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- dress features shared by most plain groups of Swiss Mennonite background are the plain coat and the cape dress. The plain coat has a standing collar and44 KB (6,620 words) - 19:18, 8 August 2023
- the Moravians; and (3) the "plain people" (also called Sects). Among the "plain people" (so named because of their plainness in dress) are the various groups11 KB (1,628 words) - 06:37, 16 October 2013
- congregations, some members considering this fashion too worldly for the plain people of Menno. Claes Jacobsz, the preacher of Den Burg on the island of Texel2 KB (363 words) - 16:09, 5 October 2016
- classic Anabaptist literature, and an assortment of pamphlets for the plain people. Biggest sellers are the Pathway Readers, a complete set of stories compiled3 KB (442 words) - 16:26, 18 February 2020
- Order Amish Mennonites." http://www.thearda.com/Denoms/D_1022.asp. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by42 KB (5,898 words) - 14:36, 17 March 2023
- Église de Dieu en Christ Mennonite, Haiti Boynton, Linda Louise. The Plain People: An Ethnography of the Holdeman Mennonites. Salem, WI: Sheffield Publishing66 KB (4,242 words) - 14:54, 23 March 2021
- in 1952. The congregation began with evangelistic meetings among the Plain People of Wayne and Holmes counties. Minister Paul Swartley of Souderton, Pennsylvania3 KB (369 words) - 13:19, 25 February 2021
- themselves as plain people by virtue of their inner values and simple life-style. The Old Order Amish are the largest group of Plain People. The Old Order3 KB (403 words) - 06:55, 16 October 2013
- house by Elder Anken, which a part of his congregation, composed of very plain people, considered too sumptuous and too worldly. The Oude Zwitsers were the12 KB (1,889 words) - 23:10, 15 January 2017
- Gemüths-Gespräch (1769, 1770). Alderfer, E. Gordon. "Pioneer Culture of the Plain People." Mennonite Life 5 (October 1950): 32. The First Century of German Printing3 KB (523 words) - 14:19, 23 August 2013
- lumber business, flour mills, and agricultural machinery. Some of the plain people are still excellent wagon manufacturers. European Mennonites used the9 KB (1,311 words) - 23:00, 15 January 2017
- through an advertisement in The Budget. The area seemed receptive to plain people and suitable for a horse and buggy community. In spring 1998 five families3 KB (334 words) - 15:20, 21 March 2020
- God." The German and Czech versions of the Manifesto appealed to the plain people (Am Volk zweifle ich nicht) ; the Latin version, much milder, addressed50 KB (7,492 words) - 20:32, 23 May 2018
- attempts at fiction appeared in Mennonite periodicals. Jake, a Story of Plain People, by S. M. Grubb, was published in The Mennonite in 1911 and deals with18 KB (2,690 words) - 23:07, 15 January 2017
- Story of the Brethren in Christ. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1978. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by7 KB (1,109 words) - 18:54, 20 August 2013
- Mennonite Quarterly Review 63 (April 1989). Beck, Ervin. "Glass Painting by Plain People." Folklife Annual. Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, 1988.21 KB (3,196 words) - 11:00, 21 September 2020
- Lutheran of Pennsylvania-German stock, some of her works deal with the "plain people," including the Mennonites. Her novel I Heard of a River (1948) tells2 KB (290 words) - 10:53, 23 March 2018
- such a change set young people off into so small a group that satisfactory social fellowship was almost impossible. Few young people could bring themselves61 KB (7,148 words) - 15:18, 11 March 2024
- industrial cities come primarily to see the plain people in their picturesque agricultural community. The People's Place and the Mennonite Information Center12 KB (1,630 words) - 19:13, 8 August 2023
- 1786-1920: The History of a Separate People. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. Epp, Frank H. Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: A People's Struggle for Survival. Toronto:26 KB (2,686 words) - 01:15, 25 January 2023
- the painting of barns in Pennsylvania was introduced around 1830. The "plain people" including the Amish and the Mennonites accepted this innovation but37 KB (5,113 words) - 07:33, 1 May 2020
- of Lancaster Conference. Scottdale, PA, 1931: 130, 139, 148, 385-395. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by14 KB (2,134 words) - 19:15, 8 August 2023
- unknown people in an unknown land." Thanks, among other factors, to the settlements made in the interior by the Mennonites, the land and the people are no7 KB (1,120 words) - 02:22, 29 August 2023
- groups gradually became thought of and often labeled as "the plain people" or "the plain sects." The Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia areas17 KB (2,577 words) - 18:22, 2 December 2013
