, unemotional, unwavering faith in God and doors could be opened. The crying of the children, the a firm acceptance of Christ as helpei’, friend and Re wailing of the mothers and the groaning of the seasick deemer. Perhaps the calmness and assurance with which caused the best of them to become nervous. Added he met so many situations in his life, as also the great to this was the knowledge that they were among the respect that was paid to him from many quarters is northern Scottish islands and could suffer shipwreck at another evidence of his spiritual life and resources. any moment. Finally, after eighteen days of travel they During the summer of 1848, while he was visiting reached the open sea. But the storms continued even at the home of his parents, he heard that Johann on the sea. One sailor was washed overboard and one Cornies, son of the great agricultural and social re passenger was thrown against a wall of the ship with former among the South Russian Mennonites, had come such force that his leg was broken. On November 2 to Prussia on business and now was looking for some they finally spied land and disembarked in New York one to accompany him back to Russia. He visited him on the evening of the same day after having been on immediately and made arrangements to accompany him. the sea exactly two months. They were to leave within eight days. Their trip, how Two days later he was on his way up the Hudson ever, never materialized, for Cornies had found himself River to Albany and from there by canal boat to Buf a wife in the meantime and forgot all about his new falo. While on this trip his watch was stolen from him friend, Dyck. one night. From Buffalo he sailed by lake steamer for It was then that my great grandfather first decided Chicago, arriving there five days later. Chicago was a
JANUARY 1956 25 city of some 200,000 people at that time and work was Mormon town of Canesville near the Missouri River. hard to find. He spent the winter in that city, working Here he met several parties preparing to leave for the at a hotel and learning the English language. Reports West and several w'ho had just returned vowed they came drifting in of fabulous riches in the gold mines would never- try it again. They reported that forty of California but he was without money so he continued miles further to the west, near the Platte River, two with his job. parties had been completely destroyed by the Pawnee As soon as spring came he crossed Lake Michigan Indians only a few days before. All had been killed. to Milwaukee were he met several acquaintances, Unperturbed, however, he joined the group that was among them the sister of Frau Hamm at Robach for about to leave, consisting of twenty-one men, one wo whom he had worked seven years. Here he also found man, five wagons, pulled either by mules or oxen, and employment with the importing firm, Fullton. His a goodly number of saddle ponies. He bought a pair of starting salary was $30 a month. Much of his work oxen for eighty dollars but sold his w'agon. On March was on board of the company ships while they were in 19, 1850 they were ferried across the Missouri and found the harbor. One day as he was supervising the un themselves cut off from civilization, in a land where the redskin was the master. At the campfire that same loading of the ship’s cargo he suddenly saw a young * girl hurtle through the air from a bridge nearby and evening they pledged loyalty to their leader and in hand disappear in the waters of the bay. The bridge was at shakes over loaded muskets promised to stick by each least thirty feet high and the girl sank deep into the other unto death. water. Calculating approximately where she would The first few days passed without incident. For reappear again he quickly threw off his coat and boots fear of getting lost, they followed the Platte River and leaped overboard. He had been right in his calcu closely. Now and then they saw an Indian, but all lations, for when she did reappear he was only some seemed friendly. Then gradually they came into the ten feet from her and he caught her before she sank region of the Pawnees. No more Indians were seen, again. With great effort he managed to hold her head which indicated danger, and when they came to the above water until a boat arrived and rescued them. A blood-stained scene of a recent massacre, the party was doctor was at hand and she was soon revived. Next day very quiet. It was said that forty-four men had been Milwaukee papers carried the headlines: “Young Ger killed there. But nothing untoward occurred. Travel, man risks life to save drowning American girl.” The however, was very slow. Finally, on July 22 they came following day also a colored servant of the Fullton to Fort Laramie, some 750 miles west of Council Bluffs, Corp. called on him and delivered an invitation to in southeastern Wyoming. supper. He relates in his diary that he would have given It was here that he came into contact with a man a month's wages to be able to stay away from that he would never forget, Louis Mellon. He was a Cana supper, but he had to go. dian and had been a trapper for years, having had Throughout the summer of 1849 until February, little contact with civilization for some twenty-five 1850 he stayed at various places in the states of Illinois years. He was also going to California and had no ob and Wisconsin. His jobs were good, but still not good jection to great grandfather’s accompanying him. So he enough he felt, for he had promised his Helene to be sold his oxen, bought a pack mule for one hundred back in two or at most three years and he did not twenty dollars, traded his horse for a better one, re plan to return empty-handed. He listened more and stocked his supply of food and ammunition, and two more to rumors coming from the gold mines of the days later they started out together. The following West. A fever was gripping the entire population. Day day they were joined by an Irishman, James McKenny, after day news reports would come in and new parties who had three good horses and one pack mule. His would leave to try and find their fortune in the hidden company was not altogether pleasant, but the rules gold. Gradually the fever gripped him too and he decid of the frontier bade hospitality. ed to go West, come what may. Meeting- Kit Carson Travel now became very different. They slept only Crossing: the Last Frontier when it suited, and then under the open sky. For food His first plan was to go by boat by way of Panama they relied on their tea, rice and whatever game they to San Francisco, but he did not have the necessary could shoot. They crossed the Rocky Mountains at the two-hundred fifty dollars so he decided to take the south pass and without much difficulty reached Fort route across the plains. Reports claimed that few who Bridger, in the southwestern corner of Wyoming, in attempted that route survived because of the fierce In mid-August. There they rested their horses and them dian attacks but he remained undaunted. He bought a selves, having crossed what was then called "desert horse and a small wagon and began his trek wesr. of death,” a distance of some one-hundred and thirty Parties undertaking the trek usually gathered at miles in thirty-seven hours. At Fort Bridger they met Council Bluffs or St. Joseph to organize, so that was Kit Carson who gave them further counsel on the route his first destination. On March 14 he came to the little they would best take. He advised them to go in the
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3 direction of the Green River Mountains, find the Bear trembled with every storm, how it quaked with fear River and follow this in a northerly direction till they when the hurricanes roared. Auntie would say it is so would come beyond the Thomas Fork and strike the nice inside when the storm rages, but I felt the oppo route leading over the Cascade Range into the Oregon site for I thought you were on the high seas. Yes, you settlements. were right when you wrote that our lives are in the Through his frontier exploits, Christopher (Kit) hand of God . . . that has often comforted me when Carson, won for himself the title “Nestor of the Rocky anxiety and loneliness filled my breast. O my dear Mountains.” Historical records indicate that in 1850 Johannes, 1 have suffered much, very much, for the he made a successful trading trip from New Mexico to last winter rumor spread that you had been murdered Fort Laramie and Fort Bridger, which further corro by the Indians in a most horrible way. It was not borates this story's assertion of his presence in that possible for me to believe it, and yet I struggled be area at that time. tween fear and hope . . . You can imagine then with During their brief rest they restocked their depleted what joy I received your letter from Oregon and press supplies, traded in new horses and then, compass in ed it to my heart .... My dear, thank you with all my heart for the V hand, set out to find their way through the Green River Mountains just in sight. After seven days they birthday present, which I consider with fear and mel reached the Bear River, but through a three-day rain ancholy when I remember how many dangers you sub their bodies had become so numb and cold that they mitted yourself in order to get it for me . . . could barely saddle their horses. On September 1 they And now I bid you a heartfelt farewell. I hope that reached the Snake River, a tributary of the mighty these lines reach you in the best of health. O that Columbia, and rested at the little town of Fort Wall. God may keep you from all danger and bring you safely It was there that he secured in trade from the Snake to the heart of your forever faithful loving Helene . . . Indians a white four-year-old horse that was to be How often I have dreamed that you returned, but they very important to him later. were only dreams and reality is so far away. Again, a During their travel they sometimes saw as many thousand times farewell. as thirty graves by the roadside in a single day, for Yours, even unto death cholera had broken out among the travelers. He too Helene Janzen had an attack but managed to continue his journey. P.S.: 1 have written this hurriedly. I believe you From there till they had crossed the Malheur River are including some English in your letters, are you not? everything remained calm. But then there was forbod- The Gold of California Gone ing of trouble. On the morning of September 12 they found three white bodies by the trail, dead and scalped, At the mines, the life was rough and tough. The but still warm. There was trouble ahead .... law of the West was the gun. It is not lcnown how * * & long he stayed there with his partners, perhaps a year, Here ends the diary of my great grandfather which perhaps two or three. He had good luck and made begins again some ten years later in Russia. What fol plans for his return. Their gold carefully packed into lows is based upon the reminiscences contained in his the saddlebags of their packhorses he and his two later diary. He did keep a diary during his stay in Amer companions began their eastward trek. They traveled ica, but on his deathbed my father, his grandson, had to several weeks without incident. But one day, as they take those diaries and burn them before his eyes. were jogging on, they heard a shout and already the St * $ Indians were upon them. They turned and fled but They were indeed attacked by Indians but managed one of them was caught immediately, the other a short to escape. After many weary weeks they arrived in time later, and the Indians now turned upon him. But Oregon and turned south to the areas of the gold mines. his faithful white horse which he had traded was faster From Oregon he wrote a letter to his Helene in Prussia, than the rest and he managed to outrun them. His to which she responded. Her letter follows in part. companions were gone, he could not rescue them, and Gross Lesewitz, Prussia gone also was his packhorse with all the gold, the fruit December 23rd, 1851 of all his labor. But he was alive. My dearly beloved Johannes, It was clear to him that he could not go on alone. Already I was secretly hoping that instead of a So he turned his horse and headed West again—bade letter you yourself would come, but the letter too was to the mines. It must have been a weary road for very vei'y welcome, for not to hear from you, my be him. He almost despaired. He was lonely. Would he loved, for so long is the most terrible thing that could ever see his Helene again? Years later, on January happen to me. O I can feel with you, my dear Johannes, 2S, 1888, three days after his wife Helene had passed for I see from your letter that you have again not away he entered the following in his diary: received mine. Since no further letter came from you “Yes, where is the time when I struggled with my I thought you might arrive any day. O how my heart fate and with untold dangers, dared my life in the
JANUARY 1 9 5 G 27 mountains of California? Where is the time where that he brought back with him. From the record it I despaired of ever being able to return to her, where I, would seem that he only had enough to get married, sick at heart, called her name in the mountains of the trek to Russia and begin a simple existence as a West and only echoes mocked my words? O when I pioneer in that country. However, he must have brought think of those times, of how I suffered and struggled.. back some gold as well as dollars, for among his des On this second attempt he met with varying suc cendants today there are still two gold watch chains, cesses. That he did not strike it rich is evident from the several lockets and one gold watch of the original gold fact that he stayed in that area for about four years. It which he himself mined. is doubtful whether he continued in the gold mines He arrived home in Prussia in the fall of 185S. for this entire period, for he was restless and had a During all these ten long years Helene had been faith great desire for adventure. It was a rough life. One ful to him. He wrote in his diary, “such separation must morning he awoke to find that his partner had been be endured in order to be understood." They were mar murdered. He had been lying only a few feet from ried shortly after his return. Of his homecoming and him, guarding their possesions. Now his partner was their wedding he wrote as follows: dead and all possessions, including their store of gold, "We had promised to be true to one another, but in I was gone. Eventually, however, he accumulated enough those days we little knew what pain and sorrow and wealth to again plan for his return home. It is not what tears were waiting for us before we should again clear how he went to New York but indications are be reunited after ten years. And what a reunion! I re that he trekked across the continent in the same way member our wedding day as though it were yesterday. he had come. (Written 30 years later, in 1888) .... And now we Very little is known about the amount of wealth were united!"
Progress through Study Conferences
by j . w . f r e t z
ITHIN the past fifteen years a significant cational, economic, social and religious problems facing movement has emei'ged among the Mennonites Mennonites. W of America. It is the practice of examining In 1945 the Committee on Economic and Social Re major problems within the various branches of the lations of the (Old) Mennonite Church held its first an church by means of study conferences. These conferen nual study conference. Since that time ten conferences ces are generally from one to three days in length. They have been held, culminating in the 1955 Conference on may be sponsored unofficially by a group of interested Christian Race Relations. This conference frankly faced laymen, by an auxiliary committee or board of the the attitude of Mennonites toward other i*aces, a prob church, or by official conference action. They may even lem which has been accented by virtue of an intensive be the result of inter-Mennonite group decision under mission program at home and abroad. An interesting as the framework of the Mennonite Central Committee. pect of this conference were the addresses delivered by These conferences are significant because of the sum several non-Mennonite Christian experts who were in total effect they come to have in shaping the thinking vited to discuss the Christian implications of race re and practice of the Mennonite churches and conferences lations. Such topics as the following were discussed: or even of the entire Mennonite body. The scriptural teachings on race relations, the progress in race relations in the United States, the social and Early Conferences psychological aspects of prejudices and discrimination, In December, 1941, an inter-Mennonite group of lay the question of how race relations can be improved men planned and held a one-day conference on Mennon among Mennonites, and general questions pertaining to ite sociology in Chicago. This exploratory study strengthening Christian fellowship among the redeemed conference developed into what has come to of all races. Not. only were topics of significance dis be the well-known Conference on Mennonite Cul cussed, but a splendid spirit of good will, of honest in tural Problems, which has had eleven annual and quiry and of serious intention was manifested. The dis bi-annual sessions since. It is presently sponsored by the cussions of this conference were not expressions of of Council of Mennonite and Affiliated Colleges and has re ficial Old Mennonite policy, nevertheless, the effect sulted in the discussion of a large number of major edu of the discussions and the clarity of the views expressed
28 MENNONITE LIFE cannot help but significantly influence the official views held at Hillsboro, Kansas on April 15 and 16, 1955. It of that body in time to come. was sponsored jointly by the Board of Christian Service of the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Peace Conferences Educational Committee of the Western District Confer A series of study conferences throughout the United ence. Farmers, merchants, auto and implement dealers, States and Canada have been held on the subject of industrialists, teachers and other occupations were rep peace. The earliest of these general peace conferences resented in the sessions. The purpose of the conference was held at Winona Lake, Indiana, in 1950. It was was to think through the Christian implications and sponsored by the peace section of the Mennonite Cen ethical dilemmas posed by modern business practices and tral Committee. This four-day conference allowed ample to explore a possible Christian framework which could time for the reading of papers prepared in advance and permit further economic growth and development. The the rather thorough discussion of these papers and the conference proved highly stimulating and exceedingly subject matter therein. Again the conference did not profitable. It was a new venture for all present and bind the various Mennonite groups, yet it set into mo created a desire for further conferences and group dis tion a discussion throughout the various Mennonite cussions of this type. Undoubtedly out of this conference churches on matters pertaining to the peace position. will come further conferences and discussions centering around the Christian concept of vocation in business. One indirect result was the setting up of a General Conference peace study session held at the Eden Men nonite Church in Moundridge, Kansas, in 1953. In this Church Concept and Organization conference policies were discussed, resolutions formulat Another significant 1955 conference was that of ed and presented for official adoption at the triennial Church Organization Administration sponsored by the session of the General Conference in August, 1953. Ministerial Committee of the (Old) Mennonite General The Historic Peace Church Conference of Ontario Conference. This was held in Chicago on March 28 and each year holds a session in which the theme of peace is 29. At this session the patterns of organization within central. It is informative and inspirational in nature. the (Old) Mennonite Church were discussed and evalu The emphasis is perhaps more on inspiration than on in ated. Not only were the New Testament patterns studied formation since this conference is not organized as a but suggested conclusions as a goal for the future of study conference. Conferences of a similar nature ai-e the Mennonite Church were also discussed, all of this annually arranged at Reedley, California and other com with the intention of making the twentieth century munities, on an inter-Mennonite basis. These sessions Mennonite Church as effective an instrument as pos stimulate interest and provide opportunities for pro sible in preaching the Gospel. longed discussion of peace issues which vitally confront A major study conference which was held in 1955 the historic peace churches. was the Conference on the Believers Church, organized and sponsored officially by the General Conference Mutual Aid and Business Mennonite Church; it was held in Chicago from August In 1955 a number of significant study conferences 23 to 25. The purpose of this conference was to re were held—one was the Conference on Mennonite Mu examine the scriptural teaching of the nature of the true tual Aid, held in Chicago on July 14 and 15. This con church. Special attention was paid to the New Testa ference was called and arranged for under the guidance ment church and the Anabaptist concept of the church. of the Mennonite Central Committee and the council Basic questions as to what constituted church mem of a smaller group representing various independent bership and the nature of church discipline were given Mennonite aid organizations. To this conference were profound and repeated attention. The one hundred thir invited representatives of some thirty different Mennon ty-five delegates and friends who attended this confer ite aid societies. These societies are independent of each ence from all parts of the United States and Canada dis other; many of them were even unknown to each other covered vigorous interest in the topics of the confer although they performed identical functions in various ence. The stimulus generated there is reflected through parts of the country. The Conference on Mutual Aid ac out the whole conference constituency as is evidenced by tivities was intended to explore common interests and the fact that local congregations and combinations of in general discuss ways of carrying on a more effective small churches are holding small study sessions and total mutual aid program. One of the major achieve series of classes and study groups on the same topic ments of this conference was the discovery of how ex (See the two articles in the October issue of Mennon tensive mutual aid was practiced in such areas as cas ite Life pp. 182-189). ualty, fire, storm and automobile insurance and the Some of the (Old) Mennonite relief workers and stu need for extension of mutual aid services in such areas dents have conducted study conferences in Europe of as burial, health and sickness insurance. which some of the lectures have been published in Con A study conference on the Christian in Business was cern.
JANUARY 1956 29 Conclusion by the Quaker relief corps) decided to take out It is clear from the reference to the several study the novitiate at Woodcrest; when you hear them sing conferences that have been described above, that this ing the great hymns, born of suffering and of com technique of setting aside several days for the intense munity living; when the young (most of them are very examination of some major church problem, is profit young—between 30 or 40 years of age) as well as the able. In the first place, it allows for freer and more mature, the single, the married, the believers and un complete discussion and examination of the problem believers, all coming to a unity of mind and heart; than is usually possible in official church conferences. when, the visitor asks himself, such things happen in In the second place, because the conferences are not of Bruderhof and when, especially, they do not happen in ficial and do not take action binding the entire corporate other places; and when, finally, these are precisely the body, the explorations tend to be less bound by caution things we would expect to happen as a fruit of true and moderation. In the third place, these conferences Christian living, then if it is escapism, it must be serve as effective sounding boards for later official the kind the New Testament as well as the Old Testa action. They indicate overall concerns and trends in ment had in mind when the Children of Light were thinking. They are, in a sense, intellectual and spiritual admonished to “come out of the world,” to “be in it weather vanes. They provide methods of preliminary yet not of it.” formulation of principles and policies which later on If that is escapism it is a form devoutly to be may be adopted as official church and conference pro wished for. cedure and doctrine. Finally, the study conferences pro vide an excellent demonstration of Christian search for truth through brotherly discussion and the exchanging of ideas and attitudes in a democratic way. Church legis WHY I AM A MENNONITE lation, therefore, can really be hammered out on the By Wm. Yake anvil of free exchange of ideas as over against decision I was not born a Mennonite, for the fact is my by official dogma and executive decrees. parents were not regular church attenders of any de nomination. I can only fairly give my personal reason. The Mennonite church means much to me in more than A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IS BORN one way. My principle reason for being a Mennonite is (Continued from page 16) the fact that I was converted in a Mennonite Brethren in Christ evangelistic service. No, I was not always a them. We need to maintain a continual openness of Christian. I was a poor lost self-satisfied sinner in need mind to discover God’s way of solving these problems. of salvation. There I repented of my sins and received an Basically, though, don't all the problems that you have experience which made me “a new creature in Christ mentioned have something at the root of them which is Jesus.” common to all, namely a certain separation of man from man, a lack of love, a feeling that one is not wanted The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church has since or cared for? You can give an aged person his Social that date changed her name to United Missionary Security retirement check, but that, basically, is not Church, but as yet the writer has not become resigned all that an older person needs. You can give a trans to casting aside that good old Mennonite name in ex ient a job, but that is not all that he needs. What change for another. It is a name which has earned a we all need is a sense of love, of brotherhood with place of respect and honor in much of the world, and I other human beings, and that is the thing that Bruder personally feel no reason whatsoever, why any person hof does supply in so far as it is possible for us to get or group should be ashamed of that name and the prin in touch with mankind at all. And, in the last ana ciples for which it stands. And so I still claim to be a lysis, you can never do anything for a person unless Mennonite regardless of what my Mennonite branch has he genuinely wants a better way of life.” done. It is hard to counter that argument, when you see Every Christian or congregation needs doctrines as white and colored living together harmoniously at a guide of conduct as they seek to live the Christian Woodcrest—sleeping, eating, working—in radiant pro life daily. There are at least two doctrines which all ductiveness; when you see those who were formerly Mennonite branches seem to hold in common, which ap rich now having and showing no preferment over those peal strongly to the writer as being true to God's word. in the community who were formerly poor, who They are non-confoi’mity and non-resistance. I appre could bring nothing to the Brotherhood when they ciate the fact that God has a people who are willing to entered it; when you see a woman, who, after be "a peculiar people.” This makes me feel at home in having been a guest there almost a year (who, this group. I also appreciate the work of the MCC and incidentally, had been, as it were, literally snatched its ministry of love in relieving the distress of needy from the oven doors of a Nazi gas furnace people of many lands. I believe that the world needs the
30 MENNONITE LIFE gospel message which we as a church have stood for To Our Readers: through the years. We appreciate the responses to the question “Why And so I count it a privilege to be one of this group I am a Mennonite” and are willing to receive more of Christian people who are known as Mennonites. God statements and reactions along these lines in order to seemed to direct my pathway to these people, and my de clarify and strengthen our views and convictions. sire is that God and his church may be honored through this word “Mennonite” and what it stands for. The Editors SOME PUBLICATIONS ON ANABAPTIST-MENNONITES, 1955
By CORNELIUS KRAHN
The Left-Wing Reformers lag Ag. Zollikon-Zürich). In the tradition of this series The interest in the Left-Wing Reformers continues Steele has a fresh approach in the matter of Luther’s as is evidenced in a number of publications during the attitude toward the "spiritualism” (Schwärmertum) of year 1955. Fritz Blanke wrote Brüder in Christo (Zwing- the Left-Wingers. Basic issues are raised along these li-Verlag, Zürich) in which he treats the oldest Anabap lines. Luther was not at all times and in all questions tist congregation of Zollikon. He is well qualified to basically different from his opponents within the Re present this account. J. A. Moore presents in Der starke formation movement which he had caused. Georg Bar Jörg (J. G. Oneken Verlag, Kassel) the biography of ing has prepared the bibliography of Hans Denek Georg Blaurock, an early Anabaptist leader and mission (Schriften. 1. Teil Bibliographie. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, ary. Gütersloh) which is to be followed by an edition of the Gerhard Ohling has made a study of Ulrich von Dor writings of Hans Denclc sponsored by the Täuferakten- num und das Oldersumer Religionsgespräch (Author, Kommission in which the American Mennonites partici Aurich) in which very valuable information about the pate. Reformation and East Friesland is presented. Ulrich The Mennonites von Dornum was sympathetic towards the Anabaptists. Among the significant publications of the year, we The Münsterite movement does not cease to attract fic find B. H. Unruh’s Die niederländish-niederdeutschen tion writers. F. T. H. Csokor presents the account in his Hintergründe der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im novel Der Schlüssel zum Abgrund (Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 16., IS. und 19. Jahrhundert (Author, Karlsruhe). Un Hamburg). In his book Rembrandt’s Weg zum Evan ruh discusses in the first part of the book basic ques gelium, W. A. Visser’t Hooft (Zwingli Verlag, Zürich) tions about the background of the Prusso-Russian discusses among other things the question of Rem Mennonites; and in the second part he presents lists and brandt’s relationship to the Mennonites which was most documents pertaining to the families which migrated to recently presented by 1-Ians Martin Rotermund in "Rem Russia. The book is a significant contribution in this brandt und die religiösen Laienbewegungen in den Nie area of research. E. K. Francis has made a study of the derlanden seiner Zeit" (Nederlandsch Kunst-historisch Mennonites in Manitoba which was published under the Jaurboek, 1953). (See Mennonite Life, Jan. 1952, p. 7). title In Search of Utopia (D. W. Friesen and Sons, Al W. A. Visser’t Hooft challenges some of Rotermund’s tona, Manitoba). The book deals primarily with the con claims that Rembrandt was influenced by the Mennon servative Old Colony Mennonites and the related groups ites. who came from Russia to Manitoba during the 1874 mi Two new studies have appeared regarding Luther gration. This is a significant study in this field. Exiled and the extreme Left-Wing Reformers (Schwärmer). by the Czar by Gustav E. Reimer and Gustave R. Gaed- Hayo Gerdes has published his doctor’s dissertation on dert describes in detail the life and times of Cornelius Luthers Streit mit den Schicärmern um das rechte Ver Jansen and the Great Mennonite Migration, 1S7.{\ (Men ständnis des Gesetzes Mose (Göttinger Verlagsanstalt) nonite Publication Office, Newton, Kansas). It has just in the tradition of the Lutheran scholars, Karl Holl and come off the press. Emanuel Hirsch. Gerdes treats Luther’s relationship Possibly the most significant publicaton of the year, toward Karlstadt and Müntzer regarding the law of dealing with the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement, was Moses and the natural law. His dissertation was written the first volume (A-C) of the Mennonite Encyclopedia- under Gogarten. which was reviewed in the last issue. This volume can be Closely related to the subject matter is K. G. Steck’s ordered through the Mennonite Life office, North New Luther und die Schwärmer which appeared in Karl ton, Kansas, for 810. Mennonite Life can also fill orders Barth’s series Theologische Studien (Evangelischer Ver on the book by B. H. Unruh which costs $4.
