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  • were too radical. He retired from politics, devoting his attention to his business, then at Tilburg. He was a close friend of F. A. van der Kemp, once also
    2 KB (416 words) - 16:05, 20 January 2014
  • unique barns which he finds not only in Pennsylvania, but wherever these people have moved during the past century in locations like Ohio, Indiana, Iowa
    37 KB (5,113 words) - 07:33, 1 May 2020
  • done, more or less, in other countries. Being largely an urban people engaged in business and the professions, they have become an integral part of the
    33 KB (4,650 words) - 14:27, 17 March 2023
  • immigration transportation business. These companies regretted that the CPR had secured all of the CMBoC immigration business. In 1926 David Toews representing
    5 KB (728 words) - 20:42, 21 November 2017
  • simple and unadorned. Mennonites all through their history were literate people and preferred to contemplate on Bible texts rather than pictures. Mennonite
    6 KB (761 words) - 02:56, 23 February 2024
  • have not been high; any mature person could attend. Thus large numbers of people unable to meet the requirements of college and seminary were able to get
    45 KB (5,011 words) - 14:23, 17 March 2023
  • contributions, and salary for full-time pastors. The deacons had charge of the business affairs of the churches, served at the communion table, look after the
    41 KB (3,777 words) - 23:29, 24 January 2023
  • Leviticus 5:23; Proverbs 29:24. But it was very frequent in their civil and business life. In the Old Testament the oath was required. The basic passage is
    45 KB (7,424 words) - 15:29, 7 December 2019
  • part of an organized program to preach the Gospel and gather the Lord's people to the Moravian colonies which, in the later 16th century, were prospering
    56 KB (7,446 words) - 19:16, 8 August 2023
  • in the country. From its beginning, Frazer welcomed and attracted local people from non-Mennonite and non-church backgrounds and incorporated them into
    7 KB (821 words) - 19:18, 8 August 2023
  • 52 jars of each. She made catsup, grew sweet corn, and had a strawberry business. She taught her granddaughters to knit, to make hand-made soap, and the
    4 KB (750 words) - 08:37, 20 November 2014
  • pope, emperor, or Turk, I would have less fear of a rebellion from these people than from any other." In no respect then were the Anabaptists negative toward
    79 KB (11,709 words) - 12:00, 19 February 2022
  • volumes. J. F. Lehman, a member of the Publication Board, was made the business manager and served in this capacity for 34 years. The Publication Board
    8 KB (988 words) - 14:25, 25 February 2023
  • all our people, but still more your earnest reply to his nonsense. Share it with us. An evil of this kind usually sticks obstinately with people who have
    82 KB (12,758 words) - 15:26, 7 December 2019
  • Saviour and Redeemer. In the large cities missions were started, rousing the people to personal conver­sion. The Réveil had a typically pietistic back­ground
    41 KB (5,830 words) - 08:20, 16 January 2017
  • prosperous. Mennonites elsewhere in Europe also related their work and business to their religious calling as illustrated by Max Weber's (1864-1920) mention
    6 KB (828 words) - 19:48, 20 August 2013
  • rearing the large family and fulfilling her obligations on the farm. In business transactions and in church and community the responsibility rested entirely
    27 KB (3,957 words) - 23:11, 15 January 2017
  • Failure to provide service opportunities for the young people caused scores of Amish young people to unite with other denominations. One Amish family produced
    12 KB (1,630 words) - 19:13, 8 August 2023
  • mission worker in Oklahoma and Arizona among the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Hopi people. Margaretha (Martha) Richert Penner in 1908 served as one of the first ordained
    24 KB (2,751 words) - 15:13, 9 January 2021
  • to ascertain the extent of mental illness and mental deficiency among our people, and thus the need for church-administered institutional care; second, to
    19 KB (2,794 words) - 19:16, 8 August 2023

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