- congregations along with the need of a winter Bible School for their young people. Most of these ministers were from the midwestern United States. A few were10 KB (777 words) - 13:00, 21 April 2020
- shall be my people." 1 Peter 2: "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people." "But are now the people of God."65 KB (9,570 words) - 19:14, 8 August 2023
- about clandestine luxuries here and there; in short the old plain ways of committed people had tangibly deteriorated, and no one seemed to know how to12 KB (1,901 words) - 00:04, 16 January 2017
- churches, e.g., Hans de Ries in the Grootekerk at Alkmaar in 1638, and the plain people in the cemeteries. It was done in this way until burial in the churches19 KB (2,871 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
- another as much deviated from the old Mennonite plain style of living, the Frisians looking upon the less plain dress and manners of the Flemish as worldly15 KB (2,121 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- a country with numerous cultures, languages, and ethnic groups.Mestizos (people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry) comprise about 34% of the population9 KB (1,112 words) - 13:41, 29 March 2021
- other churches. At the present time the three bodies are holding the young people of their families fairly well." (Burkholder: 41). Other scattered Ontario36 KB (4,699 words) - 00:26, 21 April 2023
- title=Foundation_and_Plain_Instruction_of_the_Saving_Doctrine_of_Our_Lord_Jesus_Christ&oldid=144128. APA style Krahn, Cornelius. (1956). Foundation and Plain Instruction6 KB (1,013 words) - 23:21, 15 January 2017
- instruments in worship, and the use of the prayer veil. While never emphasizing "plain clothes" to the extent that the eastern conferences did, the Illinois Conference14 KB (1,289 words) - 15:48, 30 March 2024
- preaching, holding baptism and communion services, and seeking to bring people of both Mennonite and non-Mennonite background into the church. Although3 KB (531 words) - 03:26, 20 February 2014
- Mennonite Communities in Southern Maryland." Thesis, U. of Maryland, 1951. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by8 KB (1,117 words) - 19:17, 8 August 2023
- calmness marked his relationships with people. In spite of his great wealth and influence Cornies remained a plain Mennonite farmer. Epp, D. H. Johann Cornies11 KB (1,809 words) - 18:53, 13 January 2019
- Geographically present-day Virginia is divided into three areas—the coastal plain or tidewater Virginia, the Piedmont Plateau, and the Great Valley area between23 KB (2,892 words) - 11:24, 24 February 2021
- the constituencies. In all the Mennonite communities nearly all the young people attended high schools by the 1950s. In some of them religious instruction47 KB (5,873 words) - 15:12, 9 January 2021
- of the Old Testament will be plain to them in the New Testament. It should be noted that Schiemer does not tell his people that they should ignore the Old16 KB (2,618 words) - 14:14, 31 December 2018
- replaced by a large two-story stone structure with a tile roof, which in its plain structural design was reminiscent of the Dutch and Prussian meetinghouses15 KB (1,801 words) - 22:18, 10 June 2019
- in the canton of Bern, and the older congregations of the Alsatian Rhine plain, which alone are known to have adopted the Dordrecht Confession, whose eleventh22 KB (2,818 words) - 10:55, 30 March 2021
- 1786-1920: The History of a Separate People. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. Epp, Frank H. Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: A People's Struggle for Survival. Toronto:91 KB (9,318 words) - 19:09, 11 March 2024
- groups were reported in Costa Rica: 65.8% White / Castizo; 13.65% Mestizo (people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry); 9.03% Immigrants; 6.72% Mulatto;4 KB (428 words) - 14:03, 29 March 2021
- "China, People's Republic of." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1987. Web. 12 May 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=China,_People%27s18 KB (2,581 words) - 11:56, 23 June 2016
- and alternate service in the 20th century broadened the horizons of many people, especially young adults from this community. As a result, Lancaster Conference61 KB (6,181 words) - 17:14, 26 January 2023
- feeble start of 1841 in Elkhart County. These Old Order Amish wear severely plain dress, wear the beard, use the German in their services, generally shun all49 KB (6,336 words) - 15:51, 11 May 2024
- region in 1858 led to the first important settlements of English-speaking people. An Act of Congress established the Colorado Territory in 1861, and 15 years31 KB (4,108 words) - 16:19, 6 April 2020
- young people's societies began in the larger congregations in 1898. These societies proved to be of immense value in occupying the young people and keeping67 KB (7,839 words) - 12:44, 23 September 2023
- Reading which became extinct by 1786 as the result of raids by Indigenous people, one in Chester County near Malvern, which died out before 1800, and one33 KB (3,523 words) - 19:10, 8 August 2023