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Historic Kansas. A Centenary Sketchbook by Mar reproduction rate. It. is a valuable contribution to the garet Whittemore. Lawrence, Kansas, 1954, 223 pp., understanding of human biology. Mennonite scholars as 55.00. well as sociologists generally will find this an interesting source of comparison with other groups, either more Historic Kansas is one of the many books which is or less highly organized. It is well-written and easily being produced in connection with the Kansas Centen read. The many charts and tables give substance to ary. It is one of the finest books which has appeared on the text. Kansas to date and should find its way into the family Bethel College —J. W. Fretz libraries of Kansans. This reviewer recommends the book for children and their parents. The book contains Your Church and You, Frank C. Peters, Hillsboro, nearly 140 sketches of historical landmarks with ac Kansas: Mennonite Brethren Publishing House, 1955. companying text. It is attractive, easy reading, yet sur 40 pp. prisingly accurate and comprehensive, and contains such The author of this 40-page pamphlet has done his things as rocks and rivers, old forts and missions, inns church a genuine service by setting forth simply and in and churches, homes and trees and other similar items brief outline, the principles on which the Mennonite including the “Mennonite Monument” of Newton. No Brethren Church stands, the origin of the church, and references can be found in the book to any of the Men its large witness and responsibility in our day. The nonite landmarks such as early schools, churches, mills, pamphlet makes no pretense at being a scholarly docu ment. It is merely a summary for the the average young etc. The author’s admiration for the heroism of the person in the Mennonite Brethren Church who wants to pioneers, and the beauty of the Kansas landscape are be better informed abou his own religious fellowship. reflected throughout and help to bring the reader a new It is worth an hour of anyone’s time. appreciation of Kansas and its historic role. Bethel College —J. W. Fretz Bethel College Harley J. Stucky Filndzwanzig Jahre der Mennonilischen Ansiedluwj Henry’s Red Sea by Barbara C. Smucker, Scottdale, zu Nord Kildonan 1928-1953. North Kildonan, Manitoba. Pa. Herald Press, 1955. 104 pp. $1.65. (1953). 71 pp. (Illustrated). Among recent books I have enjoyed is Henry’s Red North of Winnipeg is located a Mennonite com Sea by Barbara Smucker. It is a story for young people, munity known as North Kildonan. Many of the Men- telling in fiction form the deliverance of refugees from nonites that escaped Russia since World War I came to Communist Russia and their remarkable escape from Winnipeg. In North Kildonan they established a com Berlin and their embarkation for Paraguay on the S. S. munity very similar to what they had been accustomed Volendam under the leadership of Mennonite Central to in the old country, with their cwn church, education Committee workers, Peter and Elfrieda Dyck. al institutions, and business enterprises. The book re The story centers around a typical refugee family, ferred to is a worth while monument commemorating Bergen by name, and includes a mother, grandmother, the twenty-fifth anniversary. two children, Henry, age twelve, and his sister, a pro Bethel College —Cornelius Krahn spective teacher, plus a small orphan boy who "attached himself” to them. Their life in a makeshift shelter in Berlin, then in a Mennonite Central Committee spon sored building, is portrayed realistically. The grandmother's faith, the mother’s courage, the Martin Luther Film daughter’s desire to go to Canada instead of Paraguay, Henry's memories of the good home in Russia and his Available Throafjh Mennonite Life feeling of responsibility as "man of the family,” to gether with the pathetic feeling of insecurity and fear on The now famous film, "Marlin Luther," is no the part of little orphan boy Rudy—how true the pic longer being shown through commescial channels. ture, as relief workers will testify. However, a copy of the film has been secured by M ennonite Life and will be m ade available to This is a story showing that God can do marvelous churches, organizations and societies. things for people who believe in the power of prayer and have faith. It is a chapter in Mennonite history that "Martin Luther" was produced by Louis de Roche- mont Associates in cooperation with Lutheran Church should ever be kept alive in the minds of the younger Productions, Inc., on location in the towns, castles, generation. and churches of West Germany. It is the story of the North Newton Mrs. P. S. Goertz work of a man, Martin Luther, his efforts for reform, his excommunication, and the developments that led to the origin and growth of the Protestant Movement. Man’s Capacity to Reproduce, by Joseph W. Eaton Careful research of European and American docu and Albert J. Mayer, Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, ments of Roman Catholic and Protestant writers 1954. 60 pp. formed the basis for the script. Much of the dialogue This 60-page book is a technical study of fecundity was culled from historic documents. For dramatic and fertility among the I-Iutterians within the United structure and purpose, dialogue, sermon material, and States and Canada. It is highly significant because it a few characters in the authentic story were tele examines a control group to discover insights about scoped, vital statistics about a religious group that is highly integrated and whose life is centered around religious Write to M ennonife Life, North Newton, Kansas, for communism. Seldom have primary groups been studied full details on the use of this remarkable film. with such explicit attention given to an analysis of the
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1 Index: 1946-55 Ten Years of Mennonite Life
This is a cumulative index which includes all authors of articles and major subjects treated in Mennonite Life during the first ten years of its publication (1946-1955). Such topics as countries, places, leaders, various cultural and re ligious aspects, etc., are listed. Authors are listed by last name. Articles are given by issue, year, and page. The following abbreviations were used: Ja-January, Ap-April, Ju-July, Oct-October.
A Amish Traditions (Book Review). Joseph W. Yoder, O ct '54, 154. ADRIAN, Walter Yoder. A p '51, 46. Mennonites in Reference Books 1940-1950. Thrilling Story from an Old Diary. Ju ’-IS, Annotated Bibliography of the Amish. (Book Cornelius Krnhn. Ap '52, 87. 215. Review). John A. Hostetler. Oet ’51, 44. Mennonites Return to Zuerich. Paul Peachey. AFRICA Century in Iowa. Melvin Gingerich. Ja '47. J u ’53, 102. Go Ye Therefore. Andrew R. Shelly. Oct 24. Menno’s Volk in Groningen (Book review). *55, 177. Fifty Years in Dawson County, Montana. H. Dassel, Jr. Ap ’54, 96. AGRICULTURE Chris A. Butler. Ju. '54, 111). New Approach to Anabaptist Research. Adventure« in Chaco Agriculture. Menno Glimpses of the Amish. Ju '53, 13. F ran k lin H . L ittell. Oct ‘53,_ 167. Klassen. Oct '52, 152. Joseph Stucky and Central Conference. Har Passion in Bern (Book review). Walter Agricultural Training in Holland. G. Veen- ry Yoder. Ap '51, 66. Lnedrnch. Ju ’52, 143. •strn. J u '52, 111. Master Farmers of Lancaster County. Fred Vocations of the Swiss and South German Agriculture among the Mennonite» of Mex Knoop. Ja '47. 17. A nabaptists. R obert K reider. J a ’53, 38. ico. H . D. Stoes7.. Ap '47, 40. Mennonites in the Oklahoma Runs. Marvin Waldensinns and the Mennonites. Sandro Agriculture among the Mennonite« of Rus Kronker. Ju '55, 114. Sarti. Ap ‘50. 21. sia. Cornelius Iirahn. Ja '55, 14. Pennsylvania German Barns. Alfred L. Wilhelm Wiswedel. Robert Friedmann. Ja Agriculture of Manitoba Mcnnonites. Don E. Shoemaker. Oct '51. 6. ’55, 41. Totten. Ju '43, 24. Pennsylvania Mennonites in Print 1940-1950. See also nooks in Review Amish and Tractors. Ja '47, 43. James R. Clemens. Ap '52, 83. A N D REA S, Carol R. Dressing and Keeping the Earth. W. H. Plain Dress. Marjorie Linseheid Isaak. Ap Uncle Davy. J a ’53, 32. Stauffer Interviewed by G. K. Rule. Ap '55, 65. ANDREAS, W. C. '40, 15. Revival of Parochial Elementary Education. Highlights and Sidelights of the Mennonites Soil Conservation and the Farmer. A. D. Silas Hertzler. Oct '49, 42. in Beatrice. Ju '46, 21. Stoesz. A p '40, 66. Rosanna's Boys: A Sequel I« Rosanna of the ANDRES, H. J. Why I Practice Soil Conservation. Ap '40, Amish (Book Review). J. W. Yoder. Ju Colonia Mennonita in Uruguay—27, de Oc- 12. '49. 47. tubre. J u ’49, 15. See also Farming. AMSTERDAM ANDRES, Jo n n n a S. ALBERTA Mennonites in Amsterdam. Irvin B. Horst. Contemplation. Ja ’46, 8. Mennonite Conference of Alberta after J u '52, 113. I Only Thunk and to the Angels Liston. Ja Twenty-Five Years. David P. Neufeld. Ap AMSTUTZ, D. '46. 4. '54. 57. Dutch Mennonite Missions During the War. My Children Have the Mumps. Ju '47, 44. Mcnnonites of Alberta. Melvin Gingerich. J a '48. 16. Pfeffernue3.«e, Springerlc and Marzipan. Ap '54, 515. AMSTUTZ, H. Clair J a '49, 4. ALBRECHT, Paul So You're Going to Be Married. (Book re At New Year's Break. Ju '47, 5. See Mennonite.« and Mental Health. Ju '54, view). Ap '53, 96; See Mennonites and ANIMALS DIG. M ental H ealth. J a ‘54, 126. Gallery of Animal Friends, Reuben Funders. ALDERFER, Gordon E. ANABAPTISTS Ap '51, 24, M id-W inter L etters. J a '47, lfi. Anabaptist Concept of the Church. Erland Goat. Warren Kliewer. Ap '55, 8G. Montgomery County Story. Ap '52, i)G. Waltncr. Oct '50, 40. Lord’s Handiwork in our Fields. Richard Pioneer Culture of the Plain People. Oct Anabaptist Source Material (Book review). H. Schmidt. Oct '47. 17. '50, 30. Roland H. Bainton. Ju '53, inside hack ANNIVERSARIES ALEXANDERWOHL cover. Story of Our Conference and Churches. H. Alexanderwohl "Schnurbuch.” Melvin GLn- Anabaptist View of the Church (Book re D. Burkholder. Ap '52, 33. gerich. J a ’4G, 45. view). Franklin H. Littell. Ja '53, 48. In Commemoration of Seventy-Five Years A lexanderw ohl V illages in K ansas, 1374. Oct Conrad Grehel 1498-1526 (Book review). in America. Ap '53, 95. '40, 21. H arold S. Bender. J a *51, 46. Jubilnuum-AIbum der Konferenz der Men- Beginnings of Mennonite Secondary Educa Church of the Restoration. Roland H. Bain- noniten in Canada (Book review). J. G. tion in Kansas. P. J. Wedel. Oct '48, 14. tc.n. Ju '53, 136. Rempel. Ap '53, 95. Przechowlia and Alexanderwohl. J. A. Church and the Spiritualizers. Franklin H. One Hundred Years in Wadsworth. Rachel Duerksen. Ap '55, 7G. Littell. Ap ’55, 61. Kreider. Oct '53, 161. Spread of Alexanderw ohl Com m unity, 1940. Community of Saints. Franklin H. Littell. Seventy-Five Years of Missions in Okla Oct. '40, 23. O ct '5(1, 3. homa. Herbert M. D alke.Ju '55, 101). T ran sp lan tin g Alexanderw ohl, 1874. Oct ’49, Enduring Witness—the Mennonites. Roland Ten Years of Mennonite Life. Oct '55, 15(1. 24. H. Bainton. Ap '54, 83. Twenty-Five Years, Fernheim. Henry H. ALGEMEENE DOOPSGE7.INDE SOCIETEIT Frontier Community. Roland Bainton. Ja Epp. Oct '55 175. Dutch Mennonite.« Unite During Crisis. Piet ’54, 34. APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH van der Meulen. Ju '48, 20. Great Commission. Roland H. Bainton. Oct Apostolic Christian Church. J. W. Fretz. Spiritual Reconstruction. C. Nijdam. Ja '53. 183. Oct '51, 19. '47. 31. De Wcderdcpers iii de Noordelijke Neder- Background of Apostolic Christian Church. ALTERNATIVE SERVICE lnnden 1531-1544 (Book review). Albert Delbert Gratz, Oct '51, 20. Non-Combatant Service Then and Now. Fredrik Mellink. Ap '55. 94. ARAPAHO Frank C. Peters. Ja '55, 31. Die tocnernen Fuesse (Book Review). Hel Seventy-Five Years of Missions in Oklahoma. Program at Home. William T. Snyder. Oct m ut Paulus. Oct '54, 188. H erbert M. Dnlke. Ju '55. 1 0 0 . '51, 3G. Die Wicdcrtncufcr in Wipptal (Book review). ARCHITECTURE See also Civilian Public Service Franz Kolb. Ju '53. 48. Pennsylvania German Barns. Alfred L. Shoe AMES, Winslow Lieder und Tod der Taeufer. Joh. P. Clas maker. Oct '51, G. Thoughts of an Outsider on Mennonite Civ sen. Ap *51, 40. (See also Churches). ilian Public Service. Ap '48, 41. Ludwig Keller—Scholar with a Mission. ARENTZ, Frederico AMISH Amalie Keller. Oct '53, 159. Host at Rio-Frederieo Arentz. J. W. Fretz. Amish and Tractors. Ja '47, 43. Master Farmers of France. Ernst Correll. Ap '55, GO. Amish in Kansas. D. Paul Miller. Ap '51, A p '52, 61. ART 20. Mennonites and Doopsgczinden. Irvin B. Art ns I See It. Lena Waltner. Ja. '47, 46. Amish Problems at the Diener-Versammlung. Horst. Ap '51, 29. Artists at Work (Herman P. Lepp, Johannes John A. Hostetler. Oct. '40, 34. Mennonites in a French Almanac. John H. Jnnzen, Isaac H. Funk). Oct '51, 43.
JANUARY 1956 33 Card van Mander en Italie (Book review). Wiebe’s Dairy—A Story of Ambition and Daniel F. Bergthold 1876-1948. J. H. Loh- Helen Noe. J n ’55, 144. Work. Reuben Fntiders. Ap '50, 24. ronz. J u '51, 31. Cup Ren din it on u Pitcher. B. B. Wiens. Jn BECKERRATH, Heinrich von Daniel Wohlgemuth—an Artist of Bible '52, 13. Mennonites of Krefeld. Walter Risler. Ap Lands. Cornelius Krahn. Ja '54, 4. Daniel Wohlgemuth—An Artist of Bible '50. 26. Der Bildhauer Heinrich Mekelburger. Kurt Lands. Ja ’54, 4. Cornelius ICrnhn. BECKERATH, Roswitha von Kauenhoven. Ja ‘54, 29. Edward .1. Linscheid—Artist-Farmer. Joan Cradle of Germantown—Krefeld. Ju '47. 22. Editor Abrahnm L. Schellenberg. T. R. Guyer. Ju '53, 113. B ELIEV ER ’S CHURCH Schellenberg. Ja '54. 19. Folk Art of the Pennsylvania Germans Personal Perspective on the Believer's Edward J. Linseheid—Artist-Farmer. Joan (Book review). C. Hostetler. Ju '47, 35. Church Conference. Elmer Ediger. 0:t Guyer. J u '53, 113. From Plow to Brush—Alexander Harder. '55, 182. Gerhnrd Esau, Artist in Wood. Ja '49, 12. Oct. ’53. 147. Believer's Church Conference, August 23-25, Good Old Frisian. J. D. Unruh. Ap '51, 31. Gerhard Esau, Artist in Wood. Ja '49. 12. 1955. A Digest of the Lectures, Oct. '54, Gustav Harder. Edith Claas sen Gräber. Oct Grandmother’s Quilt. Eva Harshbnrger. Oct 185. '52, 176. '48. 17. BENDER. Harold S. Hans Harder—a Mennonite Novelist. Cor Der Bildhauer Heinrich Mekelburger. Kurt C. Henry Smith—A Tribute. Ap '50. 4. nelius Krahn. Ap '53, 78. Kauenhoven. Ja ’54, 29. Conrad Grebel, 1498-1526. (Book review). Heinrich Heese. (Book review). David H. Home-ernfts in Our Day. Jeanne K. Tinhrt. Ja '51, 46. Epp. Oct '53, inside back cover. Oct '48, 11. Fifth Mennonite World Conference. Ju '52, Heinrich H. Ewert—Educator of Kansas Linoleum Cuts of Amish People. Arthur L. 99. and Mnntitobn. P. J. Schaefer. Oct '48. 18. Sprunger. Ju '40, 34. Mennonite Encyclopedia. Ju '46, 6. Henry Peter Krehbiel (1862-1946). Elvn Mennonite Artists—Danzig and Koenigsberg. Outside Influences on Mennonite Thought. K rehbiel Leisy. Oct ’54, 162. I Kurt Kauenhoven. Ju '49, 17. J a ‘55, 45. Henry W. Lohrenz—An Introduction. Mari Menncriites and the Fine Arts. Cornelius BERG. Ford anna Lohrenz Remple. Oct ’48, 32. Krnhn. Ap '48, 3. Mennonite Publishing House. Ja '51, 32. In Memoriam—Cornells Nijdnm. H. Cra- Months of the Year, Johann H. Janzen. Oct Revival in Our Day. Ju '52, 111). andijlc. J a '47, 33. '51. 13. Spanish Publication. Ap '53, 94. Jacob H. Janzen als Lehrer. Marg. Wilms My Mission as an Artist. Marie Birkholtz- BERG, P. H. Rem pel. J u ’51. 38. Bestvater. Ap '54, 53. Mennonite Brethren Press. Ja '51, 38. Jacob H. Janzen als Prediger. N. N. DHed Pennsylvania Dutch A rt. O ct '53, 169. BERGTHOLD. Daniel F. ger. Ju '51, 39. Plowing the Steppes. J. P. Klassen. Ja ’46, Daniel F. Bergthold 1876-1948. J. H. Loh- Jacob H. Janzen—at Home. Heinz Janzen. -18. renz. Ju '51. 3. Ju '51, 35. Portraits of Menno Simons. Sibold S. Smed- BERNAYS, C. L. Jncob H. Janzen—Writer. Arnold Dyck. Ju ing. J u '48, 16. A m ong th e M ennonites o f K ansas in 1878. ’51, 33. Oct ’49, 20. Jacob Stucky—Pioneer of Two Continents. Rembrandt and the Mennonites. H. M. Roter* I. G. N eufeld. J n '49, 46. mu.nd. Ja ’52, 7. BERNE, Indiana. Apostolic Christian Church. J. W. Fretz. Jukob G. Niebuhr Fabriken. Ja '55. 25. Rembrandt, the Bible and the Mennonites. Oct '51. 19. Jo h an Engelbert van Brakel, 1882-1950. Cornelius Krnhn. Jn '52, 4. Berne Community. Olin A. Krehbiel. Ju ’47, Fritz Kuiper. Oct ’51, 4. Tlie Spirit of Pleasnnt Hill Farm. A. R. 17. Johann Cornies—A Great Pioneer. Walter Ebel. Ju '49, 43. Economic Life of the Berne Community. Q uiring. Ju ’48, 30. Tc.ngues in Trees. Reuben Funders. Ja '51, Leland C. Lehman. Ju '47, 19. John H. Hnrms—Pioneer Mennonite Doctor. 10. Samuel Ferdinand Sprunger, Pastor—Con E. M. Hnrms. Oct ’49, 13. Traum und Wirklichkeit (Jakob Sudermann) ference Worker. Eva F. Sprunger. Oct '53, John H. Oberholtzer, and His Time. S. F. A. S. J a '53. 17. 178. Pnnnuliecker. Ju ’47. 39. Woodearving—Elmn Waltner. Lena Wnltner. BERTSCHE, Arthur J. Joseph Stucky and the Central Conference. Ap '52, 63. Biography of a Farm. J. W. Fretz. Ap '50, Harry Yoder. Ap ’51, 66. AUSBUND 28. Life That Made a Difference (C. Henry Lieder und TpcLder Taeufer. Job. T. Classen. BETHANIA, Russia Smith). Cornelius Krnhn. Ap ’50. 3. Ap '51, 40“ Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju '54, 118. Ludwig Keller—Scholar With a Mission. Pioneer Culture of the Plnin People. Gor RETHEL COLLEGE Amalie Keller. Oct ’53, 159. don E. Alderfer. Oct '50, 30. Bethel College. Oct. '48, 26. Moses of Our Day—-David Toews. D. J. ANSLO, Cornelius CInesz Contributions of Pioneer David Goerz. D. Schellenberg. Ju ’50, 6. Rembrandt and the Mennonites. H. M. Ro- C. W edel. Oct '52. 170. My Father (David E. Harder). M. S. Hard termund. Ja '52, 7. Industrial Arts in a Metuionite College. P. er. J u ‘46, 44. AUSTRIA R. Kaufman and Menno Stucky. Ju '54. My Recollections of P. M. Friesc.n. F. C. Of Hutterite Books. Robert Friedman. Ap 105. Thiesseti. Oct ’48, 9. •52. 81. Reminiscences and Reflections. Theodore O. N. B. Grubb—Editor and Minister. Arthur B Wedel. Oct '48, 39. S. Rosenberger. Ja ’öl, 42. BACHMANN, Emma K. Story of a Library. John F. Schmidt. Ap Peter Jansen—Pioneer, Leader and Philan From the Krehbiel Family Album. Ju '55, '54. 68. thropist. Cornelius J. Claassen. Oct ’47, 4. 135. Uncle Davy. Carol R. Andreas. Ja '53. 32. Peter Martinoviteh Friesen. Peter Braun. BACKNANG BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH Oct ’48, 8. Our Pnx Boys—Europe. Curtis Janzen. Ap College Church After Fifty Years. C. E. Peter R. Schroeder—Pastor and Conference '54, 80. Krehbiel. Oct '48, 36. Worker. Celeste Schroeder Dehnert. Ju ’49, BAERG. G. Reminiscences and Reflections. Theodore O. 38. Mennonites in Fiction—Gnndennu. Oct '47, W edel. Oct '48, 39. Pioneer Educator Johnnn Cornies. M. S. BETHEL DEACONESS HOME AND HOS H arder. Oct ’48, 5. BAINTON, Roland H. PITAL Pioneer Education—N. E. Byers. C. Henry Anabaptist Source Material (Book review). The Deaconess and Her Ministry. Ja '48. 3«. Smith. Ja ’48. 44. Ju '53 inside back cover. BIBLE SCHOOLS Pioneer of Christian Civilization in America Church of the Restoration. Ju '53. 136. Summer Bible School Material. Paul Shelly. (Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy) Leland Hard Enduring Witness—the Mennonites. Ap '54. A p '49, 45. er. Ju ’49, 41. 83. BIBLIOGRAPHY P. J. Wiens—Missionary to India. Agnes Frontier Community. Ja '54. 34. Annotated Bibliography of the Amish. (Book- Wiens Willis. Ap ’50. 30. Great Commission. Oct '53, 183. review). John A. Hostetler. Oct '51. 44. Plockhoy from Zurik-Zee (Book review). Here I stand (Book review). Jn '51, 57. Bibliography of German Culture—America to Leland and M arvin H arder. Jn ‘53, 47. BAPTISM 1940. (Book review). Arthur R. Schultz. Poet Gerhnrd Loewen. Arnold Dyck. Ja ’48, Anabaptist Concept of the Church. Erland Ap '55. 94. 22. Waltner. Oct. '50, 40. Books by J. H. Janzen. Ju '51, 42. Samuel Ferdinand Sprunger, Pastor—Con Church of the Restoration. Roland H. Bain- Books on Missions in India. Ju '50, inside ference Worker. Eva F. Sprunger. Oct ’53, ton. J u '53, 136. bnek cover. 178. BAPTISTS M ennonite Bibliography. 1946, Melvin Ging- Smith as a Business Man. Carl M. Leh A Short History of the Baptists. (Book Re erich and Cornelius Krahn. Ap '47, 46 : man. Ap '50, 9. view). Henry C. Vedder. Ju ’51, 46. 1947. A p '48. 47 ; 1948, Ap '49. 46 ; 1949, T ree a t W hitew ater. J . W. Fretz. Ap ’50, 11. Baptists Come Back to Waldshut. Paul Ap '50. 44; 1950. A p '51, 4 2; 1951, Ap '52. Uncle Davy (David H. Richert). Carol R. Peachey. Ap ’54, 63. 9 0 ; 1952, A p '53, 9 1 ; 1953, Ap '54, 32. A ndreas. J u ’53, 32. BARGEN. Benny Mennonite Bibliography. 1954. John F. Vachel Lindsay among the Mennonites. General Conference Mennonite Press. Ja. ’51, Schmidt and Nelson P. Springer. Ap '55. Paul Erb. Ap ’48, 39. 35. 91. Welcome to Immigrants (Henry A. Warken- BARNS P ennsylvania M ennonites in P rin t, 1940- tin). Marjorie Burden. Ju ’52. 116. Pennsylvania German Barns. Alfred L. 1950. A p '52. 33. Wilhelm G. Goeters-—Fifty Years of Re Shoemaker. Oct ’51, 6. BIOGRAPHY search. Cornelius K rnhn. A p ’53. 89. BARN RAISING Abraham J. Kroeker—Writer and Publisher. Wilhelm Wiswedel. Robert Friedmann. Ja Mutual Aid in Action. Ja. ’47, 18. O ct '52. 165. ’55, 4L BEARINGER, Noah Background of n Mennonite Family—Hamm. BIUKHOLTZ-BESTVADER, Ruth To God and Man. Ju. ’46, 46. Horst Penner. Ju '49. 18. Mission W ork in Colombia. A p '49. 36. Where Men Destroy. Ju. ’46, 31. C. B. Hylkema (1870-1948). G. W. Hylkema. BEATRICE Jr. '55, 43. BIRDS Highlights and Sidelights of the Mennonites C. Henry Smith as I Knew Him. N. E. Lord's Handiwork in our Fields. Richard H. in Beatrice. W. C. Andreas. Ju '46. 21. Byers. A p ’50. 5. Schmidt. Oct '47. 17. J. G. Wiebe Lumber Company. Mrs. Oscar C. Henry Smitii—A Tribute. Harold S. Man’s Bird Friends. Reuben Funders. Oct Wiebe. J u '53, 127. Bender. Ap ’50. 4. '52, 168. Rural Church—Beatrice, Nebraska. Jacob Contributions of Pioneer David Goerz. D. BIRKHOLTZ-BESTVATER, Marie. T. Friesen, Ap ’53, 30. C. W edel. O ct '52, 170. My Mission as an Artist. Ap '54, 53.
34 MENNONITE LIFE B IX EL, Jam es \V. 1952. J . G. Rem pel. Ju ’55, 44. Pennsylvania Folk Art, An Interpretation. In Praise of Freedom . J u ‘55, 99. Gebt der Wahrheit die Ehre. Karl Fast. Oct J. J. Stoudt. Ap ‘49, 44. BIXEL, Phyllis ’53, inside back cover. Pennsylvania Germans in Ontario, Cannda. Pennsylvania German Coverlets. Oct *50, Gedcnkbuechcin des Dankfestes der Nouein- A rth u r D. G rneff. Ap ’49, 43. 34. gewnnderten Mcnnonitcn in Ontario am Pennsylvania Mcnnonites in Print, 1940-1950. BLUFFTON COLLEGE 2-3 Juli 1951. Ap ’53. 96. Jam es R. Clemens. A p ’52, 83. Bluffton College—An Adventure in Faith. Gedenkfeier der Mcnnonitischen Einwander Pilgrims in Paraguny. J. W. Fretz. Ja ’54, A p '52, 03. ung in Manitoba. Ju ’51, 45. 46. See also Articles on C. Henry Smith and Genealogies. Ju ’55, 143. Plockhoy from Zurikzec. Leland and Mar by N. E. Byers. Geography of Hunger. Josue de Castro. Ju vin H arder. J a ’53, 47. BOEIt, M. de ’54, 144. Plow the Dew Under. Helen Clark Fernald. Flooding W aleheren Island. J a '4fi, 35. Gcschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Nederland. J u '53, 144. BOOKS IN REVIEW N. ya.-t der Zijpp. Ju ’53, 144. Poetry of the Old Testament. Sanford Cal Account of our Religion, Doctrine and Faith, Geschieden!» der Nederlandische Doopsgezin vin Yoder. Ap ’50, 47. (Hutterites). Ap '52, inside back cover. den in de Zostiende Eeuw. W. J. Kuehler. Proceedings of the Fourth Mennonitc World Africa Answers. Merle W. Eshelmn-n. Ap '52, Ap ’51. 45. Conference. A p ’52, 93. 95. Gluecklichc, Sonnige Schulzeit. Helene Toews- Progrnin Guide for Missionary Societies. Amish Life. John A. Hostetler. Ap '53, 95. Oct ’53, inside back cover. Elva May Sehrock. J a ’53, 47. Amish Traditions. Joseph W. Yoder. Ap '51, God of the Hills. L. J. Lantz. Ap ’55, 95. Prost Mahlzeit. Abraham Johann Friesen. 45. G rand River. Mabel D unham . Oct ’50, 45. O ct ’53, 190. Anabaptist View of the Church. Franklin H. Grundworte des Glaubens. Horst Quiring. Ap Quakers in Science and Industry. Arthur L ittell. J a '53, 48. ’50. 48. R eistrick. Oct ’54, 190. Anotated Bibliography of the Amish. John Handbook to Mennonite Hymnnry. Lester Reformation Refugees ns nn Economic Force. A. Hostetler. Oct ’51, 44. H ostetler. Ap ’50, 46. Frederick A . Norwood. Oct. ’54, 189. Appointment on the Hill. Dorothy Detzer. H eavens on E n rth . M ark Holloway. Ap ’55, Relief Worker's Notebook. Norman A. Wing J u ’51, 47. 94. ert. J u ‘54, 47. Bible Lessons for Kindergarten Children, Heinrich Heese. David H. Epp. Oct ’53, in Religious Educational Conference on the Y ear 1. Eva and R uth C arper. Oct ’53. side back cover. Curriculum as an Organ for Teaching 19(1. Here I Stand. Roland H. Bninton. J a ’51, 47. C hristianity. Ap ’52, 93. Bibliography of German Culture—America to Heritage of the Reformation. Wilhelm Religions Education nnd Mennonite Piety 1940. Arthur R. Schultz. Ap '55, 94. Pnuck. J u ’52, 144. Among the Mcnnonites of South-Eastern Blue Hills and Shoofly Pie. Ann Hark. Ap Hertzlcr-Hartzler Family History. Silas Pennsylvania. Paul R. Shelly. Oct '53, 190. ’54, 95. Hertzler. Ap ’54, inside back cover. Report to Protestants. Marcus Bach. Ju ’49, Bluff ton College—An Adventure in Faith. High Bright Buggy Wheels, Lueiin Creigh 46. Ap ’52, 93. ton. Oct ’53. 189. Russinn Idea. Nicolas Berdyaev. Ju ’49, 46. Botschafter nit Christi statt. Ap ’55, 90. History of one Branch of the ICrehbiel Fam Sopnrted unto God. John C. Wenger. Ju '52, Botschaft und Nachfolge. Theo. Glued;. Ap ily. W. J. Krehbiel. Oct T>2, 179. 142. ’50, 48. Hntterinn Brethren nnd Their Beliefs. Peter Rosanna’s Boys. A Sequel to Rosanna of the Brethren of the Common Life. Albert Hymn. H ofer. Oct ’55, 192. Amish. J. W. Yoder. Ju ’49, 47. O ct ’51, 46. Ideological Content of Soviet Literature. A. Service for Pence. Melvin Gingerieh. Ap ’50. Corel van Mander on Italic. Helen Noe. Ju M. Egelin. Ja ’52, 47. 46. ’55, 46. Itn Schweisse Deines Angesichts. Walter Serving Rural Puerto Rico. Justus G. Hol- Catechism Workbook. Walter Gering. Ap Quiring. Oct ’54, 190. singer. J a ’53, 47. ’52. 94. In Commemoration of Seventy-Five Years in Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Services of the Catechism Work Book of Alcxr.nderwohl A m erica. Ap ’53. 95. Swiss Mcnnonites. Harley J. Stucky. Ap Mennonitc Church. A. Phil. Wedel. Ap Influence of the Pennsylvania Dutch in the ’52, 94. '52, 94. Middle West. G. M. Ludwig. Ap ’49, 43. Sibirien (Part 1), Geschichte der Evangel Christianity, Communism and History. Wil In the Name of Christ. John D. Unruh. Ja ischen Mennonitengottesgemeinde in Sibir liam H ordern. Oct ’55, 192. ’53. 46. ien (P a rt 2). J . J . H ildebrand. Ap ’53, Christianity, Diplomacy and War. Herbert Journal of George Fox. John Nickalls. Ju 90. B utterfield. Oct ’54, 189. ’54. 144. Singing Together. J a ’53, 48. Church H ym nnl. Ju ’54, 144. Jubilncum Album der Konferenz der Mcnno Slavery and the Woman Question. Frederick Church U nder Communism. Oct ’54, 189. nitcn in Canada. J. G. Rempel. Ap ’53, 95. B. Tolles. Ja ’54, 46. Concern for Socinl Justice in the Puritan Kristli’s Trees. Mabel Dunham. Oet ’50. 46. Slavonic Encyclopedia. Ju ’51, 47. Revolution. Wilhelm Schenk. Oct ’50, 46. Kotare and Other Mission Stories. Ap ’52. Songs Along the Mnhcntongo. Oct ’51, 45. Conscientous Objector in Recent Literature. 95. Songs of the Church. Walter E. Yoder. Ju Paul Goering and J. W. Fretz. Ja ’53, 43. Landis Family Book. Ira D. Landis. Ja ’53, ’54. 144. Conrad Grebel, 1498-1526. Harold S. Bender. 48. So You're Going to be Married. H. Clair J a ’51, 46. Life with Life. C. C. Kauffman. Ja ’53, 47. A m stutz. A p ’53, 96. Culture in Crisis—A Study of the Hopi Little Red Hummy. Myrtle Crist Porter. Ap Steel Trails to Snntn Fe. L. L. Waters. Ap Indians. Laura Thompson. Ju ’52, 143. ’51. 47. ’52, 96. Dngger and the Cross. Culbsrt B. Rutenber. Loretta’s Settlement. J. A. Boese. Ap ’53, Story of Our Conference nnd Churches. H. J a ’53, 43. 95. D. B urkholder. Ap ’52, 33. Das Antlitz der Vertriebenen. Herbert Marguerite Vnlinore. Eva Caskel. Ja ’52, 48. Story of the Mcnnonites. C. Henry Smith. Krimm. Ap ’50, 48. Maryland Germans. Dieter Cunz. Oct ’51, 46. Ap '51, 44. Dee Fria; Welikoam Op’c Forstei!; De Op- Meditations for the New Mother. Helen Good Such Thuughts of Thee. Mariam Sieber Lind. noain; Ouse Lied en ola Tiet. Arnold Brenneman. Ja ’54, 46. A p '53, 95. Dyck. J a ’54, 46. Mennonitc Brethren Church. John H. Loh- Survey of Five of the Mission Fields of the De Millionen von Kosefeld. Arnold Dyck. Ju rc.nz. Oct ’51, 44. Conference of the Mennonite Brethren ’47, 47. Mennonitc Church in the Second World War. Church of N. A. loented in India, Africa, De Wcdordopers in de Nnordclijke Nedcr- Guy F. Hershberger. Ju ’52, 142. Brazil, Paraguay and Columbia. A. E. landen 1531-1544. Albert Fredrilc Mellink. Mennonite Community Cookbook. Mary Em Jnnzen. A p ’52. 35. Ap ’55, 94. ma Schownlter. Oct ’50, 45. Thnt Old Time Religion. Archie Robertson. De Witte Vrouw. Jan Mens. Oct *54, 7. Mennonite Life. John A. Hostetler. Ap ’55, J u '51, 47. Der Knntpf um eine evangelische Kirche im 90. Theological Basis of Christian Pacifism. Muensterlnnd, 1920-1802. Friedrich Brune. Mennonite Piety Through the Centuries. Charles E. Raven. Ja '53, 43. Oct ’54, 188. Robert Friedman. Ja ’51, 46. This Plnce Called Kansas. Charles C. Howes. Die Molotschnner Ansiedlung, Enstchung, Mennonite Settlements in the Paraguayan Ap ’55, 96. Entwicklung und Untergang. H. Goerz. Ap Clinco. Annemarie E. Krause. Ap ’54. 95. Ten of a Kind. Edna Beiler. Ap '55, 94. ’52. 96. Mcnnonites in Germnn Literature 1940-1950. War, Peace and Nonresistance. Guy F. Die Rosenortcr Gemeinde in Saskatchewan Horst Quiring and Cornelius Krahn. Ap Hershberger. Ap *54. 94. in W ort und Bild. J . G. R o m p J. Ju ’51, ’52, 85. Wnys nnd Power of Love. P. A. Sorokin. 45. Mcnnonites in Reference Books 1940-1950. A p '55, 95. Die Toenornen Fuesse. Helmut Paulus. Oct Cornelius K rahn. A p ’52. 87. We Tried to Stay. Dorothy S. McCnmuiKi. ’54. 188. Mcnnonitische Geschichtsbluetter. Ap ’50, 48. Oct ’54, 191. Die Wicdertaeufer in Wipptal. Franz Kolb. Mennonitischc Mnertyrer dot juengsten Ver What God Has Wrought. Emma Oyer. Ap J a ’53, 48. gangenheit. A. A. Toewa. Ju ’51, 45; Ju ’51, 47. Doctrine of Love and Nonresistance. Hurley '55, 143. Wheat Country. William B. Bracke. Ju ’51, J . Stucky. Oct ’55, 192. Menno Simons. Cornelius Krahn. Oct ’50, 44. 46. Dream Gate. Marcus Bach. Oct ’50, 47. Mcnno’s Volk in Groningen. H. Dassel, Ja. Wings of Decision. Eunice Schellenberger. Egg Tree. Katherine Milhous. Ap ’51, 47. Ap ’54. 96. Oct. '51, 47. Erasmus and our Struggle for Peace. Jose’ Middle East Sojourn. Samuel A. Yoder. Ap BOY Chapiro. Oct ’51, 47. ’52, 95. What is a Boy. Ju '51, buck inside cover. Espelkam p. Em ily B runk. J u ’52, 144. M inister’s M anual. Ap ’53, 96. BKAKEL, Johc.n Engelbert van Faith and My Friends. Marcus Bach. Oct ’51, Ministry of Good Will. Irvin B. Horst. Oet Johan E ngelbert van Brake!, 1882-1895. 45. ’51, 44. Frits Kuiper. Oct '51, 4. Fate of the Prussinn Mcnnonites. W. T. Montgomery County Story. E. Gordc.n Alder- BRAUN, Peter Schreiber. J u ’55, 144. fer. Ap ’52, 96. Peter Mnrti.novitch Friesen. Oct ’48. 8. Fellowship in the Gospel—India. Mrs. Har Orenburg nin Urnl. P. P. Dyck. Ap ’53. 96. BRAZIL old R atzlnff. J u ’51. 45. Out of the Crocodil’s Mouth. William Nelson. Host at Rio-Frederico Arentz. J. W. Fretz. For Hnlf a Century. Marie Waldner. Ap ’53, Ja ’52, 47. Ap ’55. 60. 95. Pnrnguny Interlude. Willard H. Smith. Ap Im Schweisse Deines Angesichts (Book re For More Than Bread. Clarence E. Pickett. •51. 46. view ). W alter Q uiring. O ct ’54, 190. Ju ’54, inside back cover. Passion in Bern. Walter Lnedraeh. Ju ’52, Mennonites in Brazil. Peter Klassen. Ja '47, Fuenfzig Jahre Konferenzbestrebungen 1902- 143. 37.
JANUARY 1956 BRITISH COLUMBIA Early Days in Manitoba. J. N. Hoeppner. Organization of the General Conference. Ju Mentionites on the Air in Western Cnntuln. Ap '51, 11. '47, 38. J. (I. Rempsl. Ja '52, it. Ein Gedonkbtatt aus der Neuen Heimat. J. CHEYENNE Pioneering in British Columbia. B. B. H. Enns. J u '48, 36. Seventy-Five Years of Missions in Oklahoma. W iens. J u MG. it. Elim Gospel Beach. John Lnewcn. Ju '47, 4. H erbert M. Dalke. Ju '55, 100. BROADCASTING From Gronau to Canada Siegfried Janzen. CHICAGO Mennonites on the Air. Andrew R. Shelley. Oct '51. 34. Bethel Mennonite Church. Levi Hnrtzler. Ap '52, 65. From Militia Tax to Relief. Blodwen Davies. A p '53, GO. Mennonites on tlie Air in Western Canada. Oct '50, 24. Brighton Mennonite Church. Richard Ratz- J . G. Rempel. J a '52, 125. From Russia to Canada 25 Years Ago. D. laff. A[i 53. 64. Station KVVSO. Cornelius J. Dyck. Ju '52. I). Rempel. Ju '48, 42. First Mennonite Church. Lelaml Harder. Ap 128. From Russia to Mexico—The Story of the '53, 58. What of Mennonite Broadcasts? Ju '52. 128. Kleine Gemeinde. P. J. B. Reimer. Oct First Mennonites in Chicago. J. W. Fretz. BROOK LANE FARM _ Mil, 28. Ap '53. 5G. M ennonites and M ental H ealth. J u '.VI, 118. Fuenfzig J a h re K onferenzbestrebungen 1902- Grace Mennonite Church. John T. Neufeld. Voluntary Service—A New Approach to Mis 1052. J . G. Rempel. Ju '55, 144. Ap '53. 65. sions. Elmer Ediger. Ja '51. 28. Gedenkfeier der Mennonitischen Einwander Iglesin Evangelien Mennonlta. John T. Lit- BRUNIv BROTHERS ung in Manitoba. Ju '51, 45. w iler. Ap '53, 63. Revival in Our Day. Ju '52, 11!» Grand River (Book review). Mabel Dunham. Lincoln Avenue Gospel Mission. J. S. Men DRUNK, Emily Oct '50, 45. del. Ap '53, 64. Espelkam p. J u '52, 144. Great Red River Flood. Abe J. Unruh. Ja Mennonite Home Missions. T. Otis Yoder. BUHLER, Kansas '51. 26. Ap '53. 61. Buhler Mill r.nl Elevator Company. Louis Heinrich H. Ewert—Educator of Kansas and Mennonite Seminary i.n Chicago. S. F, Pan- Regier and Harold M. Regier. Ap 'all, Manitoba. P. J. Schaefer. Oct '48, 18. nabecker. Ap '53, 68. 80. Jacob H. Janzen als Prediger. N. N. Dricd- Personal Perspective on the Believer's Early Hebron Mcnncnitc Church. C. C. ger. J u '51, 30. Church Conference. Elmer Ediger. Oct Epp. Ap '53, 86. Jacob H. Janzen—At Home. Heinz Janzen. '55, 182. UULLER Chris A. Ju '51, 35. Thin is Chicago. Andrew R. Shelly. Ap '53, Fifty Years in Dawson County, Montana. Jubilacum Album der Konferenz der Mcn- J u '54, 1 1 0 . noniten in Canada (Book review). J. G. Woodlawn Mennonite Church. William Kee DULLER, Harold Rem pel. A p '53, 05. ney. Ap '53, GG. Dawn, I Deemed, Had Came With Christ. Mennonite Conference of Alberta After CHINA Oct '52. 148. Twenty-Five Years. David P. Neufeld. Ap In the Far East. Ernest E. Miller. Oct '51, God, Grant us Moses-Men. Oct '52, 148. '54, 57. 31. In Europe. Oct '51, 23. Mennonite Contributions to Canada’s Mid We Tried to Stay (Book review). Dorothy S. Prayer. Ju MU, 15. dle West. E. K. Francis. Ap MO, 21. MeCummon. O ct '54. 191. P rayer. Oct '52, 148. Mennonites in Winnipeg. G. Lohrenz. Ja. CHORTITZA Temptation. Ju MG, 27. •51, 16. Cultural Achievement!- of the Chortitzn Men To A Little Shack in Montana. Ap '50, 2G. Mennonites of Alberta. Melvin Gi.ngerieh. Ap nonites. Walter Kuhn. Ju ‘48. 35. BURDEN, Marjorie. '54, 56. Das Gesundheitswesen in Chortitzn. D. A. A Welcome to Immigrants. Ju '52, 110. Mennonites of Ontario Today. Andrew R. H am m . Ap *55. 84. BURKHART, Charles Shelly. Oct '54, 17. From the Vistula to the Dnieper. Herman Music of the Old Colony Mennonites. Ja '52, Mennonites on the Air in Western Canada. Epp. Oct '51, 14, 2 0 . J. G. Rempel. Ja '52, 125. Mennonites of the Ukraine under Stalin BUSINESS Mennonites the World Over. Cornelius and Hitler. Gerhard Fast. Ap '47, 18. Economic Life of the Berne Community. Le- Krahn. Ja MG. 20. CHRISTMAS Iand C. Lehman. Ju '47, lit. Moses of Our Day—David Toews. D. J. Appeal of Christmas Today. Henry W. Loh Going to Market-Philadelphia. Dorothy M. Schellenberg. Ju '50. G. renz. Ja Mil, 3. Hutisberger. Oct '52, 1GG. Our Heritage of Music in Manitoba. Victor Birth of Jesus. Allen H. Erb. Ja ’48, 4. Jacob T. Gross. A Mennonite Business Man. and Elisabeth Peters. A p MS, 23. Christmas for Christians. Roy Roth. Ja ’54, J . D. U nruh. J a '47. 28. Pennsylvania Germans in Ontario, Canada. 3. J. G. Wiebe Lumber Company. Mrs. Oscar A rth u r D. G raeff. A p MO. 43. From Bedlam tc Bethlehem. Willard Claassen. Wiebe. Ju '53. 127. Pioneering in British Columbia. II. B. J a ’53, 3. Mennonites in Winnipeg. G. Lohrenz. Ja '51. W iens. J u '46, 0. Pfeffernuesse, Springerlo and Marzipan. Jo 16. Pioneering in Paraguay. Ja '50, G. anna S. Andres. Ja ’49, 4. Sixty Years in the Banking Business. II. E. Pioneering in the Land of the Midnight When Christmas Came. J. G. Claassen. Ja Sudorm nn. Ja_M8, 38. Sun. John A. Hostetler. Ap '48, 5. '49. G. Smith ns a Business Man. Carl M. Lehman. Present Mennonile Immigration to Canada. CHURCH CONCEPTS Ap '50, !». J. J. Thiessen. Ju '48, 33. Anabuptist Concept of the Church. Erland What we Found in Moundridge. Lloyd J. Welcome to Immigrants. Marjorie Burden. W nltner. O ct ’50. 40. Spaulding. Ju '52 131. J u '52, 1 1 6 . Believer’s Church Conference, August 23-‘T>, BUTCHERING CANTONMENT 1955. A Digest o f th e Lectures. O ct ’54, Butchering. Oct '51, 12. Beginnings of Missions in Oklahoma. Chris 185. I Remember Butchering. Reuben Fanders. tian ICrehbiel. Ju '55, 108. Personal Perspective on the Believer’s Oct ’47. 2G. CARE Church Confcrr.nce. Elmer Ediger. Oct BU TLER, J . D. Cure. J. N. Weaver. Ja '51, G. ’55, 182. M ennonite Stove. Oct Mil, 1G. CARLO CIVILIAN PUBLIC SERVICE BYERS, N. E. Twro Esel—Eene Foabel. Ap '47, 7. Mennonite Church in the Second World War. Ali-Mennonite Convention. Ju '48. 7. CARPER, Ruth Guy F. Hershberger. Ju ’52, 142. C. Henry Smith as I Knew Him. Ap '50, 5. Einsteigen Bitte! All Aboard. Norma Yost Mental Hospital Experience of Civilian Pioneer Educator—N. E. Byers. C. Henry and Ruth Carper. Ju '52, 100. Public Service. Grant M. Stoltzfus. Ap ’47, Sm ith. J a '48. 44. CARVING 8. Times in Which I Lived. I. Ja ’52, 44 : II. Artists at Work. Oet '51. 43. Mid-Winter Letters. E. Gordon Aiderfer. Ja Ap '52, 77 ; III. J u '52. 138. Woodearving—Elma Waltner. Lena Waltner. M7, 16. C Ap '52. G3. Returning Civilian Public Service Man. CALIFORNIA CATECHISM David Sudermun. Ja MG, 5. Citrus Fruit Industry of Southern California. Catechism Workbook (Book review). Walter Service for Peace. Melvin Gingerich. Ap L. J. Horsch. Oct '47, 4. Gering. An '52, !)4. ’50, 4G. From Farmer to Office Craftsman. Harold Catechism Work Book of Alexnnderwohl Service in Puerto Rico. Marvin Dyck. Ap Vogt. Ja '53. 3G. Mennonite Church (Book review). A. '51, 4. Grape r.nd Raisin Industry. Arnold C. Ewy. Philip Wedel. Ap '52, 04. Thoughts of an Outsider on Mennonite O ct *50, 4. CATTKPOEL Dirk Civilian Public Service. Winslow Ames. Mennonite Brethren Church—Recdley, Cali Mennonite World Conference Impressions— Ap '48, 41. fornia. J. B. Toews, Oct '54. 151. A German View. Ap '40. 30. Two Worlds of Peace. Howard W. Elkinton. M. C. C. Snn-Joa<|in Valley Project. Arlene Cradln of Germantown—Krefeld. Ju '47, 22. J a '50, 4. Sitler. Ju '51, 4. CATTLE Voluntary Service—A New Approach to Mennonite Citrus Fruit Growers. Lester Hos Menncnito Cattlemen. Waldo Harder. Ap M issions. Elm er Ediger. J a '51, 28. tetler. Oct '47. 8. '47. 11. What Have We Learned From Civilian Pub Shnfter-Wasco Community. Vernon Neufeld. CENTRAL CONFERENCE lic Service? Albert M. Gaeddert. Ju MG, Oct '52. 158. Joseph Stueky and Central Conference. Har 16. Station ICWSO. Cornelius J. Dyck. Ju '52, ry Yoder. Ap ’51, 06. CLEMENS, James R. 128. General Conference of the Mennonite Pennsylvania M ennonites in P rin t—1940- Two Worlds of Peace. Howard W. Elkinton. Church of North America. E. G. Kaufman. 1950. A p '52. 83. J a *50, 4. Ju '47, 37. CLAASSEN, Cornelius J. CANADA CHARTS Peter Jansen—Pioneer, Leader, and Phil Beginnings in Ontario. B. Mabel Dunham. Background Chart of the Members of the anthropist. Oct '47, 41. O ct ’5». 14. Bruderthal Church, Hillsboro. Ju '47. 30. CLAASEN, John H.—Family Canada. J. H. Janzen. Ju '51, 41. Distribution of all Mennonites cf North Tree at Whitewater. J. W. Fretz. Ap '50. Canadian Conscientious Objector. J. W. A m erica— 1046. J u '47, 41. 11. Nickel. J u '48. 24. Distribution of Congregations of the Gen CLAASSEN, Willard Canadians in East Paraguay. J. W. Nickel. eral Conference— 1046. Ju '47, 41. From Bedlam to Bethlehem. Jn '53, 3. Ja '50, 30. M ennonite M igration 1847-84. J a '50, 7. CLASSEN, Daniel J. Dic-Rosenorter Gemeinde in Saskatchewan in Mennonite Migration 1923-30. Ja '50, IG, Meade—a Changed Community. Ju '51, 14. Wort und Bild (Book review). J. G. Mennonite Migration: World War II. Ja. CLASSEN. Jack G. Rem pel. J u '51, 45. Mit, 27. When Christmas Came. Ja '49, 6.
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1 CLASSEN, Joh. P. Inman Bethel Mennonite Church. Peter T. Bibliography of German Culture in America Lieder und Tod der Taeufcr. Ap ’01, -1«. N cufeld. J u '53. G4. to 194(1. (Book review) Arthur R. Schultz. CLASSEN. J. T. Lincoln Avenue Gospel Mission. J. S. Men Ap '55, 94. G laubenshym ne. J u '02, 137. del. A p '53, 64. Conferences on Mennonite Cultural Prob COFFMAN. J. S. Mennonite Brethren Church—Reed ley, Cali lems. J. Winfield Fretz. Ju ‘48, 9. Times in Which I Lived—11. N. E. Byers. fornia. J . B. Toews. Oct '54. 151. Cultural Achievements of the Chortitza Men Ap '02. 77. Mennonite Churches in South Germany. Paul nonites. J u '48, 35. COLFAX. Schowaiter. Ja '52. 14. Glimpses Into the Past. Charles Kauffman. Colfax Washington Cotr.munity. J. W. Frets. Mennonite Conference of Alberta After Oct '49. 4. J u '0-1. Mil. Twenty Five Years. David P. Ncufeld. Ap Mr.nnonite Stove. J. D. Butler. Oct '49. 16. COLLEGES '54. 57. Mennonites of Krefeld. Walter Rislcr. Ap E et hei College. Oet MH. 20. M ennonites in the- Oklahom a Rons. M arvin '50, 11. Day in a Mennonite College. Oet '-IS. 23. Kroeker. Ju '55, 114. Hunger. Gerhard Wiens. Ju '59, 9. Heinrich H. Ewert—Educator of Kansas Mennonites Settle in Leo County, Iowa. S-e also: Art, Carving, Conking, Literature, und Manitoba. P. J. Schaefer. 0
JANUARY 1956 ÜV I Peter ilyck's Story. Jft *48, 8. K ELKHART INSTITUTE Pioneering in Paraguay. Jn. 7i0, fi. EAST RESERVE. Manitoba. Times in Which I Lived II. N. E. Byers. Present Mennonite Immigration to Canada. Gedenkfeier der Mennonitischen Einwander A p '52. 77. Program at Home. William T. Snyder. Oct ung in Manitoba (Book review). Ju '51. 45. ELKINTON, Howard W. ’51, 36. EASTER Two Worlds of Peace. Ja '50, I. Von Danzig .nach Uruguay. Gustav E. Rei Challenge of Easter. John F. Schmidt. Ap EMDEN m er. J u '49. 12. •49, 4. Sight-Seeing Tour of Ernden—Before and VVelcomo to Im m igrants. M arjorie Rurden. Christian Easter. J. H. Langenwalter. Ap A fter. J a '49. 30. Ju '52, IDG. 11, 4. EMMATAL SCHOOL With Russian Mennonites iti Denmark. Walt Egg Tree (Book Review). Kntheri.no Milhous. Beginning of Secondary Education in Kan er Quiring. Oct '47. 12. Ap ’51. 47. sas, J. J. Wedel. Oct '48. 14. Women's Odyssey. Lotte Hein ritz. Ap ’IS, ENCYCLOPEDIA, Mennonite 10. Russian Easter. Ap ’49, 39. Russian Easter and Paskhn. Wanda L. Fro Mennonite Encyclopedia. Harold S. Bender. See also Mennonite Central Committee. J u '46, 6. DITMEIt, It. P. lov. A p '52, 75. EASTERN DISTRICT CONFERENCE Mennonite Encyclopedia, Cornelius Krahn. U nited M issionary Society. J u ’50, 30. Eastern District Brotherhood. Ely R. Frets. Oct '55, 191. DOCK. Christopher. Oct 54. 167. Pioneer Culture of the Plain People. Gordon Our share in the Mennonitisches Lexikon. General Conference of the Mennonite Church C. E. Krehbiel. Ju '46, 9. E. Alderfer. Oct ’50, 30. of North America. Ed. G. Kaufman. Ju ENID, Oklahoma '47, 37. DOCTRINES North Enid Mennonite Brethren Church. Believer’s Church Conference August 23-25, Mennonite Way of Life in the Eastern Dis P. C. Grunau. Oct '54, 176. trict Conference. Paul R. Shelley. Oct '47, ENNS, D. P. 1955. Oct '55. 185. 39. Education in Russia. Ju '51, 28. Church of the Restoration. Roland H. Bain- Reflections at the End of a Century. J. W. ENNS, J. H. ton. J u '53, 136. Fretz. J a '17, 33. Ein Gedenkblatt in der neuen Heimat Ju Doctrine of Love and Nonresistence( Book Retreat Camp Grounds—Men-O-Lnn. John E. '49. 36. review). Harley J. Stucky. Oct '55, 192. Fretz. Ju '47, 6. ENS. Henk Enduring Witness—the Mennonites, Roland EAST PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE Dutch Mennonite Youth During the War and H . B ainton. Ap *54, 83. John H. Oberholtzer and His Time. S. F. After. Ju '48, 15. Great Commission. Roland H. Bainton. Oct ENTZ, J. E. ’53, 183. Pamnubecker. Ju '47, 29. EBEL, A. It. First Mennonite Church—Newton (1878- Hutterinn Brethren and Their Beliefs. Peter 1953). Oct '53, 153. H ofer. Oct ’55, 192. A spirations o f an Onion. O ct ’50, 38. ENZ, Jacob J. Personal Perspective on the Believer's Right Seeing Helps Well-Being. Oct ’51, 41. Step Ahead. Ju ’4S, 43. Prophet in Our Day. Ja '51, 3. Church Conference. Elmer Ediger. Oct Resurrection is Demonstration not Specula ’55, 182. EBERSOLE, Myron and Harold VOGT tion. A p '53, 51. DOOPSEZINDE Program Plans on Mental Health. Oct '54, 185. E P P , C. C. Mennonites and Doopsgezinden, Irvin B. Early Hebron Mennonite Church. Ap '53, 86. H orst. A p ’51, 29. EDIGER, Elmer EPP, David H. DOVES, Piet Personal Perspective an the Believer’s Heinrich Heese. Oct '53, inside back cover. Dutch Mennonite Youth. Ju ’48, II. Church Conference. Oct '55, 182. EPP, Hermann DREISER, Theodore Voluntary Service—A New Aproach to Mis Front the Vistula to the Dnieper. Oct '51, 14. Dreiser’s Mennonite Origin. E. E. Leisy. sions Ja '51, 28. Mennonite Principles on Europe's Stage and Oct ’54, 179. EDUCATION Pulpit. Jn '48, 7. DRAMA Agricultural Training in Holland. G .Veen- EPP, Henry H. Church Youth Give Plays. Arthur Isaak. strn . J u '52, l i t . Twenty-Five Years, Fernheim. Oct '55, 175. A p ’54, 66. Beginnings of Secondary Education i,;i Kan EPF, Peter. M ennonites in Germ an L iteratu re 1940-50. sas. P. J. Wedel. Oct '48, 14. Literature of the Russo-Canadian Menno- Horst Quiring and Cornelius Krahn. Ap Bethel College. Oct '48, 26. .nites.. J. H. Janzen. Ju '46, 22. ’52, 85. Bluffton College—An Adventure in Faith. ERASMUS of ROTTERDAM Open Air Play: Die Neue Heimat, Arnold Erasmus and our Struggle for Peace. Hose Regier. J u '53, 118. (Book review) Ap '52, 93. Day in a Mennonite College. Oct '48. 23. Chupiro. Oct '51, 47. Pennsylvania Mennonites in Print, 1940-50. Diiamtari Mennonite Mission. Paul Erl). Ju ESAU, Jacob Jnmes R. Clemens. Ap '52, 83. •51), 24. Das Gesundheitswesen in Chortitzu. D. A. Monnonite Principles on Europe’s Stage and Education in Russia. D. P. Enns. Ju '51, 28. H am m . A p ‘55, 84. Pulpit. H erm ann Epp. J a ’48, 7. Glucckliche, Sonnige Schulzeit (Book re ERB, Allen E. See also Dyck, Arnold; Literature. view). Helen Toews. Oct '53, inside back Birth of Jesus. Ju ‘48, 4. DRESS cover. World Conference Impressions. Ju ’53. 108. Mennonitisches Brauchtum. Walter Quiring. Heinrich H. Ewert—Educator of Kansas and ERB, Paul Oct ’49, 11. Manitoba. J. J. Schaefer. Oct '48, IS. Dhumturi Mennonite Mission. Ju '50, 24. Plain Dress. Isaak Marjorie Linscheid. Ap Hesston College. Oct '48, 28. Vachel Lindsay among the Mennonites. Ap ’55. 65. Industrial Arts in a Mennonite College. '48, 39. DRIEDGER, N. N. P. R. Kaufman and Menno Stucky. Ju ESAU, Gerhard Jacob H. Janzen also Prediger. Ju '51, 39. '54. 105. Gerhard Esau—Artist in Wood. Ja '49. 12. DUERKSEN, J. A. Jacob H. Janzen als Lehrer. Mnrg. Wilms ESPELK A M P Przechowka and Alexanderwohl. Ap '55, 76. Rempel. Die Mentioniten nt Espelkamp. Milton J. DUNHAM , B. Mabel. Jacob H. Janzen—Writer. Arnold Dyck. Ju H arder. J u '50. 109. Beginnings in Ontario. Oct '50, 14. '51. 33. Espelkam p (Book review ). J u '52. 144. Grand River (Book Review. Oct '50, 45. Mennonite Education in the Gran Chaco. EVANGELICAL MENNONITE BRETHREN ICristli’s Trees (Book review ). Oct '50, 46. Waldo Hiebert. Oct '47, 28. Story of the Jansen Churches. D. Paul Mil DYCK. Arnold Mennonite Seminary in Chicago. S. F. Pan- ler. J a ’55, 38. Auf dem Bnschtnn. J u '48, 29. nnbecker, Ap '53, 68. EVANSTON Deo Miliionnea van Kosefeld. Ja '47, 47. Mennonites and Education. Cornelius Krahn. Evanston Echoes in Monnonite Press. Oct Jacob H. Janzen—Writer. Ju ’51, 33. Oct '48. 3. \54, 148. Deo Frio; Wclknom Op'c Forstei!; De Old Country School. E. E. Leisy. Oct '47, 15. Glimpses from Evanston, W. F. Unruh. Oct Opnnom; Onse Lied cn Ola Tiet. Ja ’54. Pioneer Culture of the Plain People. Gordon ’54, 148. 40. E. Alderfer. Oct '50. 30. Second Assembly of the World Council of Koilishen. Ju '46, 37. Pioneer Educator—N. E. Byers. Henry- Churches. E. G. K aufm an. O ct ’54, 150. Koop enn Bua Op Reise. Ja '46, 26. Smith. Jr. '48. 44. EWERT, Bruno Runde Koake. Ap '47, 39. Pioneer Educator—Johann Cornles. M. S. Four Centuries of Prussian Mennonites. Ap Sehnettje met Arbus en Chicago. Ju '48, 42. Harder. Oct '48, 5. ’48, 10. Schweineschlachten. Oct '47, 26. P. M. Friesen. Peter Braun. Oct '48, 8. From D anzig to D enm ark. J n ’46, 37. The Parlor (Die Grosse Stube). Ja '40, 27. Public Schools and Religious Education. Poet Gerhard Loewen. Ja ’48, 22. Milo Stucky. Ap '54. 71. EWERT, H. H. Literature of the Russo-Canadin.n Menno Religious Education Conference on the Cur Heinrich H. Ewert—Educator of Kansas and nites. J. H. Janzen. Ja ’46, 32. riculum as nil Organ for Tenching Chris Manitoba. P. J. Schaefer. Oct ’48, 18. DYCK. A. J. tianity (Book review ). A p '52. 93. EWY, Arnold C. Religious Education in Public Schools. Frank Grape and Raisin Industry. Oct ’50. 4. Hoffnungsau in Kansas. Oct ’49, 18. K rause. O ct '49, 44. DYCK, Cornelius J. Revival of Parochial Elementary Education. F In South Am erica. O ct ’51, 27. Silas Hertzler. Oct '49, 42. FAMILY S tation KWSO. J u ’52, 128. Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth. Ja '52. 24. Your Family—the Key to Happiness. Pitirim DYCK, Marvin Swiss Galician Mennonites. W. Kuhn. Ja A. Sorokin. Ap '51, 8. Service in P uerto Rico. A p ’51, 4. '53, 24. FANDERS, Reuben. DYCK. Peter Tabor College. Oct '48. 30. Gallery of Animal Friends. Ap ’51, 24. K idnapped? J a ’46, 43. Times i.n Which I Lived. I. N. E. Byers. I Rem em ber B utchering. Oct ’47, 24. Peter Dyck's Story. Ja '48, S. J a '52. 44 : II A p '52, 77. Lunch Time on the Farm. Oct '52. 157. Uncle Davy. (David H. Richert). Carol R. Man's Bird Friends. Oct '52, 168. Third Group Leaving for South America A ndreas. J a '53, 32. (Photos). Ju ’48, 47. Tongues in Trees. Ja '54. 10. When Christmas Came. Jack G. Classen. Wiebe's Dairy—A Story of Ambition and DYCK, P .P . Jn '49, G. W ork. At» '50, 24. Orenburg am Ural (Book review). Ap ‘53, See also Culture, Art. 96. FARMING EITZEN, D. D. Adventures i.n Chaco Agriculture. Menno DYCK, Walter H. See Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju '54, Klassen. Oct '52, 152. Where Christ Should Be Born. Ja '17, 4. 130. Biography of a Farm. Ap *50, 28.
38 MENNONITE LIFE Bloodless Conquest. G. Veenstra. Ap *52, i4. Plow the Dew Under (Book review). Helen FRIEDMANN. Robert Colfax Washington Community. J. W. Fretz. Clark Fernald. Ju '53. 144. Christian Love in Action . . . the Hutterites. J u T)-l. 140. , , Providence. Jacob Sudermnnn. Part I, Ap Jul ‘46, 38. Danzig Mennonite Church Buildings loday. '54. 51 : Part II Ju '54, 99. Mennonite Piety through the Centuries (Book W ilson H unsberger. J u *49, 10. Schweineschlachten. Arnold Dyck. Oct '47, review ). J a '51, 46. Farming—Our Heritage. J. Winfield Fretz. 2«. Of Hutterite Books. Aji '52, 81. Ap ’49, 3. Sclinettje met Arbus en Chicago. Arnold Wilhelm Wiswedel. Ja '55. 41. Grass for the Good of the Land. A. D. Dyck. Ju '49. 42. FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE Stoesz. A]> '54, 50. Step Ahead. A. R. Ebel. Ju '49, 43. For More Thnn Brend (Book review). Clar Lied des Landmannes. N. Unruh. Ju '51, 22. Ten of n Kind (Book review). Edna Beiler. ence D. Pickett. Jul '54, inside back cover. Lunch Time on the Farm. Reuben Panders. A p '55, 94. FRIESEN, Abraham Johann Oct ’52. 157. Wings of Decision (Book review). Eunice Prost Mnhlzcit! (Book review). Oct '53, 190. Master Farmers of France. Ernst Correll. Schellenberger. Oct '51. 47. FRIESEN, Jacob T. Ap '52, 01. See also Books in Review. A Rural Church—Beatrice, Nebraska. Ap Mennonite Cattlemen. Waldo Harder. Ap '47, FIEGUTH, Wolfgang '53. 80. 11. Dispersed Mennonite Youth. Ap '53, 74. FRIESEN, J. J. Mennonite Community at Meade. J. \V. F IN E ARTS Remaking a Community—Henderson, Nebras F retz. Ju ’51, 8. Mennonites and the Fine Arts. Cornelius ka. O ct '50, 10. Mennonites of South Dakota. J. D. Unruh. Krahn. Ap '48,3. FRIESEN, J. John Ju '50, 2. See Art, Literature, Music, etc. Romance of Low German. Apr '47, 22. . Mennonites Settle in Lee County, Iowa. Ver FLOODS FRIESEN, P. M. non Neufeld. Oct '53, 170. Disaster in Holland. Irvin B. Horst. Ap My Recollections of P. M. Friesen. F. C. Mint Farmintr in Southern India.au. Melvin '53, 77. Thiessen. Oct '48. 9. Gitigerich. Oct '49, 40. The Great Red River Flood. Abe J. Unruh. P. M. Friesen. Peter Braun. Oct '48. 8. Remaking a Community. Henderson, Ne J a '51, 26. FRIESLAND braska. J. J. Friesen. Oct '50, 10. FLOROVSKY, George Pioneering in Paraguay. Ja '50, (i. » Shafter-Wasco Community. Vernon Neufeld. What Shall I Preuch. Oct '52. 190. FRUIT RAISING Oct '52, 158. FO LK ART Citrus Fruit Industry in Southern California. Swiss Galician Men-nonites. \V. Kuhn. Ju Folk Art of the Pennsylvania Germans. L. J. Horsch. Oct '47, 4. '53. 24. Charity Hostetler. Jul '47. 35. Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Ontario. Tree at Whitewater. J. W. Fretz. Ap '50, II. Pennsylvania Folk-Art, An Interpretation Oct '50. 24. Turkey Growing in Mountain Lake. J. W. (Book review). J. J. Stoudt. Ap '49, 44. Grape and Itaisin Industry. Arnold C. Ewy. F retz. O ct '50. 35. Seo A rt. Oct '50, 4. Von der Sichel bis zum Combine. J. J. FRANCE Mennonite Citrus Fruit Growers. Lester Hildehrandt. Ju '51, 20. The French Mennonites Today. John H. Hostetler. Oct. '47. 8. A Western Kansas Mennonite Settlement. Yoder. J u '52, 104. FU N ERA LS J . W. F retz. Oct '53, 174. Master Farmers of France. Ernst Gorreli. Christian Burial. Ben E. Kim. Ap '48. 48. G randfather’s Home. B. Ü. Neumn.n. J a ’47, A p '52. 52. Our "Christian” Funerals. R. C. Kauffman. 411. Mennonites i.n French Almanacs. John H. Jul '47, 45. Sea also Agriculture. Yoder. Oct '54, 154. FUNK. Isaac H. FAST, Abraham New Mennonite Institutions in Europe. A rtists a t W ork. Oct '51, 43. Sight-Seeing Tour of Emden—Before and Henry D. Fast. Ap '52, 52. FUNK, Ray After. Ja '49.30. Swiss and French Mennonites Today. Samuel Bniderthul—75 Years Ago. Jul '49. 4. FAST, Bertha Gerber. Ap *52, 58. Wuldensinns—World War II. Ap '50. 18. FRANCES. E. K. a FAST, Erna J. Monnonite Contributions to Canada’s Middle GAEDDEKT, Albert M. Christian Students Face the Iron Curtain. W est. Ap '49, 21. What Have We Learned from Civilian Ju '53. 111. FRANZ, Rufus M. Public Service? Ju '46, 16. In the Name of Christ. Ap '50, 35. It Happened in Montana (Franz, John M.) GALICIA FAST. Gerhard O ct '52, 181. Swiss Galician Mennonites. W. Kulm. Ja FREEDOM '53. 24. Mennonites of the Ukraine under Stalin and In Praise of Freedom. James W. Bixel. Hitler. Ap *47. IS. GALLE, O. K. J u '55, 99. Western District Brotherhood. Oct '54, 172. FAST, H. A. FREEMAN JUNIOR COLLEGE GEISER, Samuel. Dedication. Ju ’54, Outside buck cover. For Half a Century. (Book review). Marie World Conference Impressions. Ju '53, 107. M ennonites in Paraguay, in 1939—in 1945. Waldner. Ap '53. 95. GENEALOGY Ja '40, SS. FREEMAN Hertzler-Hartzler Family History. (Book re New Mennonite Institutions in Europe. Ap Mennonites of South Dakota. J. D. Unruh. view). Silas Hertzler. Ap '54, inside bade '52 52. Jul '50. 2. cover. Spiritual Values of Contributing to Relief. A Printcry on the Pruirie. Elma Walt.’ier. History of one Branch of the Krehbiol Fami A p '47, 5. Ja '52. 16. ly (Book review). W. J. Krehbiel. Oct FAST, Karl FRETZ, Clarence '52. 179. Gebt der Wahrheit die Ehre. I Book review). A Sight-Seeing Tour of Philadelphia. Jul Landis Family Book. (Book review). Ira D. Oct '53, inside back cover. '47. 24. Landis. J u '53. 48. FR ET Z. Ely R. FAST, Martin Tree at Whitewater. J. W. Fretz. Ap '50, 11. Eastern District Brotherhood. Oct '54, 167. GENERAL CONFERENCE Mennonite Church Literature of the Russo-Canadian Menno FRETZ, John E. nites. J. H. Junzen. Ju '40. 22. Beginnings of Missions in Oklahoma. Chris Rctrent Camp Grounds—Men-O-Lnn. Jul '47, tia n Krehbiel. J u '55, 108. FELTO N , R alph A. 6. Believer’s Church Conference, August 23-25, Mennonite Brethren, Corn, Oklahoma. Ju FRETZ, J. Herbert 1955. O ct '54, 185. •55, 121. A Pennsylvania Mennonite Church—West Camp Friedenswald. Robert V. Hartzler. Ju FERNHEIM Sw am p. O ct '47, 33. '55. 125. Mennonite Education in the Gran Chaco. FRETZ, J. W. Contributions of Pioneer David Goerz. D. C. Waldo Hiebert. Oct '47. 28. A Tree at Whitewater. Ap '5(1, 11. Wedel. Oct '52. 170. Pioneering in Paraguay. Ja. '50, 0. A Western Kansas Mennonite Settlement. General Conference Mennonite Missions in Twenty-Five Years, Fernheim. Henry H. Oct '53. 174. India. John Thiessen. Ju '50. 10. Epp. Oct '55, 175. Conferences on Mennonite Cultural Prob General Conference Monnonite Press. Benny Sea also Pnrnguny. lems. Jul '48. 9. B argen. J n ’51, 35. Do You Want Conscription? Jan '48, 29. FICTION General Conference of the Mennonite Church Farming—Our Heritage. Ap '49. 3. of North America. E. G. Kaufman. Ju And the Darkness Became Light. Barbara First Mennonites in Chicago. Ap '53, 56. C. Sm ucker. Ju ’40, 28. '47. 37. Host at Rio—Frederico Arentz. Ap '55, 60. Go Ye Therefore. Andrew R. Shelly. Oct Aspirations of an Onion. A. R. Ebel. Oct Mennonites in Mexico. Ap '47, 24. '50, 38. '52. 176. Auf dem Baschtan. Arnold Dyck. Ju '48, 29. New Frontiers. Ap '51, outside back cover. Gustav Harder. Edith Cinassen Grnher. Oct Blue Hills and Shoofly Pic (Book review). Pilgrims in Pnraguay (Book review). Ja '52, 176. Ann Hark. Ap '54. 95. '54, 46. Hymns Used by the General Conference. Mar Clod. Ray Eldon Hiebert. Oct '51, 39. Planning a Christian Community. Ap ‘51, 34. gie Wiebe. Ap '48, 36. Die Grosse Stube. Arnold Dyck. Ju '46, 27. Reflections at the End of a Century. Jul N. B. Grubb—Editor and Minister. Arthur Dr. Stonepie's Christmas. J. H. Junzen. Ja '47. 33. S. Rosenberger. Ja '51. 42. The Apostolic Christian Church. Oct '51. 19. Peter R. Schroeder—Pastor and Conference '50, 47. The Biography of a Farm. Ap '50, 28. Hans Harder—A Mennonite Novelist. Cor- Worker. Celeste Schroeder Deliriert. Ju '49, .tielius ICrahn. Ap '53, 78. The Colfax Washington Community. Jul '54, 38. 140. Reflections at tile End of a Century. J. W. High Bright Buggy Wheels (Book review). The Conscientious Objector in Recent Liter Luelln Creighton. Oct '53. 189. Fretz. Ju '47, 33. ature. Paul Goering and J. W. Fretz. Samuel Ferdinand Sprungar—Pastor. Con Jacob H. Janzen—Writer. Arnold Dyck. J a '53. 43. J u '51. 33. ference Worker. Eva E. Sprunger. Oct '53 Life with Life (Book review). C. C. Kauff The Mennonite Community at Meade. Jul 178. m an. J a '53. 47. '51. 8. Young People's Union. Grace Miller Neufeld. Mennonites in Fiction—Gnadenau. G. Baerg. The Renaissance of a Rural Community. Ja Ju '53, 12S. Oct '47. 22. '46. 14. GERBER, Samuel Mennonites i.n German Literature 1940-1950. Turkey Growing in Mountain Lake. Oct Swiss and French Mennonites Today. Ap Horst Quiring and Cornelius Krahn. Ap '50, 35. •52, 58. '52. 85. FRIEDENSWALD GERING, John C. Pennsylvania Mennonites in Print. 1940-50. Camp Friedcnswald. Robert W. Hartzler. Printerv on the Prairie. Elma Waltner. Ja James R. Clemens. Ap '52, 83. Ju l '55, 125. '52, 16.
JANUARY 1 9 5 G 39 GERING, Walter GOERTZ, P. S. HARDER, D. E. Catechism Workbook I Book review). Ap '51!. Mennonite Conference, Basel. Ja '48, 47. My F ather. M. S. H arder. J u '46, 44. 94. The Future of the Mennonites in Denmark. HARDER, Ernst Moment» with the Children. Ju ‘C l, 1(19 : Ap Ap '48, 45. Mennonites in Asuncion. Ja '50, 33. ;r. l. 76 : J a 'no. :i(i. GOERZ, David HARDER, Gustav With Prussian Mennonitcs in Denmark. Oct A College Church after Fifty Years. C. E. Gustav Harder. Edith Claassen Gräber. Oct '47. 12. Krchhie). Oct '48, 36. '52, 176. GERMANTOWN Contributions of Pioneer David Coerz. D. C. HARDER, Hans Cradle of Germuntow.n—Krefeld. Dirk C.it- Wedel. Oct '52, 170. Hans Harder—A Mennonite Novelist. Cor tepoel and Roswitha von Beekerath. Ju GOERZ, H. nelius ICrnhn. Ap '53, 78. '47. 22. A Day with the Hutterltes. Ja '53, 14. HARDER, Leland Pioneer Culture of the Plain People. Cordon Die Molotschnacr Ansiedlung: Entstehung, First Mennonite Church. Ap '53. 58. ___ E. Alderfer. Oct ’n(), 30. Entwicklung und Untergang (Book re Pioneer of Christian Civilization in America Sight-Seeing Tour of Philadelphia. Clarence view). Ap '52. 96. (Pieter Cornell's Plockiioy). Ja '49, 41. F retz. J u ’47. 24. Long Ago and Far Away. Jul '48, 4:). Plockhoy and Slavery i.n America. Oct '52, GERMANY GOERZEN, J. W. 187. Baptists Come Buck to Waldshut. Paul ‘Plnutdietseir and English. Ja '52. 18. HARDER, Leland and Marvin Peachy. Ap '»4. G3. G O E1ERS, W ilhelm G. Plockiioy from Zuirk-zcc (Book review). Jn Christian Students Face the Iron Curtain. Wilhelm G. Goeters—Fifty Years of Re Erna J. Fast. Ju '53. 111. search. Cornelius K rahn. A p '53, 89. HARDER, H. M. Christian Witness in War and Peace. C. C. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgr.ug von Northern District Brotherhood. Oct '54, 17(1. Regier. J a ‘49, 17. W anderers N acht lie:!. Ju l '49. back cover. HARDER, Marvin Cradle of Germantown—Krefeld. Dirk Catte- GOLTERMAN. W. F. The Supreme Court and the C. O. Oct '52, poel and Roswitha von Beekerath. Ju '47, Mennonite World Conference Impressions— 185. 22. A Dutch View. A p '49, 28. HARDER, Milton J. Die"‘Fh:clit 1943-40. J. Ncufeld. Ja '51, S. GOODWILL CRUSADE HALL “Die Mennoniten" at Espelkamp. Ju '52. 103 "Die Mennoniten” at Espelkamp. Milton J. Mennonites of Ontario Today. Andrew R. HARDER, M. S. H arder. Ju '52, 109. Shelly. Oct '50. 17. A Pioneer Educator—Johann Cornies. Oct Die Mc.nnoniten zu Hamburg. Otto Sclio- GORTER, S. H . N. '48. 5. _ waiter. Ap '50, 36. Destruction and Re-Construction of Men My Father. Ju '46. 44. Dispersed Mennonite Youth. Wolf scan it Fie- nonite Churches in Holland. Ja '46, 31. HARDER. H. N. guth. Ap '53, 74. GOSHEN COLLEGE He Is Risen, as He Said. Ap '51. 3. Escape from Communism 1943-46. Jo hann Times in Which I Lived, II. N. E. Byers. HARDER, Waldo D. Rempel. Ja '51, 6 . Ap '52, 77. Mennonite Cattlemen. Ap '47. 1 1 . Espelknmp (Book review). Emily Brunk. Ju GRÄBER, Arthur J. HARK, A nn '52, 144. Swiss Mennonites—Pretty Prairie. Ap '50, Blue Hills and Shoofly Pie (Book review I. From Gronau to Canada. Siegfried Janzen. 30. Ap '54, 95. O ct '51. 34. GRÄBER, Edith Claassen. HARMS .John H. Geschichte der Stadt Krefeld (Book review). Gustav Harder. Oct '52, 176. John H. Harms—Pioneer Mennonite Doctor. G ottfried Buschbell, Ju '55, 144. GREBEL, Conrad E. M. H arm s. Oct '49, 13. Go Ye Therefore. Andrew R. Shelly. Oct Conrad Grebol, 1498-1526 (Rook review). Ja HARMS, Orlando "55, 177. '51, 46. The Mennonites of Wichita Worship, Ju Hans Harder—A Mennc.nite Novelist. Cor Mennonites Return to Zuerich. Paul Peachy. nelius Krahn. Ap '53, 78. Ju '53, 107. HARRIS Sylvia Impressions of Mennonites in South Ger GRAEFF, Arthur D. Interlude in the Shenandoah. Ja '49. 38. many. Robert ICreider. Ja '47. II. Pennsylvania Germans in Ontario, Canada HARSHDARGER, Eva In the Name of Christ. Erna Fast. Ap '50, (Book review ). A p '49, 43. G randm other's Q uilt. O ct ’ IS. 12. 35. GRAND RIVER HARTZLER, J. E. Mennonite Churches in South Germany. Paul Grand River (Book review). Mabel Dunham. Philosophy in the Mennonite Tradition. Ap Schowalter. Ja '52, 14. Oct; '50. 45. '48. 43. Mennonites of Krefeld. Walter Risler. Ap GRASS HARTZLER, Levi '51, 26. Grass for the Good of the Land. A. D. Bethel Mennonite Church. Ap '53, 6 0 . Mennonites the World Over. Cornelius Stoesz. Ap '54, 60. HARTZLER, Robert W. K rahn. J a '40, 29. See also Soil Conservation. Cam p Friedensw ald. Ju '55. 125. New Mennonite Institutions :,n Europe. GRATZ, Delbert HEALTH Henry A. Fast, Ap '52, 52. Background of Apostolic Christian Church Das Gesundsheitswesen in Chortitzn. I). A. Open Air Play: Die Neue Heimat. Arnold (Book review). Oct '51, 20. Hamm. Ap '55, 84. Reader. J u '53, 118. GREBEL, Conrad Health Conditions Among the Mennonites of Our Pax Boys in Europe. Curtis Janzcn. Ap Conrad Grcbel 1498-1526 (Book Review). Mexico. C. W. Wiebe. Ap '47, 43. '54. 80. Harold S. Bender. Ja '51, 46. HEESE, Heinrich Pioneering in Paraguay. Ja '50, 6 . Cradle of the Mennonite Church. John C. Heinrich Heese (Book review). David H. Menno Simons Monument, Print Shop and Wenger. Ja '17, 6 . Epp. Oct '53, inside back cover. Linden Tree near Hamburg. Ju '52, 120. GRONAU HEINRITZ, Lotte Sight-Seeing Tour of Emden—Before and From Gronau to Canada. Siegfried Janzen. Women’s Odyssey. Ap '48. 19. After. Abraham Fast. Ja '49, 30. Oct. '51, 34. HENDERSON Vision of Our Day. Robert ICreider. Ja GROSS, Harold '48, 5. Church Youth Give Plays. Arthur Isaak. Reflections on Kant and the Meanonites. A p '54, 6 6 . Vocation of the Swiss and South German Ju '46, 33. Remaking a Community—Henderson, Ne Anabaptists. Robert ICreider. Ja '53, 38. GROSS, Jacob T. braska. J. J. Friesen. Oct '50. 1 0 . GINGERICH. Freeman and Mary Jacob T. Gross—A Mennonite Business Man. HERALD BOOK STORE Thousand Evenings—Well Spent. Ja '46, 1 2 . J. D. Unruh. Ja '47, 28. Herald Book and Printing Company. Ja GINGERICH, Melvin GRUBB, N. B. Alexanderwohl Schnurbuch. Ja '46, 45. N. B. Grubb—Editor and Minister. Arthur HERSHBERGER, Guy F. A C entury in Iow a. J a '47, 24. S. R osenberger. J a '51, 42. Mennonite Church—the Second World War Mennonite Bibliography. Ap '47, 46 ; Ap '48, GRUNAU. P. C. (Book review). Ju '52. 142. 4 7 ; Ap '49, 40; A p '50. 44 ; Ap '51, 42: North Enid Mennonite Brethren Church. War, Pence and Nonresistmice (Boak re Ap '52, 90: Ap '53 91 ; Ap '54, 92. Oct '54, 176. view ). A p '54, 94. Mennonite Research in Progress. Ap '49, 42 : GUYER, Joan HERTZLER, Silas Ap '50, 43 ; Ap '51, 41: Ap '52, 89; Ap Edward J. Linscheid—Artist-Farmer. Ju Hertzler-Hnrtzler Family History (Book re '53, 90 ; Ap '54. 91 ; Ap '55. 90. '53, 113. view). A]) '54 inside back cover. Mint Farming in Southern Indiana. Oct '49, GUTH, Christian Revival of Parochial Elementary Education. 40. Swiss Galician Mennonites. W. Kuhn. Ja Oct '49, 42. Mennonites of Alberta. Ap '54, 56. ’53. 24. HESSTON COLLEGE Service for Pence (Book review). Ap '50, 46. Hesston College. Oct '48. 28. Twenty-Three Mile Furrow. Ju '49, 6 . H IEBERT, C. GLUECK, Theodor H HABEGGER, Loris From Farmer to Office Craftsman. Harold Botschaft und Nachfolge (Book review). Ap Vogt. J a '53. 36. '50. 48. Realizing a Dream. Ja '54, 16. HAMBURG HIEBERT, P. C. and William T. Snyder GNADENAU Are the Doors of Mexico Open to Mennonite Mennonites in Fiction—Gnadenau. G. Basrg. Mennoniten zu Hamburg. Otto Schowalter. Oct '47. 22. Ap '50, 36. Immigrants? Ap '47, 45. HAMM. D. A. World Conference Impressions. Ju *53, 105. Mennonite Village in Kansas. Alberta Pan- HIEBERT. Ray Eldon tie. Oct '47. 20. Das Gesundheitswesen in Chortitzn. Ap '55, 84. The Clod. Oct '51, 39. GOERING, Jacob D. HIEBERT. Waldo See Mennonites and Mental Health. Jul '54, HAMM FAMILY 133. Background of a Mennonite Family—Hamm. Mennonite Education in the Gran Chaco. GOERING, Oswald Horst Penner. Ju '49, 18. Oct '47, 28. A Good Recreation Program. Ja '54, 7. HARDER. Alexander See Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju '54, From Plow to Brush—Alexander Harder. 126. GOERING. Paul and J. W. Fretz O ct '53. 117. HILDEBRAND, J. J. The Conscientious Objector in Recent Liter HARDER. Bernhard Sibirien (Part I), Geschichte der Evangelis a tu re. J a '53, 43. Literature of the Russo-Canudian Menno chen Mennonitcn-Gottesgcincinde in Si GOERING, Sam J. nites. J. H. Janzen. Ja '46, 22. birien (Part TI) (Book revi'-w). Ap '53, 96. With the Swiss Mennonites Today. Ja '47, 8 . HARDER, Ella Judy Von der Sichel bis zum Combine. Ju '51, 20. GOERTZ, Leo See Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju '54, HILLSBORO Innkeepers. Ja '48, 3. 133. firmiert hui—75 Years Ago. Ju '49, 4.
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I Hillsboro-Mennouite Community Center. HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP Mennonites in Winnipeg. G. Lohrenz. Ja ’51. Marion W. Kliewer. Ja T.-1, 12. The Mennonites of Ontario Today. Andrew 16. Mennonite Brethren Press. P. H. Bacrg. Ja It. Shelly. Oct ’59. 17. Mennonites of Krefeld. Walter Risler. Ap ’51. :ik. HUBMAIF.R. B. ’59, 26. Religious Education in Public Schools. Baptists Come Back to Waldshut. Paul Mennonites of Ontario Today. Andrew R. Prank Krause. Oct ’•19. 44. Peachy. A n ’54. 63. Shelly. Oct ’50, 17. Hl LTV. Peter HUNSBERGER. Dorothy M. Planning a Christian Community. J. W. Happy New Year—Froehliches Neujahr. Ja Going to Market—Philadelphia. Oct ’52, 166. Fretz. Ap '51. 34. ’55. :l(i. HUNSBERGER, Wilson Shafter-Wasco Community. Vernon Neufeld. HOEPPNER, J. N. The Danzig Mennonite Church Buildings To O ct '51, 158. Early Days Ln Manitoba. Ap ‘51, 11. day. Ju l ’49. 19. Sunflower Rebuilds Community. J. J. Sie HOFER, Peter HUTTERIAN BRETHREN m ens. J u ’49, 28. Hutterinn Brethren and Their Beliefs. Oct H u tterian B rethren a t Prim avera. J a ’59, 34. See also Agriculture, Farming. ‘55, 192. HUTTERITES INMAN HOFFNUNGSAU Account of our Religion, Doctrine and Faith Inman Bethel Mennonite Church. Peter T. Hoffmingsau in Kansas. A. .1. Dyck. Oct (Book review). Ap ’52, inside back cover. Neufeld. Ju ’53, 132. ’•19. 18. Christian Love in Action—the Hutterites. INSTITUTIONS HOHMANN. Walter H. Robert Friedmann. Ju '46, 38. Contributions of Pioneer David Goerz. D. Transition in Worship. Ja. ’46. 8. A Day with the Hutterites. H. Coerz, Ja C. Wedel. O ct ’52, 170. HOLLAND ‘53. 14. Hillsboro—Mennonite Community Center. Agricultural Training in Holland. U. Veen- THE DREAM GATE (Book review). Marcus Marion W. Kliewer. Ja '54, 12. stra. Ju ’55, 11. Buell. Oct. ’50, 47. In Europe. Harold W. Buller. Oct ’51. 23. Amsterdam Assembly of Churches. Albert J. Frontier Community. Roland Bainton. Ja Mr.nnoniteH in Winnipeg. G. Lohrenz. Ja Pen,ner. Ap ’49. 33. ’54. 34. ’51, 16. Camping of Dutch Mennonite Youth. Folkert Hutterian Brethren and Their Beliefs I Book Mennonites of Ontario Today. Andrew R. J. van Dijk. Ju ‘55, 127. review). Peter Hofer. Oct ’55, 192. Shelly. Oct ’50, 17. Century of Mennonite Missions. A. Mulder. Jacob T. Gross—A Mennonite Business New Mennonite Institutions in Europe. J a ’48, 12. M an. J . D. U nruh. J a ’47. 28. Henry A. Fast. Ap '52. 52. Destruction and Reconstruction of Mennonite Mennonites of South Dakota. J. D. Unruh. See also Schools, Hospitals etc. Churches in Holland. S. H. N. Gorier. Jul ’50, 2. IOWA J a ’46. 31. Of Hutterite Books. Rotiert Friedman. Ap Century in Iowa. Melvin Gingerlch. Ja '47. Disaster in Holland. Irvin B. Horst. Ap ’53. ’52. 81. 24. 77. HYLKEM A. C. B. From the Krehbiel Family Album. Emma K. Dutch Mennonite Missions during the War. C. B. Hylkemu (1879-1948). G. W. Hylkemn. Bacbma-in. Ju '55, 135. D. Amstutz. Ja ’48, 16. Jr. ’55. 43. Mennonites Settle in Lee County. Iowa. Dutch Mennonite Youth. Piet Doves. Ju ’48. HYLKEM A. T. O. Vernon N eufeld. O ct '53, 170. 11. Good Old F risian . J . I). U nruh. Ap ’51, 31. ISAAIv, Arthur Dutch Mennonite Youth during the War and HYMNARY Church Youth Give Plays. Ap '54, 66. A fter. Henlc Ens. Ju ’48, 15. Danzig Choral Buch. Vernon NeufeUI. Ap ISAAK, Marjorie Linseheid. Dutch Men.nonites Unite during Crisis. Piet ’48. 35. Plain Dress. A p ’55, 65. van der Meulen. Ju ’48, 20. Handbook to Mennonite Hvmnary (Book re Ethnic Origin of the Mennonites from Rus view). Lester Hosteler. Ap ’5«. 46. sia. Cornelius Krahn. Ju ’48, 45. M.B. Church Hymnal (Book review). Ju ’54, JA N SZ, P. Experience of the Dutch Mennonites during 144. Century of Mennonite Missions. A. Mulder. the Last World War. N. van der Zijpp. HYMNS Ja ’48, 12. J u ’46. 24. Glaubenshym ne. J . T . Classen. Ju ’52. 137. JANSEN, Nebraska Flooding Walcheren Island. M. de Boer. Hymns Used by the General Conference. Peter Jansen—Pioneer, Lender and Philan J a ’46. 35. Margie Wiebe. Ap ’48. 36. thropist. Cornelius J. Cinassen. Oct '47. 41. Good Old Friesian. J . I). U nruh. A p ’51, 31. Jesus ist Erschienen. Ja ’48, 49. Story of the Jansen Churches. D. Paul Mil In Memorinm—Cornelius Nijdam. H. Crann- Lieder und Tod der Taeufer. John P. Clas ler. J a ’55, 38. d ijk . J a ’47, 33. sen. Ap ’51. 40. Story of Janzen, Nebraska. D. Paul Miller. Mennonites and Doopsgczindcn. Irvin B. Music of the Old Colony Mennonites. Charles Oct ’54. 173. H orst. A p ’51. 29. Burkhard. Ja ’52. 29. JANSEN, Peter see Jansen, Nebraska. Mennonites at Blokzijl, Holland, F. J. Stuur- Songs of the Church. (Book review). Walter JANZEN, A. E. man. Ap ’55. 75. E. Yoder. J u ’54. 144. Survey of Five of the Mission Fields of the Mennonites the World Over. Cornelius Transition in Worship. Walter H. Hohmnnn. Conference of the Mennonite Brethren K rahn. J a ’46, 29. J a ’46, 8. Church .... (Book review). Ap '52, 95. Meppel Mennonite Church. G. Veenstra. I JANZEN, Curtis Oct ’54. 152. ILLINOIS Our Pax Boys in Europe. Ap '54, 8 0 . Musical Instrument in Worship. Vernon Times in Which I Lived. N. E. Byers. Ja JANZEN. Heinz N euf'dd. A p ’48, 33. •52, 44. Jacob H. Janzen—at Home. Ju '51. 35. New Mennonite Institutions in Europe. INDIA Comrade H ildebrnndt. Oct '52, 180. Henry A. Fnst. Ap ’52. 52. Books on Missions in India. Ju '50, inside JANZEN. H. H. Pioneer of Christian Civilization in America. back cover. Strengthening the Peace Witness. Ja '52, 3. Leland Harder. Ja ’49. 41. Dhnmtnri Mennonite Mission. Paul Erb. Ju JANZEN, Johann H. Spiritual Reconstruction. C. Nijdam. Ja ’59, 24. Months of the Year. Oct ’51, 13. ’47, 31. Fellowship in (he Gosnel—India (Book re JANZEN. Jacob H. See also Books in Review, Biographies. view ). Mrs. H arold U atzlaff. Ju ’51. 45. Books by J. H. Janzen. Ju ’51. 42. HOLSINGER. Justus G. General Conference Mennonite Missions in Jacob H. Janzen als Prediger. N. N. Dried- Serving Rural Puerto Rico (Book review). India. John Thiessen. Ju ’50. 1 0 . ger. J u '51, 39. J a ’53, 47. Go Ye Therefore. Andrew R. Shelly. Oct '55. Jacoii H. Janzen—Writer. Arnold Dyck. Ju HOPI 177. '51. 33. Culture in Crisis: A Study of the Hopi In In (he Far East. Ernest E. Miller. Oct ’51, Jacob H. Janzen—At Home. Heinz Janzc.n. dians (Book review). Laura Thompson. 31. Ju ’51, 35. J u ’52, 143. Mennonite Brethren Mission. J. H. Lohrenz. Jacob H. Janzen als Lehrer. Marg. Wilms Ju ’50 29. Rempel. Ju '51. 38. HORSCH. L. J. P. .1. Wiens—Missionary- to India. Agnes Canada. Ju '51. 41. Citrus Fruit Industry of Southern California. Wiens Willis. Ap ’5«. 39. Die Kurgane der Russischen Steppe. Ja ’49, Oct ’47, 4. This is India. Arthur J. Mosher. Ju ’59, 12. 11. HORST, Irvin B. INDIANA Dr. Stonepie’s Christmas. Ja '50, 47. Disaster in Holland. Ap ’53, 77. Mint Farming in Southern Indiana. Melvin Lebewohl. Ju '51, 38. Mennonites and Doopsgesinden. Ap ’51. 29 r’in.'ortch. Oct ’49, 49. Plautdietsch. Ap '47. 47. Men.nonites in Amsterdam. Ju ’52, 113. INDIANS Literature of the Uusso-Canadian Menno- Ministry of Goodwill. Oct ‘51, 44. See Chevenno, Houi, Oklahoma. nitps. Ja ’46. 22. Simplicity Laments Corrupted Manners. INDUSTRIAL ARTS JANZEN. Siegfried. Pieter Lnngcndijk. Introduction and Industrial Arts in a Mennonite College. P. From Gronau to C anada. O ct '51. 34. T ran slatio n . J u ’55, 129. R. K aufm an and Menno Stocky. Ju ’54. JAPAN HOSTETLER, Charity- 195. Go Ye Therefore. Andrew R. Shelly. Oct ’55. Folk Art of the Pennsylvania Gennnns INDUSTRY 177. (Book review). Ju ’47. 35. Agriculture Among the Mennonites of Rus In the Far East. Ernest E. Miller. Oct '51. sia. Cornelius Ki-ahn. Ja ’55. 14. 31. HOSTETLER, John A. Buhler Mill and Elevator Company. _ Louis JAVA Amish Life (Book review). Ap ’53, 95. Reglet- and H arold M. Regier. Ap ’53, 82. Century of Mennonite Missions. A. Mulder. Amish Problems at the Diener-Versammlung. Citrus Fruit Industry in Southern California. J a ’48. 12. Oct ’49. 34. L. J. Horsdi. Oct '47. 4. Dutch Mennonite Missions during the War. Annotated Bibliography of the Amish (Book Cultural Achievements of the Chortitza Men 1>. Amstutz. Ja '48, 16. review). Oct ’51, 44. nonites. Waiter Kuhn. Ju '48. 35. In the Far East. Ernest E. Miller. Oct ’51, M ennonite Life (Book review ). A p ’55, 96. D. G. Rempel’s Adventure in Toy Manu 31. Pioneering in the Land of the Midnight Sun. factu rin g . J a ’50. 41, Javn—a New Opportunity. Martin H. ’48, 5. From Farmer to Office Craftsman. Harold Schräg. J a '48, 20. HOSTETLER, Lester Vogt. J a '53. 36. JOST, Arthur Handbook to Mennonite Hyinnary (Book re Grape and Raisin Industry. Arnold C. Ewy. See Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju '54. view ). Ap ’59, 46. Oct ’50, 4. 133. Mennonite Citrus Fruit Growers. Oct’47, 8. Jakob G. Niebuhr Fabriken. Ja ’55. 25. JOST, Norma ami Ruth Carper. The Future of our Church Music. Ap ’48, 37. Mennonite Industry in Russia. Ja '55, 21. Einsteigen Bitte! All Aboard. Ju '52, 100.
JANUARY 1956 41 JUN'GAS, Marian KIRCHHOFEU, Delvin '55. 10S. N um ber 1,001 on How I» Diet. V irgin in See Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju ’54, KREHBIEL. Henry Peter Toews Stucky and Marion Jungns. Oct 12«. Henry Peter Krehbiel (1862-1946). Elva '54. ISO. KLASSEN, J. P. Krehbiel Leisy. Oet '54, 1G2. M other and Child etc. Ju '-IS, 3f. KREHBIEL, C. E. K Plowing till Steppes. Ja '46, 48. A College Church after Fifty Years. Oct KANSAS KLA SSEN , Men.no '■IS, 36. Alexanderwahl Villages—Kansas, 137-1. Oct Adventures in Chaco Agriculture. Oct '52, Our Share in the Mennonitisches Lexikon. •■1». til. 152. J u '46. 9. Amish i.n Kansas. D. Paul Miller. Ap '51. 20. KLASSEN, P. J. KREHBIEL. Olin H. Am ong the M ennonites o f K ansas in 1373. The Literature of the Russo-Cnnadian Men The Berne Community. Ju '-17. 17. C. L. Bernnys. Oct MO. 20. nonites. Jn '40, 22. World Conference Impressions. Ju '53, 106. Beginnings of Secondary Education in KLASSEN, Peter KREHBIEL, W. J. Kansas. P. J. Wedel. Oct MS. U. Mennc.nites in Brazil. Ja '47, 37. History of One Branch of the Krehbiel Bruderthal—71 Years Ago. Ray Punk. Ju KLEINE GEMEINDE Family. (Book review). Oct '52, 179 •10, 4. From Russia to Meade. Cornelius Krnhn. Ju KREIDER, Rachel Buhler Mill and Elevator Company. Louis '51. 18. One Hundred Years in Wadsworth. Oct Reiner and Harold M. Reiner. Ap '53, 82. From Russia to Mexico—The Story of the '53, 161. Editor Abraham L. Schellenberg. T. R. Kleine Gemeinde. Oct '49, 28. KREIDER. Robert Schellenberg. Ja '54, 10. Meade—A Changed Community. Daniel J. A Vision of Our Day. Ja '48, 5. F irst M ennonite Church in Newton 11878- Classen. Ju '51. 14. Impressions of Mennonites in South Ger 1953). J . E. E ntz. O ct Y.3. 153. New Mennonite Settlements in Mexico. Wai many. Ja '47. 11. From Russia to Meade. Cornelius Krnhn. ter Schmiedehaus. Oct '49, 2fi. Vocations of Swiss and South German Ana Ju '51. 18. The Story of the Jansen Churches. Ja '55. 38. baptists. Jn '53, 38. Heinrich H. Ewert—Educator of Kansas KLIEWER, J. W. KRIMMER MENNONITE BRETHREN and Manitoba. P. J. Schaefer. Oct '-18, IS. A College Church after Fifty Years. C. E. The Story of the Jansen Churches. D. Paul Hillsboro—Mennonite Community Center. Krehbiel. Oct ’48. 3G. M iller. J a '55. 38. Marion W. Kliewer. Ja '54. 12. KLIEWER, Marien W. KROEKER, Abraham J. Hoffnungsuu in Kansas. A. J. Dyck. Oct Hillsboro—Mennonite Community Center. Ja Abraham J. Kroeker—Writer and Publish Mil. 18. •54. 12. er. Oct '52, 165. Inman Bethel Mennonite Church. Peter T. KLIEWER. Wnrren KROEKER, J . A. N eufeld. J a Till, 132. A G rain Elevator. A p ’55. 82. The Crosstown Credit Union. Ju '49, 32. Lord’s Handiwork in Our Fields. Richard Be Silent. Soul. Ja ’55. inside back cover. KROEKER, Marvin H. Schmidt. Oct '47. 17. S ong: The Pilgrim . Jn ’55, inside had; Mennonites in the Oklahoma "Runs." Ju Meade—A Charmed Community. Daniel J. cover. '55. 114. Classen. Ju *51, 14. The Goat. Ap ’55. 86. KUEHLER, W. J. Mennonite Community at Meade. J. W. To a Sm all Girl. Ap ’53, 81. Geschiedenis der Ncderlcndschc Doopsgezin- Fret?.. Ju '51, 8. Paul Bunyan. Ju ’54, 104. den in tie zestiende ecuw (Bool: review). Mennonite Village in Kansas. Alberta KNOOP, Fred Ai> '51. 45. P antle. O ct '47. 20. Master Farmers of Lancaster County. Ja KUHN, Walter Mennonites of Wichita Worship. Orlando ’47. 17. Cultural Achievements of the Chortitzu Men- Harms. Ja '53, 4. KOENIGSBEUG nc.aites. Ju ’48. 35. On a Kansas Farm. Ernest E. Leisy. Ja '46, Meanonite Artists—Danzig and Koenigsberg. Swiss G alician M ennonites. Ju ’53. 24. 18. Kurt Kauenhoven. Ju ’49, 17. KUIPER, Frits Pawnee Rock Mennc.nites: Background. Abe KOONT7., Elbert Johan Engelbert van Brake], 1882, 1950. Oct J . U nruh. J u '55, 131. A Unique Relief Project. Ju ’49. 8. 51. 4. Przechowka and Alexanderwohl—. J. A. KRAHN, Cornelius L Duerksen. Ap '55, 70. Active or Passive Christianity. Ja ’40. 3. LANCASTER COUNTY Swiss Mennonites—Pretty Prairie. Ap '50, Agriculture among the Mennonites of Rus See Pennsylvania German 30. sia. J a ’55, 14. LANDIS, Ira D. Trunspluntiim Alexanderwohl, 1374. Oct '49. A Life that Made a Difference. Ap ’50, 8. Landis Family Book (Bonk review). Ja i'5‘1 24. Can these Bones Live? Ju ‘46. 3. 38. The Twenty-Three Mile Furrow. Melvin Com m em orating 75 Yours. Oct ’49. 3. LANGENDIJK, Pieter Gi.ngerleh. Jul '49. 42 MENNONITE LIFE Paul Goering und J. W. Fretz. Ja 'S3, -i.'i. MAPS and Charts North Enid Mennonite Brethren Church. P. Literature of the Rusäo-Canndian Menno Alexanderwohl Villages in Kansas, 1874. C. G runau. Oct ’54, 17G. nites. J. H. Jnnzc.n. Ja ’-IG, 22. Oct ’49, 21. Story of the Jansen Churehes. D. Paul Mil Mennonites in Fiction—(inadenau. G. Bacrg. Berne Community. Ju ’47, 18. ler. Ja ’55, 88. Oct '17, 22. Danzig and Surrounding Territory, Ap M8, Mennonite Brethren Mission. J. H. Lohrenz. Mennonites in German Literature 1940-1950. 11. J u ’50. 29. Horst Quirin« and Cornelius Krahn. Ai» Danzig, East and West Prussia. Ap M8, 11. MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ’52. 85. Eastern District Mennonite Congregations. ’Die Mennoniten’ at Espelkamp. Milton J. Pennsylvania M ennonites in P rin t, 1940- J u ’47, 27. H arder. J u ’52, 109. 1950. James R. Clemens. Ap '52, S.'l. General Conference Mission Stations and Espelkam p. Em ily B runk. Ju ’52, 144. Romance of Low German. J. John Friesen. Schools in Oklahoma. Ja ’55. 103. European Mennonite Voluntary Service. C.il A p '17, 22. Gnadenau Village Plan, 1874. Oct ’47, 20. Redekop. J u ’52, 100. Summer Bible School Material. Paul Shelly. Mennonite Churches in South Germany. Ja From Gronau to Canada. Siegfried Janzen. Ap *49, -15. , . ’47, 11. Oct 51, 28. See also Bibliography, Books in Review, Mennonite Colony near Cuauhtemoc. Chic., In Europe. Harold W. Buller. Oct "51, 23. Fiction etc. Mexico. Ap ’47, 28. In South America. Cornelius J. Dyck. Oct LITTELL, Franklin H. Mennonite Communities in Alberta, Ap ’54, ’51. 27. Anabaptist View of the Church. Ja '53, -18. 50. In the Far East. Ernest E. Miller. Oct ’51, Church and the Spiritunlizers. Ap '55, CL Mennonite Congregations in France. Ju ’52, 31. Community of Saints. Oct '50, 3. 104. In the Name of Christ (Book review). John New Approach to Anabaptist Research. Oit Mennonite Landmarks in Western Europe. D. Unruh. Ja ’53, 4G. '53, 1(17. Ju ’52. 103. In tile Name of Christ. Erna Fast. Ap ’50, LITWILER, John T. Mennonite Mission Fields in India. Ju ’50, 35. Iglesiu Evangelien Mennonita. Ap '53, (13. 12. Java—a new Opporunity. Martin H. Schräg. LOEWEN, Gerhard M ennonite Mission Field in Ja v a . Ja "48. 18. Ja ’48. 2(1. Feldbluonchen. Ja '-18, 23. Mennonite Settlements in Brazil and Para M.C.C. San-Joa JANUARY 1956 43 Health Conditions unions the Mennonites of MISSIONS and Elisabeth Peters. Ap '48, 23. Mexico. C. W. Wiebe. Ap '47, 43. Beginnings of Mennonite Missions. Ju '50, Our Musical Heritage ia the Colleges. David Im Schweisc Deines Angesichts (Dook re inside front cover. H. Siidennan. Ap '48, 23. view). Walter Quiring. Oct ’34, 190. The Beginnings of Missions in Oklahoma. Testing Musical Ability. A.nne Wiehe Miller. Mennonite Life in Mexico. Walter Schmiede- Christian Krehbiel. Ju '55, 108. Ap '48, 30. haus. Ap '47. 29. Bethel Mennonite Church. Levi Hartzler. Ap Transition in Worship. Walter H. Hohmann. Mennonite Life Goes to Mexico. Ju '52. 22. 53, GO. Jn '46, 8. Mennonites in Mexico. J. Winfield Fretz. A Century of Mennonite Missions. A. Muld Vaehel Lindsay Among the Mennonites. Paul Ap '47. 24. er. Ja '48, 12. Erb. A)i '48, 39. New Mennonite Settlements in Mexico. Wal Challenge of City Missions. John T. Neu- See also Hymnnrics. ter Schmiedehnus. Oct '49, 2G. feld. A p ‘53, 57. MUTUAL AID Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth. Ja '52, 24. Daniel F. Bergthold 1876-1948. J. H. Loh- The Alexanderwohl ‘Schnurbuch.' Melvin MIGRATION renz. Ju '51, 3. Gingerich. Ja '46, 45. A m ong tile M ennonites o f K ansas in 1878. Dlmmtan Mennonite Mission. Paul Erb. Je Experiences of the Dutch Mc.nnonites During C. L. Bernays. Oct '49. 20. '50. 24. the last World War. N. van der Zijpp. Arc the Doors of Mexico open to Motino- Dutch Mennonite Missions During the War. J u '46, 24. .nite Immigrants. P. C. Hiebert ami Wil D. Amstutz. Jn '48. 1G. From Militia Tax to Relief. Biodwen Davies. liam T. Snyder. Ap '47, 45. Fellowship in the Gospel-India (Book re Oct '50, 24. Bruderthal—75 Years Ago. Ray Funk. Ju view ). J u ’51, 45. The Great Red River Flood. Ahe J. Unruh. '49, 4. General Conference Mennonite Missions in Ju '51, 2G. Colonin Mennonita in Uruguay—27, de Oc- India. John Th lessen. Ju '50. 10. Mutual Aid in Action. Ja '47, 18. tubre. Ju '49, 15. The General Conference of the Mennonite My Recollections of P. M. Friesen. F. C. Commemorating 75 Years. Cornelius Krahn. Church of North America. Ed G. Kauf Thiessen. Oct '48. 9. Oct '49, 3. m an. J u ’47. 37. Tlie Renaissance of a Rural Community. J. Contributions of Pioneer David Goerz. D. C. Go Ye The',''fore . . . Andrew R. Shelly. Winfield Fretz. Jn ’46, 14. Wedel. Oct '52, 170. Oct '55. 177. 'Flic Spiritual Values of Contributing to Re Die Auswanderung der Men.noniten aus Gh«*mv ,rnr(ler. Edith Claasscn Gräber. Oct lief. H. A. Fast. Ap ’47, 5. Preussen 1788- 1870. A n '51, 37. '52, 17G. A United Witness. Don E. Smucker. Oct ’48, Disaster Ends Russian Mennonite Settle How I Because a Missionary. Rodolph 41. m ents. J a '49, 22. Charles Peter. Ju '55, 4. i; Early Days i.n Manitoba. J. N. Hocppner. Ap In the Far East. Ernest E. Miller. Oct '51, NEBRASKA '51, 11. 31. Highlights and Sidelights of the Mennonites Ein Gedenkblatt in der neuen Heimat. J. H. Lincoln Avenue Gospel Mission. J. S. Men in Beatrice. W. C. A ndreas. Ju '46, 21. Enns. Ju '49, UG. del. Ap '53. G4. Remaking a Community. Henderson, Nebras The Ethnie Origin of the Mennonites from Mennonite Brethren Mission. J. H. Loh- ka. J. J. Friesen. Oct ’50, 10. Russia. Cornelius ICrahn. Ju '48, 45. renz. Ju '50. 29. A Rural Church—Beatrice, Nebraska. Jacob Four Centuries of Prussian Mc.nnonites. Mennonite Home Missions. J. Otis Yoder. T. Friesen. Ap '53, 80. Bruno Ew ert. A p '48, 10. Ap '53. Gl. The Story of Jnnzen, Nebraska. D. Paul From Gronau to Canada. Siegfried Jnnzen. Mennonites in the Oklahoma "Runs.” Mar Miller. Oct '54, 173. O ct '51, 34. vin ICroeker ,Tu '55. 114. The Story of the Jansen Churches. D. Paul From Russia to Canada 25 Years Ago. D. D. Missions in Columbia. Ruth Birkholtz-Best- M iller. J n . '55, 38. Rempel. Ju '48. 42. vader. A nr '49. 3G. NETHERLANDS, The From Russia to Meade. Cornelius Krahn. Ju P. .1, Wiens—Missionary to India. Agnes A Bloodless Conquest. G. Veenstra. Ap '52, '51. 18. Wien« Willis. Ap '50 3" 74. From Russia to Mexico—the Story of the Seventy-Five Years of Missions in Okla Camping of Dutch Mennonite Youth. Folkert Kleine Gemeinde. P. J. B. Reimer. Oct 49, homa. H-rbert M. Dalke. Jn '55. 1 0 0 . J . Dyk. Ju '55, 127. 28. This is Chicago. Andrew R. Shelly. Ap '53, Deventer Mennonite Church. H. T. Tulner. From the Krehbiel Family Album. Emma K. 52. A p '52. 72. Bachm ann. J u ’55, 185. This is India. Arthur S. Mosher. Ju '50. 12. Hidden Church—Pingjum. Sibold S. Smeding. From the Vistula to the Dnieper. Hcrmnn.n United Missionary Society. R. P. Ditmer. Jr. '50. 44. Epn. Oct '51, 14. J u '50, 32. Johan Engelbert van B rakel, 1882-11950. The Future of the Mennonites in Denmark. Vohmtarv Service—A New Approach to Mis Frits Kuiper. Oct '51, 4. P. S. Goertz. A '48, 45. sions Elmer Ediger. Ja '51, 28. Map of Mennonites in tlie Netherlands. Ja. Hoffnungsau in Kansas. A. J. Dyck. Oct MONTANA ■46, 30. '49. 18. Fiftv Years i.n Dnwsnn County, Montana. The Mennonites in Amsterdam. Irvin B. Immigration Laws. William T. Snyder. Ap C hris A. Ruller. J u '54 110. H orst. J u ’52. 113. '48, 4G. How I Became a Missionary, Rudolph Meppel Mennonite Church. G. Veenstra. Oct. Jacob Stucky—Piom-er of Two Continents. Charles Potter. Jn '55. 4. ’54, 152. J. G. Neufeld. Ja ‘49, 4G. It Happened in Montana. Rufus M. Franz. Rembrandt and the Mennonites. H. M. Long Ago and Fnr Away! H. Goerz. Ju '48, Oct '52. 181. R oterm und. J a ’52, 7. 4«. To a littto Shack in Montana. Harold Bullcr. Rembrandt, the Bible and the Mennonites. A Moses of Our Day—David Toews. D. J. An '50. 2G. Cornelius Krahn. Ja '52, 4. Schellenberg. Ju '50, G. MOSHER. Arthur T. Simplicity Laments Corrupted Manners. Pawnee Rock Mennonites: Background. Abe This is Tndi.j J n 7,0, 12. Pieter Langendijk. Ju '55, 129. J . U nruh. J u '55, 131. MOUNDRIDGE See nlso Holland. Peter Dyck’s Story. Jnn '48, 8. Religious F-dii""':no in Public Schools. Frank NEUFELD, David P. Pioneering in Paraguay. Jn '50, G. K rause. O ct '49, 44. Mennonite Conference of Alberta after Presmt Mennonite Immigration to Canada. What We Found in Moundridge. Lloyd J. Twenty-Five Years. Ap '54, 57. J. J. Thiessen. Ju '49, 33. Spaulding. Jn '52, 131. NEUFELD, Grace Miller Przechowka and Alexanderwohl—. J. A. MOUNTAIN LAKE Young People’s U nion. J u '53, 128. Duerkson. A n ’55. 76. Turkey Growing in Mountain Lake. J. W. NEUFELD, J. Sonnenberg: From the Jura to Ohio. James Fretz. O ct '50, 35. Die Flucht—1943-40. Ju '51, S. Reusser. J u ’55, 139. M ULDER. A. NEUFELD, I. G. Third Group Leaving for S. A. (photos). P. A Century of Mennonite Missions. Ja ‘48, 12. Jacob Stucky—Pioneer of Two Continents. J . Dyck. J u ’48, 47. MULLER. Johann J a . '49. 46. This is My Story. Ju ’52, 129. Swiss Galician Mennonites. W. Kuhn. Ja NEUFELD, John T. A Thrilling Story From an Old Diary. Wal '53. 24. Challenge of City Missions. Ap ’53. 57. ter Adrian. Ju ’48, 23. MUI.J.ER. Samuel Grace Mennonite Church. Ap '53, 65. T ran sp la n tin g A lexanderw ohl—1874. O ct ’49, Dutch Mennonites Unite During Crisis. Piet NEUFELD. Peter T. 24. van der Meiden. Ju '48, 20. Inm an Bethel M ennonite Church. J u '53, 132. Von Da.nzig nach Uruguay. Gustav E. Rei MUENTZER, Thomas NEUFELD, Vernon m er. J u ’49, 12. Tim Church and the Spirituulizers. Franklin Danzig Choral—-Buch. Ap '48, 35. j A Welcome to Immigrants. Marjorie Burden. H. Littell. Ap '55, Gl. Mennonites Settle in Lee County, Iowa, Oct. J u '52, 116. MUSIC '53. 170. MILLER, Anne Wiebe Church IIvninM (Book review). Jn '54. 1 44 MENNONITE LIFE In South America. Cornelius J. Dyck. Oet PETERS, Victor and Elizabeth Spiritual Reconstruction. J a ''17, 31. Our Heritage of Music in Manitoba. Ap. NONCONFORMITY „ , , '51. 27. Medical Service under Pioneer Conditions. ’48. 23. Anabaptist Concept of the Church. Erliwid PETTER, Rodolphe Charles W altner. Oct 40. Jo h n It. Schm idt. J u ’47. 13. Basic Issues in Noncomformity. John L. Mc.nnonitc Education in the Gran Chaco. How I Became a Missionary. Ja ’55, 4. W enger. Jn ’54. -12. . Waldo Hiebert. Oct '47. 28. PFEFFERNUESSE General Conference in tile Mennonite Churcn Mennonite Settlements in the Paraguayan Pfeffermiesse, Springeric and Marzipan. of North America. Ed G. Kaufman. Ju Chnco (Book review). Annemarie E. Jo h an n a S. A ndres. J a ’49, 4. '•17. :i7. Krause. Ap ’54. 95. PHILADELPHIA NONRESISTANCE . Tr , Mennonites in Asuncion. Ja '50, 33. Going to Market—Philadelphia. Dorothy M. Dortrine of Love and Ncn resistance. Har.ey Men.-ionites in Paraguay, In 1939 in 1945. Hunsberger. Oct ’52, 1GG. J. Stucky. Oct '55. 192. H. A. Fast. Ja '40. 38. Sight-Seeing Tour of Philadelphia. Clarence Do You Want Conscription. J. W. I'retz. I’araguny Interlude (Book review). Willard Fretz. Ju ’47. 24. Ja '48, 21). „ , _ H. Smith. Ap '51. 46. PHILOSOPHY Mennonite Principles on Europe s Statte and Pilgrims in Parnguny (Book review). J. W. Philosophy in the Mennonite Tradition. J. E. Pulliit. Hermr.m Epp. Ja '48, 17. Fretz. Ja '54, 4G. Hartzler. Ap ’48. 43. Strengthening the Pence Witness. H. H. Pioneering in Paraguay. Ja '50, G. Reflections on Kant and the Mennonites. Janzen. Ja '52, 3. Twenty-Five Years, Fernheim. Henry 11. Harold Gross. Ju ’46, 33. Thoughts of an Outsider on Mention.te Epi>. O et '55, 175. PIONEERING C.P.S. Winslow Ames. Ap '48, 41. PASIvHA, recipe. See Agriculture, Farming, Migration, etc. Where Peace Bogins. Maynard Kaufman. Paskha. Ap '49, 39. PIROSCHKI Oct '52. 147. Russian Easter and Paskha. Wanda L. See also Conscientious Objectors Frolov. A p '52. 75. Recipe. J a ’46, 28 NORTHERN DISTRICT PAWNEE ROCK, Kansas PLATT, Dwight General Conference of the Mennc.nite Church Bergthal Mennonite Church. Pawnee Rock. Anguish. Ap '55, 88. of North America. Ju '47. 37. Victor Sawntzky. Ju '55, 133. PLOCKHOY, Pieter Cornelis Northern District Brotherhood. H. U. Hard Pawnee Rock Mennonites: Background. Abe Pioneer of Christian Civilization in America. er. O ct '54, 170. J. Unruh. Ju '55, 131. Leland H arder. J a ’49, 41. PAX Ploekhoy and Slavery in America. Leland O Our Pax Boys in Europe. Curtis Janzen. Ap H arder. O ct ’52. 187. OBERHOLTZER, John H. '54. 80. Ploekhoy from Zurik-zee (Book review). Le John H. Oherholtzer and His Time. S. F. Our Youth in Christian Service. Harry E. land and M arvin H arder. J a . ’53, 47. Pannabecker. Ju '47, 29. Mur tons. Ap ’54, 77. POETRY Pennsylvania Mennonite Church —- West PEACE Anguish. Dwight Platt. Ap ’55, 88. Swamp. J. Herbert Fretz. Oct '47, 33. See Nonresistance, Conscientious Objector. At New Yenr's Break. Joanna S. Andres. Pennsylfawnish Deitsch. Oct '47, 38. PEACHY, Paul Ja '47. 5. OHIO Baptists Come Back to Waldshut. Ap ’54. G3. Be Silent Soul. Warren Kliewer. Ja. '55. In One Hundred Years in Wadsworth. Rachel Mennonites Return to Zuerich. Ju ’53, 102. side hack cover. Kreider. Oct '53, II>1. PENNER. Albert J. Boys and Dogs. Rachel Albright. Ju '48, 24. Son.nenberg: From the Jura to Ohio. James Amsterdam Assembly of Churches. Ap "49, Canada. J. H. Jansen. Ja '51, 41. Reusser. J u '55, 138. 33. C ontem plation. Jo an n a S. A ndres. J a '4G, 8. OKLAHOMA PENNER, Horst The Dawn, I Deemed, Had Come with Christ. Beginnings of Missions in Oklahoma. Chris Background of a Mennonite Family—Hamm. Harold Duller. O ct ’52, 148. tian K rehbiel. Ju '55, 108. Ju ’49, 18. Der schoenste Klang. J. S. Ja '53, 30. Mennonite Brethren, Corn, Oklahoma. Ralph PENNSYLVANIA Feldbluemehen. Gerhard Loewen. Ja '48, 23. A. Felton. Ju *55, 121. Going to Market—Philadelphia. Dorothy M. The Goat. Warren Kliewer. Ap '55, 86. Meiuionites in the Oklahoma Runs. Marvin Hunsberger. Oct ’52. 1GG. God, Grunt Us Moses-Men. Harold Bulier. K roeker. Ju ’55, 114. John H. Oherholtzer a.nd His Time. S. F. Oct ’52. 148. North Enid Mennonite Brethren Church. P. Pannabecker. Ju ’47. 29. A Grain Elevator. Warren Kliewer. Ap '55. C. Grunau. Oct ’54, 17G. Master Farmers of Lancaster County. Fred 82. Seventy-Five Years of Missions in Okla Knoop. Ja. ’47. 17. Happy New Year— Froehliehes Neujahr. homa. Herbert M. Dalke. Ju ’55, 190. Mennonite Way of Life in the Eastern Dis Peter Hilty. Jn ’55, 3G. OLD COLONY MENNONITES trict Conference. Paul R. Shelly. Oet Haunske enn Greetki. Ju '48. G. Mennonite Life Goes to Mexico. Walter ’47, 39. Herbstabend im Walde. Gerhard Loewen. Schmiedehaus. Ap ’47, 29. Mennonites Establish Themselves :n Penn Jn ’47, 47. Mennonites in Mexico. J. W. Fretz. Ap ’47. sylvania. John C. W enger. J u ’47, 27. I Only Thank and to the Angels Listen. 24. Montgomery County Story (Book review). E. Joanne. A ndres. J a '4G, 4. Music of the Old Colony Mennonites. Charles Gordon A lderfer. A p ’52, 96. Innkeepers. Leo Goertz. Ja '48, 3. Burkhart. Ja '52, 2 0 . Pennsylvania Folk Art, An Interpretation Wanderers Naclitlied. Johann W. Goethe. New Mennonite Settlements in Mexico. (Book review). J. J. Stoudt. Ap ’49, 44. Ju '49, back cover. Walter Schmiedehaus. Oct '49. 2G. Pennsylvania Mennonite Church — West Where Christ Should be Born. Walter H. Pioneering in the Land of the Midnight Sun. Swamp. J. Herbert Fretz. Oct ’47. 33. Dyck. Ja '47. 5. John A. Hostetler. Ap '48, 5. Planning a Christian Community. J. W. Where Men Destroy. Noah Bearinger. Ju '46. ONTARIO Fretz. Ap ’51, 34. 31. Beginnings in Ontario. B. Mabel Dunham. Revival in Our Day. Ford Berg. Ju ’52. 119. K urgan. J a ’49. 28. O ct '50, 14. Revival of Parochial Elementary Education. Lebewohl. J . H . Jan zen . Ju "51. 38. Mennonites of Ontario Today. Andrew R. Silas Hertzler. Oct ’49. 42. Lied des Landmannes. N. Unruh. Ju '51, 22. Shelly. O ct ’50, 17. Lieski jeit nno Koilidsch. Oct '48. 38. Pennsylvania Germnns in Ontario, Canuda PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN My Children Have the Mumps. Joanna S. (Book review). Arthur D. Graeff. Ap Blue Hills and Shoofly Pic (Book review). Andres. Ju ’47, 44. '49, 43. A nn H ark. Ap ’54. 95. Niejaoaschwenach. Ja '49,10. Folk Art of the Pennsylvania Germans. Paul Bunyan. Warren Kliewer. Ju '54, 104. P C harity H ostetler. J u ’47. 35. P lastic Scenery. M ary Toews. Ju ’55, 122. Influence of the Pennsylvania Dutch in the Plaudietsch. J. H. Janzen. Ap '47, 47. PACIFIC DISTRICT CONFERENCE Middle West (Book review). G. M. Lud Pacific District Conference. H. D. Burk Pruyer. Hnrold Bulier. Ju '46. 15. wig. A p ’49. 43. Prnyer. Harold Duller. Oct 52, 148. holder. Ju '51, 24. Pennsylvania D utch A rt. O ct ’53. 169. PACIFISM Romance of Low German. J. John Friesen. Pennsylvania German Barns. Alfred L. Ap. ’47. 22. See Nonresistnnce, Conscientious Objectors, Shoem aker. O ct ’51, G. Mennonite Central Committee. Sagts den Kindern. Fritz Senn. Ap '50, 38. Pennsylvania German Coverlets. Phyllis Simplicity Laments Corrupted Manners. PALATINATE Bixel. Oct ’50, 34. From the Krehbiel Family Album. Emma IC. Pieter Langcmdijk. Ju ’55. 129. Pennsylvania Germans in Ontario. Canuda. Song: The Pilgrim. Warren Kliewer. Ja. B achm ann. J u ’55, 135. Arthur D. Graeff. Ap ’49, 43. Mennonite Churches in South Germany. Paul ’55, Inside Back Cover. P ennsylvania M ennonites in P rin t. 1940- Such Thoughts of Thee. Mariam Sieber Lind. Schow alter. J a '52. 14. 1950. Jam es R. Clemens. Ap ’52. 83. PANK RATZ, Henry- A p ’53, 95. Pc.nnsyifawnish Deitsch. John H. Oherholtzer. The Temptation. Harold Bulier. Ju ’46, 27. Turkey Growing in Mountain Lake. J. W. Oct ’47, 38. F retz. Oct '50, 35. To a Congo Ferry. Mary Toews. Ja ’54, 44. Pioneer Culture of the Plain People. Gordon To a Sm all G irl. W arren Kliewer. A p ’53. PANNABECKER, S. F. E. Alderfer. Oct ’50, 30. From My European Album. Ju '53, 120. 81. PERSECUTION To a Little Shack in Montana. Harold John H. Oherholtzer and His Time. Ju '47, Church of the Restoration. Roland H. Buin- 29. Bulier. A p ’56, 26. Mennonite Seminary in Chicago. Ap '53, 08. to n . J u ’53. 13G. To God und Man. Noah Bearinger. Ju ’46, Mennonite World Conference. Oct '52, 149. Enduring Witness—the Mennonites. Roland 4G. H. Bainton. Ap ’54. 83. Traum und W irklichkeit. J . S. J a ’53, 17. PANTLE. Alberta Great Commission. Roland H. Bainton. Oct Vachel Lindsay among the Mennonites. Paul Mennonite Village in Kansas. Oct '47, 20. ’53. 183. Erb. A p ’48, 39. PARAGUAY PE T E R S , F ran k C. Vor Weihnachten. Gerhard Loewen. Ja ’48. Adventures in Chaco Agriculture. Menno Non-Combatant Service Then and Now. Ja 23. K lassen. Oet '52. 152. ’55. 31. W ars W e Make. N . Peters. J u ’49, 44. Books and Articles on Paraguay. Ja '50, 38. PETERS, G. A. PRAIRIE VIEW Canadians i.tt East Paraguay. J. W. Nickel. Literature of the Russo-Canadian Menno Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju ’54, 118. J a '50. 30. Hutterian Brethren at Primnyera. Ja ‘50. 34. nites. J . H . Jan zen . J a . ’40. 22. PRETTY PRAIRIE Im Schweisse Deines Angesichts (Book re PE TE R S. N. Swiss Mennonites of Pretty Prairie. A. J. view). Walter Quiring). Oct '54, 190. Wars We Make. Ju ’49, 44. G räber. A p ’50, 30. JANUARY 1956 45 PRISONERS OF WAR Camping of Dutch Mennonite Youth. Fol- Resurrection—Demonstration, not Specula Rehabilitation of Prisoners of War. Delmnr kert J. van Dijk. Ju '55, 127. tion. Jacob J. Ens. Ap '53, 51. Wedel. J a MU, 35. Church and Recreation. Robert. W. Tulley. RETREAT See Recrentic.n T his is My Story. Ju ’52. 12». Ju '47, 10. REUSSER, James Vom Grossen Heimweh. Horst Quiring. Ja Good Recreation Program. Oswald Goering. Sonnenberg: From tile Jura to Ohio. Ju ’•1», 34. J a '51, 7. '55, 138. PROVIDENCE Goodwill Recreation Hall. Andrew R. Shelly. REV IV A LS Providence. Jacob Sudermann. Part I. A|i Oct ’47, 44. Revival in Our Day. Ford Berg. Ju '52. 119. ’54. 51 ; Part II, Ju '54, »». Mc.nnonitc Church Camp-Retreats. Betty van RICHERT, D. H. PRUSSA der Smisson. Ju '55, 123. Uncle Davy. Carol R. Andreas. Ja '53, 32. Datizit? Choral Buell. Vernon Neufeld. A|> Mennonitisches Brauchtum. Walter Quiring. RIESEN, Emil R. MS, 35. O ct M», 11. Pathw ays to Peace. J a '49, 2». Daii7.it? M ennonite Church Buildings Today. Realizing n Dream. Loris Hahegger. Ja '54, UISLER, Walter Wilson Hunshert?er. Ju "49, 10. 16. Mennonites of Krefeld. Ap '50, 26. Die Auswanderung der Mennoniten au.« Thousand Evenings—Well Spent, Freeman ROLAND, Albert Preussen 1788-137». Horst Quiring. Ap and Mary Gingerich. Ja MG, 12. Wuldensiuns—Their Heroic Story. Ap '50. 16. ’51, 37. REDEKOP, Cal ROSENBERGER. Arthur S. Four Centuries of Prussian Men-nonites. European Mennonite Voluntary Service. Ju N. B. Grubb—Editor and Minister. Ja '51. Bruno Ewert. Ap '48. II. '52, 106. 42. From the Vistula to the Dnieper. Hermann RED RIVER see Manitoba. ROTERMUND, H. M. Epp. Oct '51. 14. REEDLEY Rembrandt and the Men-nonites. Ju ’52, 7. Future of the Mennonites in Denmark. P. S. Grape and Raisin Industry. Arnold C. Ewy. Goertz, At« '48, 45. Oct '50, 4. ROTH, Roy M ennonites In Germ an L iteratu re <1940- Mennonite Brethren Church—Reodley, Cali Christmas for Christians. Ja ’54, 3. 1)150). H orst Quirint? and Cornelius K rnhn. fornia. J. B. Toews. Oct '54, 151. ROTTERDAM A p '52. 85. REGIER, Arnold Destruction and Re-Construction of Menno My Mission as an Artist. Marie Birkholtz- An Open Air Play: Die Neue Heimat. Ja nite Churches in Holland. S. H. N. dorter. Bestvater. At« '54, 53. '53. 118. J a '46, 31. Przechowka and Alexanderwohl. J. A. Duerk- REGIER, Bernard W. RU RA L LIFE sen. Ai> '55, 7G. Music and Mennonite Youth in the Prairie Biography of a Faini. J. W. Fretz. Ap '50, Thrillint? Story from an Old Diary. Walter States. A]) '48, 29. 28. Adrian. Ju '48, 23. REGIER, C. C. Butchering. Oct '51, 12. Women's Odyssey. Lotte Hein ritz. Ap '48, Christian Witness in War and Peace. Ja Colfax Washington Community. J. W. Fretz. 1». •4». 17. Ju '54, 140. See niso Dnn/.it?, Germany. REGIER, Hans E. I Rem em ber B utchering. Reubc.n Funders. PUBLICATIONS Purebred Livestock. Ap '47, 16. O ct '47, 24. Abraham J. Kroeker—Writer and Publisher. REGIER, Louis R. and Harold M. Master Farmers of Lancaster County. Fred Oct '52, 155. Buhler Mill and Elevator Company. Ap '53. Knoop. J a '47, 17. Contributions of Pioneer David Goerz. L). C. 82. Mennonite Brethren, Corn, Oklahoma. Ralph Wedel. Oct '52, 170. REIMER, Cornelius C. A Felton. Ju '55, 121. Editor Abraham L. Schellenberg. T. R. Mennonite Relief Work in Russia. Ja '49, 14. Mennonites of South Dakota. J. D. Unruh. Scheilenbert?. Ja '54, 1». REIMER, Gustav E. J u '50, 2. General Conference Mennonite Press. Benny Von Danzig nach Uruguay. Ju '49, 12. Mennonites Settle in Lee County, Iowa. B arren. J a '51, 35. REIMER. P. J. B. Vernon Neufeld. Oct '53. 170. Herald Book and Printing Co. Ja '51, 40. From Russia to Mexico—the Story of the Planning a Christian Community. J. W. Mennonite Brethren Press. P. H. Berg. Ja Kleine Gemeinde. Oct '49, 28. F retz. A p '51. 34. '51. 38. R E L IE F See also Agriculture, Farming, Amish, Kan Mennonite Encyclopedia. Cornelius Krnhn. Care. J. N. Weaver. Ja '51, 4. sas, Manitoba, etc. Oct '55. 191. Christian Witness in War and Peace. C. C. Mennonite Life—From Editors to Readers. Regier. J a M9. 17. RUSSIA Abraham J. Kroeker—Writer and Publisher. Ja '51, 48. From Milita Tax to Relief. Blodwen Davies. Mennonite Publishing House. Ford Berg. Oct 50, 24. Oct '52, 165. J a '51, 32. Impressions of Mennonites in South Ger Agriculture Among the Mennonites of Rus N. B. Grubb—Editor and Minister. Arthur many. Robert Kreider. Ja '47. 11. sia. Cornelius Kruhn. Ja '55, 14. S. Rosenberger. Ja '51, 42. In Europe. Harold W. Buller. Oct '51, 23. Alexanderwohl Sch.nurbuch. Melvin Gingerich. Printery on the Prairie. Elma Waltner. Ja In the Name of Christ. Erna Fast. Ap '50. J a . '46. 45. 'ö l, 42. _ 35. Auswanderung der Mennoniten aus Preussen See also Bibliography, Literature. Mennonite Central Committee Witness. Orio 1788-1870. H orst Q uiring. A]) '51, 37. PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0. Miller. Oct '51, 21. Comrade Hildebrandt. Henry Janzen. Oct Public Schools and Religious Education. Mennonite Relief Work in Russia. C. C. '52, 180. Milo Stucky. A p '54, 71. Reimer. J a '49. 14. Cultural Achievements of the Chortitzu Men See also Education. Ministry of Good Will, Irvin B. Horst. Oct nonites. Walter Kuba. Ju '48, 35. '51, 44. Gesundheitswesen in Chortitzu. D. A. Hamm. PUERTO RICO Ap '55. 84. Service in Puerto Rico. Marvin Dyck. Ap Program at Home. William T. Snyder. Oct '51, 36. Die F lucht 1943-46. J . N eufeld. J a '51. 8. '51. 4. Disaster EndH Russian Mennonite Settle Serving Rural Puerto Rico (Book review). Spiritual Values of Contributing to Relief. ments. Ju '49, 22. Justus G. Holsinger. Ja '53, 47. H. A. Fast. Ap '47, 5. Unique Relief Project. Elbert Koontz. Ju Education in Russia. D. T. Enns. Ju '51. 28. ’49, 8. Escape from Communism. 1943-46. Johann Q See also Conscientious Objectors. D. Rempel. Ja '51, 6. QUIRING, Horst The Ethnic Origin of the Mennonites from Die Auswanderung der Mennoniten aus RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Public Schools and Religious Education. Russia. Cornelius Kruhn. Ju '48, 45. Preussen 1788-187». A p '51, 37. From Russia to Canada 25 Years Ago. D. D. Mennonites in German Literature 1940-195». Milo Stucky. Ap '54, 71. REM BRANDT Rempel. J u '48, 42. A p '52, 85. From the Vistula to the Dnieper. Hermann Vom grossen Heim weh. J a M», 34. Rembrandt und the Mennonites. H. M. Rotermund. Ja '52, 7. Epp. Oct '51, 14. QUIRING, Walter Rembrandt, the Bible and the Men.nonites. Grandfather’s Home. B. B. Neumann. Ja Testimony of a Reader. Ap '50, back inside Cornelius Krnhn. Ja '52, 4. '47. 46. cover. R EM PEL, C. J. Jacob H. Janzen—Writer. Arnold Dyck. Ju Johann Cornies—A Great Pioneer. Ju '48, See Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju '54, '51, 33. 3». 188. Hunger. Gerhard Wiens. Ju '49, 9. Mcnnonitisches Brauchtum. Oct '49, 11. REMPEL, D. D. Jacob H. Janzen als Lehrer. Mnrg, Wilms From Russia to Canada—Twenty Five Years Rem pel. J u '51, 38. R Ago. Ju '48, 42. Johann Cornies—A Great Pioneer. Walter RATZLAFF, Richard REMPEL, D. G. Q uiring. J u '48. 30. Brighton Mennonite Church. Ap '53, 64, D. G. Rempel's Adventure in Toy Manu Jakob G. Niebuhr Fabriken. Jakob J. facturing. Ja '50, 41. Niebuhr. Ju '55, 25. RECIPES Long Ago and Far Away. H. Goerz. Ju "48, Kutish Serves mini. Ja '53, 31. REMPEL, Johann D, Escape From Communism 1943-46. Ju ’51, 6. 40. Ivntish Serves Borshtsh and Rasolnik. Ap Mennonite Industry In Russia. Ju '55. 21. '55, 83. REMPEL, J. G. Mennonites on the Air in Western Canada. Mennonite Relief Work in Russia. Cor Kutish Serves Tea and Rolls. Ja '54, 45. nelius C. Reimer. Ja '49. 14. Marzipun. Ja '47, 10. J u '52. 125. Mennonite World Conference Impressions— The Mennonite Stove. J. D. Butler. Oct *49, Number 1,001 on How to Diet. Virginia 16. Toewa Stucky and Marion Jungns. Oct a Canadian View. Ap '49, 25. World Conference Impressions. Ju '53, 110. Mennonites of the Ukraine under Stalin '54. 180. and Hitler. Gerhard Fust. Ap '47. 18. P ask h a. A p M9, 39. R EM PEL J . Soil—Our Mother. Ap '49, cover. Mennonites the World Over. Cornelius Piroschki. J a M6. 28. K rnhn. J a '46, 29. Pfeffernuesse, Springerie und Marzipan. Jo REMPLE, Mariana Lohrenz My Recollections of P. M. Friesen. F. C. h a n n a S. A ndres. J a M0, 4. Henry W. Lohrenz—An Introduction. Oct Thiessen. Oct '48. 9. Russian Easter and Paskha. Wanda L. Fro '48. 32. Neither Are Your Ways My Ways. Cornelius lov. A p '52, 7g. REMPEL. Mnrg Willms Krnhn. Ap '52, 51. Zwieback. Ja ’48, 41. Jacob H. Janzen als Lehrer. Ju '51, 38. Non-Combatant Service Then and Now. RECREATION RESURRECTION F ran k C. Peters. J a '55, 31. Cam]) Friedenswald. Robert W. Hartzler. Ju He is Risen, as He Said. H. X. Harder. Ap Orenburg am Ural. P. P. Dyck. Ap '53, 96. '55, 125. '51, 3. O hrloff an d er M olotschna, J a '49, 29. 46 MENNONITE LIFE Peter Martinovitch Friesen. Peter Bniun. SH ELLY , Andrew B. STAUFFER. W. H. interviewed by Glenn K. A Pennsylvania Mennonite Church, West Rule. . O ct ’ 1 8 . s. „ . „ c A Pioneer Educator—Johann Corn leu. M. Swamp. J. Herbert Fretz. Oct '47, 33. Dressing and Keeping the Earth. Ap ’49, 15. Harder. Oct '18. a. SHELLY. Andrew R. STOESZ. A. D. Przechowkn and Alexander wohl. J. A. Goodwill Recreation Hall. Oct '47, 44. Agriculture among hte Mennonites of Mex Duel-keen. Ap ’So. 76. Go Ye Therefore .... O ct '44, 177. ico. Ap ’47, 40. This Is My Story. Ju ’S-, 1-6. Mennonites of Ontario Today. Oct '50, 17. Grass for the Good of the Land. Ap ’54, 60. A Th rill inn Story from an Old Diary. Mennonites on the Air. Ap '52, 65. Soil Conservation and the Fnrmer. Ap ’49, 6. Walter Adrian. Ju ’48, 23. This is Chicago. A p ’53, 52. STOLTZFUS, Grant M. Transplanting Alexanderwohl, 1874. Oct SHELLY. Paul R. Mental Hospital Experience of Civilian Pub ’49, 24. ... Religious Education and Mennonite Piety lic Service. Ap ’47, 8. Traum und Wirklichkeit. A Sudermn.nn. among the Mennonites of South-Eastern STONEBACK, G. S. Pennsylvania (Book review ). O ct ’53, 190. Mennonites of Wichita Live and Work. Ja Vom Krossen Heimweh. Horst Quiring. da Mennonite Way of Life in the Eastern Dis ’53. 9. '•19, 34. trict Conference. Oct '47. 39. STUCKY. Jucob When Christmas Came. Jack G. Classen. SHOEMAKER, Alfred L. Jacob Stucky—Pioneer of Two Continents. J a '49, 6. Pennsylvania German Barns. Oct '51, 6. I. G. N eufeld. J a ’49. 46. Your Family—the Key to Happiness. Pitirim SIEMENS, J. J. STUCKY. Joseph A. Sorokin. Ap ’51, 8. Renaissance of a Rural Community. J. Jose]ill Stucky and Central Conference. Har See also Agriculture, Farming, Literature, Winfield Fretz. Ja ’46, 14. ry Yoder. Ap ’51, 16. Biography, etc. Sunflower Rebuilds Community. Ju ’49, 28. STUCKY. Menno SIMPLICITY Industrial Arts in a Mennonite College. P. S Simplicity Laments Corrupted Manners. R. Kaufman and Menno Stucky. Ju ’54. SALVATION Pieter Langondijk. Ju '55. 129. 105. The Resurrection—Demonstration, not Specu See also Discipline, Dress, Church Con STUCKY, Milo lation. Jacob J . Enz. Ap 'ölt, 51. cept, etc. Public Schools and Religious Education. Ap Salvation by Science’/ R. C. Kauffman. SITLER, Arlene ’54. 71. O ct '48, 34. M.C.C. Snn-Joaquin Valley Project. Ju ’51, STUCKY, Virginia Toews, and Marion Jungns. SARDIS N um ber 1,001 on How to D iet. O ct ’54, 180. Pioneering in British Columbia. B. B. 4. SLAVERY SUDERMAN. David H. W iens. J u ’4G, 9. Ploekhoy und Slavery in America. Leland Our Musical Heritage in the Colleges. Ap SAItTi, Sandro ’48, 31. The Wnldonsians and the Mennonites. Ap Harder. Oct ’52, 1ST. SM EDING, Si hold S. The Returning Public Service Man. Ja ’46, '50, 21. Hidden Church—Pingjum, Ju '50, 44. SASKATCHEWAN SUDERMAN, Elmer Die Rosenorter Gemeinde in Saskatchewan Portraits of Menno Simons. Ju ’48, 16. in Wort und Bild (Rook review). J. G. SMISSEN, Betty van der Mennonite Bibliography 1947. Ap ’48, 47. SUDERMAN. H. E. Rem pel. J u '51, 45. M ennonite Church Cam]» R etreats. J u ’55, MennoniteH on the Air in Western Canada. 123. Sixty Years in the Banking Business. Ja ’48, SMITH, C. Henry 38. J . G. Rem pel. J a ’52, 125. SUDERMANN, Jakob SA UR, Christopher C. Henry Smith—A Tribute. Harold S. Ben The Pioneer Culture of the Plain People. der. Ap ’50, 4. Der schoenste Klang. Ja '53, 30. Gordc.n E. A lderfer. Oct ’50, 30. C. Henry Smith as I Knew Him. N. E. SUDERMANN, Jacob SAWATZKY, Victor Byers. Ap '50, 5. Providence. P a rt I. A p ’54, 51 : P a r t II. Ju Bergthnl Mennonitc Church, Pawnee Rock. I Find My Life Work. Ja ’46, 9. ’54, 99. J u ’55, 133. A Life that Made a Difference. Cornelius W hy I Am a M ennonite. J u ’55, 142. SCHAEFER, P. J. ICruhn. Ap '50, 3. SU N FLO W ER Heinrich H. Ewert—Educator of Kansas and A Pioneer Educator—N, E. Byers. Ja 48, 44. Sunflower Rebuilds Community. J. J. Sie M anitoba. O ct ’48, 18. Story of the Mennonites. Ap ’51, 44. mens. Ju ’49, 28. SCHELLENBERG, Abraham S. Smith as a Business Man. Carl M. Lehman. SUTER, Ella, W. Editor Abraham L. Schellenberg. T. It. A p '50, 9. What Makes a Woman Beuutiful. Ju ’16, 13. Scheilenberg. Ju ’54, 19. A T ask N ot Ended. At» ’50, O utside back SWISS MENNONITES SCHELLENBERG, D. J. cover. Jacob Stucky—pioneer of two Continents. A Moses of Our Day—Daniel Toews. Ju SM UCKER. Barbara C. I. J. Neufeld, Ja ’49, 46. '50, G. And the Darkness Became Light. Ju ’46, 28. Swiss Mennonites of Pretty Prairie. A. J. SCHELLENBERG, T. R. SMUCKER, Carl F. Gruber. Ap ’50, 30. Editor Abraham L. Scheilenberg. Ja '«4, 19. See Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju ’54, Swiss Volhynian Mennonite Background. Oct 136. ’54, 156. SCHMIDT, H . B. SWITZERLAND Church Discipline in Our Day. Ap '55, 13. SMUCKER. Don E. A United Mennonite Witness. Oct ’48, 41. Cradle of the Mennonite Church. John C. SCHMIDT, John F. SMUCKER, Jesse N. W enger. J a ’47, 6. O Give Thanks unto the Lord. Oct '47, 3. Einsteigen Bitte! All Aboard! Norma Jost Tho Challenge of Easter. Ap '49, 4. Christia.il Fellowship. Ju ’47, 3. SNYDER, William T. and Ruth C arper. J u ’52, 100. Mennonitc Bibliography. Melvin Gingerich, How I Became a Missionary. Rodolphe John F. Schmidt, & Cornelius Krnhn. Ap Are tile Doors of Mexico Open to Mennonite Im m igrants. A p ’47, 45. Charles Fetter. Ja ’55, 44. ’54. 32. Ap ’55, 91. Mennonite Conference, Basel. P. S. Goertz. The Story of a Library. Ap '54, G8. The Program at Home. Oct ’51, 36. SCHMIDT, John F. and Melvin Gingerich Im m igration Laws. A p ’48. 46. J a ’48, 47. Menncnitc Research in Progress. Ap ’54, 91. SOIL CONSERVATION Mennonite World Conference. S. F. Punna- SCHMIDT, John R. Dressing and Keeping the Earth. W. H. beeker. O ct ’52, 149. Medical Service under Pioneer Conditions. Stauffer interviewed by Glenn K. Rule. Mennonite World Conference as Mirrored in J u '47, 13. Ap '49, 15. the Press. Ju ’53, 99. See Mennonites and Mental Health. Ju .i-l, Soil Conservation and the Farmer. A. D. Mennonites Return to Zuerich. Paul Peachy. 118. Stoesz. Ap ‘49, 6. J u *53. 102. SCHMIDT, Richard H. . Why I Practice Soil Conservation. Ap ’49, Swiss and French Mennonites Today. Sam The Lord's Handiwork in our Fields. Oct 12. uel Gerber. A p ’51, 58. '47. 17. See also Agriculture, Farming. With tile Swiss Mennonites Today. Sum J. SCHMIEDEHAUS, Walter SONGS Goering. J a ’47, 8. Ein Neujahrserlebnis in Mexico. Ja '48, 43. Singing Together. J u ’53, 48. Mennonitc Life Goes to Mexico. Ap '47, 29. See also Hymns, Hymnarics. T New Mennonite Settlement in Mexico. Oct SOROKIN, Pitirim A. TABOR COLLEGE ’49. 26. Your Family—the Key to Happiness. Ap O ct ’48, 30. SCHOOLS, sec Education ’51, 8. THANKSGIVING SCHOWALTER, Otto SOUTH DAKOTA Raise the Song of Harvest Home. Erland Die Mennoniten zu Hamburg: Ap ’50, 36. Loretta’s Settlement (Boole review). J. A. Waltner. Oct ’48, 4. SCHOWALTER, Paul Boese. A p ’53. 95. A Modern Pilgrim’s Thanksgiving. Edwin Mennonite Churches in South Germany. Ja Mennonites of South Dakota. D. J. Unruh. Weaver. Oct '47, 9. ’52, 14. J u ’50, 2. TH IESSEN . F. C. SCHRÄG, Martin A Printery on the Prairie. Elma Waltner. My Recollections of P. M. Friesen. Oct ’48, Swiss-Volhynian Mennonite Background. Oct J n ’52. 16. 9. ’54, 156. SPAULDING. J. Lloyd THIESSEN. J. J. Java—A New Opportunity. Ja ’48, 20. What We Found i.n Moundridge. Ju '52, 131. Present Mennonite Immigration to Canada. SCHRÄG, Menno J u ’49. 33. I, Too. Shull Live. Ap ’48, 4. SPRINGER, Nelson P. and John F. Schmidt THIESSEN. John. SCHROEDER, Peter R. Mennonite Bibliography, 1954. Ap ’55, 91. General Conference Mennonite Missions in Peter R. Schroeder—Pastor and Conference SPRUNGER, Arthur L. India. J u '50, 10. Worker. Celeste Schroeder Dehnert. Ju Linolium Cuts of Amish People. Ju '46, 34. TIAHRT, Jeanne K. ’49, 38. 35. H om e-C rafts in O ur D ay. O ct ’4S, 10. SEEMANN, Enoch SPRUNGER, S. F. TOEWS. David Mennonite Artists—Danzig and Koenigsberg. Economic Life of the Berne Community. A Moses of Our Day—David Toews. D. J. Kurt Kauenhoven. Ju ’49, 17. Ju ’47. 19. Schellenberg. J u ’50, 6. SENN, Fritz Samuel Ferdinand Sprunger, Pastor-Confer TOEWS, Gerhard S agts den K indern. A p ’50, 38. ence W orker. Oct ’53, 178. The Literature of the Russ-Canadiun Men SHAFTER STAHLY. Delmar nonites. J. H. Jansen. Ja ’46, 22. Shatter-Wasco Community. Vernon Neu- See Mennonites and Mental Henitli. Ju ’54, TOEWS, J. B. feld. O ct '52, 158. 118. Mennonite Brethren Church—Reedley, Caii- JANUARY 1956 47 t'orniu. Oct ‘54, 151. WALDNEit, Marie WIENS, P. J. TO EWS, Mary For H alf a C entury. Ap '53, 95. P. J. Wiens—Missionary to India. Agnes To it Congo F erry . J a '54, 44. WALTNER, Elmn W iens W illis. A p '50, 39. Plastic Scenery. J u '55, 122. Printery on the Prairie. Ja '52, 16. WIENTZ, Johann TOEWS. Wilma Woodcarving—Elma Waltner. Lena Waltner. Mennonite Artists—Danzig and Koenigsberg. It Wouldn't be Sunday without Zwieback. A p '52, 63. Kurt Kauenhoven. Ju '49, 17. J a '48, 42. WALTNER, Erland WILLIS. Agnes Wiens TO TTEN , Don E. Anabaptist Concept of the Church. Oct '50, P. J. Wiens—Missionary to India. Ap '50, Agriculture of Manitoba Mennonites. Ju ’•!!>, 41). 39. 24. Education for Christian Diseipleship Today. WILLMS. P. D. TOYS Oct '55, 147. Warum Mennonit? Why Mennonite? Oct I). G. Item]de's Adventure in Toy Manufac Raise the Song of Harvest Home. Oct '48, '55. 39. tu rin g . J a '50, 41. 4. WINNIPEG TSCHETTER, Richard WALTNER, Lena Crosstown Credit Union. J. A. Kroeker. Ju Is God Love? O ct '51, 3. A rt A s I See It. J a '47, 46. '49, 32. TULLY, Robert W. WoodearvLng—Elma Waltner. Ap '52. 63. Mennonites in Winnipeg. G. Lohretiz. Ja Church and Recreation. Ju '47, 10. WARKENTIN, Henry A. '51, 16. TULNER, H. P. Welcome to Immigrants. Marjorie Burden. WISWEDEL. Wilhelm Deventer Mennanite Church. Ap '52, 72. J u '52, 106. Wilhelm Wiswedel. Robert Friedmann. Ja UKRAINE WASCO '55, 41. Mennonites of the Ukraine under Stalin and Slmfter-Wnsco Community. Vernon Neufeld. WOHLGEMUTH. Daniel Hitler. Gerlmrd Fast. Ap '47, 18. Oct '52, 158. Daniel Wohlgemuth—An Artist, of Bilde See also Russin. WASHINGTON Liii’ids. Cornelius Krnhn. Ja '54, 4. UNRUH, Abe J. Colfax Washington Community. J. W. Fretz. WOMEN Great Red River Flood. Ju '51, 2(i. J u '54, 140. What Makes a Woman Beautiful? Ella W. Pawnee Rock Mennonites: Background. Ju Story of a Church. Willard Wiebe. Ja '52, Suter. J u '46, 13. '55. 131. 11. WORLD CONFERENCE UN RU H , N. WEAVER, Edwin L. European Reaction. Samuel Geiser. Ju '53. Lied des Landmannes, Ju '51, 22. Modern Pilgrim’s Thanksgiving. Oct '47, 9. 107. UNRUH, J. D. WEAVER, J. N. Fifth Mennonite World Conference, Harold Good Old Frisian. Ap ’51, 31. Care. Ja '51, 4. S. Bender. Ju '52, 99. In the Name of Christ. Ja '53, 46. WEDEL, D. C. Learning One from Another. P. C. Hie- Jaeob T. Gross—a Mennonite Business Man. Contributions of Pioneer David Goerz. Oct b ert. J u '53. J a '47, 28. •52, 170. Mennonite World Conference as Mirrored in Mennonites of South Dakota. Ju '50, 2. , Is There a Voice. Ju ’46, 5. tiie Press. Ju '53, 99. UNRUH, W. F. WEDEL, C. H. Mennonites Return to Zuerich. Paul Peachy. Glimpses from Evanston. Oct '54, 148. College Church after Fifty Years. Oct ’48, J u ’53. 107. URUGUAY 36. Message of World Conference. Ju '53, 101. Colonia Mennonita in Uruguay—27, de Octu- Words to Young Christians. Oct '47, back Most O utstanding. J . G. Rem pel. Ju '53, 110. bre. H. J. Andres. Ju '49, 15. cover. Other Foundation .... Olin A. Krehbiel. Im Sehweisse Deines Angesichts. Walter WEDEL. Helmut- Ju '53, 106. Q uirins, O ct '54, 190. Rehabilitation of Prisoners of War. Ja '49, Strengthening the Strong Points. Allen H. In South America. Cornelius J. Dyck. Oct 35. Erb. Ju *53, 1 0 8 . '51, 27. WEDEL, P. J. WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES Von Danzig nach Uruguay. Gustav E. Rei Beginnings of Secondary Education in Kan Glimpses from Evanston. W. F. Unruh. Oct m er. it '49, 12. sas. O ct '48, 14. '54, 148. V How It Feels to be Seventy-Five Years Old. Tiie Second Assembly of the World Council VANCOUVER Oct '54, 177. of Churches. E. G. Kaufman. Oct '54, 150. Pioneering in British Columbia. B. B. Wiens. WEDEL, Theodore, Ü. WORSHIP J u '46, 9. Christian Church, a Colony of Heaven. Ja The Musical Instrument, in Worship. Vernon VEENSTRA, G. '48, cover. N eufeld. A p '48, 33. Bloodless Conquest. Ap '52. 74. Reminiscences ami Reflections. Oct '48, 39. Transition in Worship. Walt. H. Hohmann. Agricultural Training in Holland; Ju '55,. W EIER H O F J a '46, 8. 111 . From the Krehbiel Family Album. Emma K. Meppel Mennonite Church. Oct '54, 152 . Bacbm ann. J u '55, 135. Y VIRGINIA WENGER, John C. YODER. Edward Interlude in the Shenandoah. Sylvia Harris. Basic Issues in Nonconformity. Ja '54, 42. Christian Simplicity. Ap '47, Buck cover. J a '49, 38. Cradle of Ute Mennonite Church. Ja '47, 6. YODER, Harry VOCATIONS Mennonites Establish Themselves in Penn Joseph Stucky and Central Conference. Ap Mennonites of Wichita Live and Work. sylvania. Ju '47, 27. '51. 16. G. S. Stoneback. Ja '53, 9. Separated U nto God (Book review ). Ju '52, YODER, John H. Vocations of Swiss mid South German Ana 142. Mennonites in a French Almanacs. Oct. '54, baptists. Robert Kreider. Ja '53, 38. WEST SWAMP 154. See also Agriculture,’ Education, etc. Pennsylvania Mennonite Church—West The French M ennonites Today. J u '52, 104. VOGT, Harold Swamp. J. Herbert Fretz. Oct '47, 33. YODER, J. Otis From Farmer to Office Craftsman. Ja '53, WHITEWATER, Kansas Mennonite Home Missions. Ap '53, 61. 30. Gutav Harder. Editli Claassen Gräber. Oct YODER, Sanford Calvin Program Plans on Mental Health. Oct '54, '52. 176. Our Heritage—A Challenge. Ju '49, 3. 185. In Commemoration of Seventy-Five Y’cars in YOUTH VOLUNTARY SERVICE America (Book review) Ap '53, 95. Christian Students Face the Iron Curtain. European Mennonite Voluntary Service. Cal Tree at Whitewater. J. W. Fretz. Ap ’5», 11. Erna J. Fast. Ju '53, 111. Redekop. Ju '52, 10(5. WICHITA Church Youth Give Plays. Arthur Isaak. Ap In Europe. Harold W. Builer. Oct '51, 23. From Whence Came the Mennonites of '54, 66. M. C. C. Snn-Jonquin Valley Project. Ar Wichita. J. H. Lungenwalter. Ja '53, 7. Dispersed Mennonite Youth. Wolfgang Fie- lene Sitler. Ju '51, 4. Mennonites of Wichita Live and Work. G. guth. A p '53, 74. Mennonite» at Espelkamp. Milton J. Harder. 5. Stoneback. Ja '53. 9. Dutch Mennonite Youth. Piet Doves. Ju '48, J u '52, 109. Mennonites of Wichitn Worship. Orlando 11. Mennonite Central Committee Witness. Orie H arm s. J a '53, 4. Dutch Mennonite Youtli During tiie War and O. Miller, Oct '51, 21. WI DM ER, Pierre A fter. Henlc Ens. J u '48, 15. Northern District Brotherhood. H. U. Har Mennonite World Conference Impressions— Young People's Union. Grace Miller Neu- der. Oct '54, 170. n French View. Ap '49, 24. feld. J u '53, 128. Our Youth in Christian Service. Harry E. WIEBE, C. W. M artens. A p '54, 77. Health Conditions Among tile Mennonites of Z Program at Home. William T. Snyder. Oct Mexico. A p '47, 43. ZIEGLER, Jesse H. '51, 36. WIEBE, Margie See Mennonites and Mental Health Ju '54. Voluntary Service—a New Approach to Mis Hymns Used by the General Conference. Ap 126. sions. Elmer Ediger. Ja '51, 28. '48. 36. ZIJPP, N. van der See also Mennonite Central Committee. WIEBE. Willard Experiences of tiie Dutch Mennonites During VOTH. H. R. Story of a Church, Ja '52, 11. the Last World War. Ju '46, 24. Beginnings of Missions in Oklahoma. Chris W IEN S, B. B. Gcschiedcnis der Doopsgczindcn in Neder tia n Krehbiel. J u '55, 108. Pioneering in Britisli Columbia. Ju '46, 9. land (Book review ). J u '53, 144. WIENS, Gerlmrd ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich W H unger. Ju '49, 9. Mennonite Artists—Danzig and Koenigsberg. W ADSW ORTH Mother Tongue Frustrations. Ja '54, 32. Kurt Kauenhoven. Ju '49. One Hundred Years in Wadsworth. Rachel Spring. A p '55, 89. ZW IEBACK K reider. O ct '53, 161. W heat. Ap '55, 89. It Wouldn’t be Sunday without Zwieback. WALDENSIANS WIEBE, G. A. Wilma Toews. Ja '48, 41, 42. Waldensians After World War II. Bertha Wiebe’s Dairy—-A Story of Ambition and ZWINGLI. U. F ast. A p '50. 18. Work. Reuben Funders. Ap '50, 24. The Church of the Restoration. Roland H. Waldensians and the Mennonites. Sandro WIEBE, J. G. B ainton. Ju '53, 136. S arti. Ap "50, 21. J. G. Wiebe Lumber Company. Mrs. Oscar Cradle of the Mennonite Church. John C. Waldensians in America. Ap '50, 23. W iebe. J u '53, 127. Wenger. Ju '47, 6. Waldensians—their Heroic Story. Albert W IEN S. B. B. Mennonites Return to Zuerich. Paul Peachy Roland. A p '50, 16. Cup Reading on a Pitcher. Ja '52. 13. Ju '53. 107. 48 MENNONITE LIFE MENNONITE LIFE An Illustrated Quarterly Published under the auspices of Bethel College: Menno Schräg, Chairman, Sam J. Goering, Vice- Chairman; Arnold E. Funk, Secretary; Chris H. Goering, Treasurer. Executive Board D. C. Wedel E. G. Kaufman R. C. Kauffman Harry Martens H. A. Fast Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary Treasurer Member E ditor Assistant to the Editor Cornelius Krahn John F. Schmidt Associate Editors Advisory Council Harold S. Bender Melvin Gingerich J. G. Rempel Mrs. P. S. Goertz Andrew Shelly J. Winfield Fretz Robert Kreider N. van der Zijpp M. S. Harder Erl and Waltner S. F. Pannabecker Mennonite Life Dinner 1955 Some one hundred-twenty guests accepted our invi tation and came to the Bethel College campus to ob serve with us the Tenth Anniversary of Mennonite Life by attending the dinner and listening to the message of Frank Laubach (see picture). This was a joyful event. Some of our readers gave testimonies at this occasion, others have written us. Some of the testimonies ai-e found below. We as publishers and editors appreciate your encouragement and solicit your further help in suggesting writers and topics to us, in renewing your subscription promptly, and in helping us to win readers in order to safeguard the future of Mennonite Life and improve its contents. Very sincerely, Frank Laubach, speaker at the Mennonite Life Anniversary Dinner. Publishers and Editors READERS’ RESPONSE TO TENTH ANNIVERSARY Dear Editors, Dear Editors, I wish to congratulate you on the success of the first First of all congratulations on your Tenth Anniver decade of Mennonite Life. sary .... You have already saved much that would have N. E. Byers been lost irrevocably and you are greatly enriching Men Decatur, Georgia nonite life .... Dear Editors, You asked in Mennonite Life for suggestions. I have We wish to extend greetings and sincere best wishes one. Have you ever met Dr. Peter Epp? He died last to you on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of year. I think it very important that our Mennonite com Mennonite Life, which has come to our home since its munity should know him better. Plis wife and faithful beginning. By bringing to its readers Mennonite history fellow worker is the only person, I believe, who could and culture, both old and new, it has done much to present a true and living portrait of this man. You awaken and renew an appreciation of our Mennonite would do us all a service if you would ask her to do heritage. We always look forward to every new issue. this for Mennonite Life. Sincerely yours, Cordially Aaron J. and Gertrude Claassen Gerhard Wiens Beatrice, Nebraska Norman, Oklahoma Dear Editors, I love to read every issue of Mennonite Life since An die Schriftleitung, there is so often something about the old country (Rus Schicke Dir hiermit das Lesegeld für ein weiteres sia). Although we left it thirty-five years ago, most of Jahr “Mennonite Life.” Es ist mir gichtig, dass das our loved ones are still there and suffer so much. We Blatt nun schon auf ein zehnjähriges Bestehen zurück pray, “Oh Lord come soon, and bring all this suffering to blicken darf. Das denke ich, ist auch eine Garantie für an end for thy children.” May the Lord bless all of you sein Weiterbestehen. Ich freue mich zu jeder neuen that work on Mennonite Life. Nummer, die zu uns ins Haus kommt. Anna P. Miller Brüderlich grüssend Montezuma, Kansas H. Goerz INDEX MENNONITE LIFE, 1946-1955 This issue of Mennonile Life contains a complete Index (pp. 33-48) to all articles which have been published since the magazine was started in 1946.