- Ezra Eby pronounced his preaching “plain, practical and impressive.” He witnessed the conversion of hundreds of people. Noah Detweiler’s last missionary6 KB (811 words) - 19:15, 12 August 2016
- obedience." The same statement emphasizes that the "Bible is the Book of the people of God," i.e., the understanding and credibility of its message are to be19 KB (2,671 words) - 16:01, 31 January 2019
- Mennonite people in several local communities. Formal tourist sites play several important roles in structuring the encounter between plain groups and12 KB (1,765 words) - 22:50, 15 January 2017
- instruments and firearms were not permitted in the unit. Men were required to wear plain suits, and women a dark type of footwear in addition to cape dresses. A similar6 KB (898 words) - 13:13, 26 October 2019
- has contributed immensely to the emancipation of individuals and groups of people from dehumanizing forces, it is wrong to assume that either individuals15 KB (2,210 words) - 17:22, 31 December 2018
- or fed or aided in any possible way. This mandate was to be read to the people by the pastors on several successive Sundays and holidays and also by other51 KB (7,917 words) - 23:58, 15 January 2017
- enterprises. From then on the nickname Habaner became the general name for these people. In Transylvania the Brethren had dwindled to scarcely more than a small126 KB (6,564 words) - 00:19, 5 August 2023
- have included people with disabilities who, according to prevailing attitudes, were probably viewed as children of innocence and people needing assistance15 KB (1,975 words) - 13:15, 19 March 2014
- Sturdy Oak. Kidron, Ohio: Ohio Conference Office, 2011. Miller, Levi. Our People: The Amish and Mennonites of Ohio. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1983. Stoltzfus16 KB (1,539 words) - 14:18, 11 March 2024
- Indians, North America (section Other Native Peoples)Muskhogean people lived in what is now Mississippi. Pressure for land to raise cotton took 15 million acres of their land. Removal of Indigenous people in 183012 KB (1,721 words) - 16:37, 29 May 2023
- Amish Road, Plain City, Ohio Phone: 614-873-8301 Denominational Affiliation: Beachy Amish Church Map:Canaan Fellowship Mennonite Church (Plain City, Ohio)2 KB (340 words) - 21:35, 29 October 2019
- the pulpit, and privately, he denounced its evils. As early as 1532 some people in the vicinity of Witmarsum had been baptized. Menno even had some discussions60 KB (8,987 words) - 12:46, 21 May 2018
- membership grew quickly, drawing attendees from a fairly wide geography–-people from across the region who were attracted to a more congenial Mennonite11 KB (1,358 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2024
- in Plain City, Ohio, USA was established in 1960. It was originally known as the Bethesda Amish Mennonite Fellowship. Old Order Amish in the Plain City1 KB (243 words) - 11:30, 25 October 2019
- near Grandin, Missouri, USA, began in 1969, after a number of families from Plain City, Ohio and other locations chose to begin a conservative Mennonite congregation2 KB (251 words) - 21:39, 29 October 2019
- understood, folklore is not the quaint and curious ways of isolated, backward people. Everyone has folklore. In fact, it is made up of the most essential --8 KB (1,143 words) - 20:59, 5 October 2013
- enriched by people connected with two groups in Arabella area: a Western Gospel Mission work in Arabella that dissolved and the Swan Plain Mennonite Church4 KB (408 words) - 02:09, 4 October 2018
- resulted from the establishment of the Darlington Mission. In 1891 some people who had settled between the present towns of Okarche and El Reno, Canadian23 KB (2,172 words) - 17:27, 26 January 2023
- established in 1977 as an outreach led by Ivan Yutzy of Bethesda Fellowship in Plain City, Ohio and families from Leon, Iowa. Part of the goal was to avoid "liberal2 KB (238 words) - 12:05, 10 April 2018
- 2014 only about one-third of the 170,000 postal subscribers were members of plain Anabaptist groups; the rest — including more than 40,000 prison inmates —3 KB (468 words) - 15:15, 16 September 2021
- Sunnyside Nursing Home. The congregation asked that Lester Gingerich of Plain City, Ohio pastor the congregation in 1970; at this time affiliation was2 KB (286 words) - 14:35, 27 October 2019
- excommunication. Worship services, two or three hours in length, were conducted in plain meetinghouses furnished with backless wooden benches. The Vorsänger (choristers)9 KB (1,459 words) - 03:01, 15 July 2016
- chronicles of the Hutterian Brethren report, "In this year, 1585, so many people came from Switzerland that they could not all be received; but a good part20 KB (2,897 words) - 14:57, 8 April 2021
- 80,000, with a total population of about twice that number. The Old Order people see the automobile as a disintegrating force affecting the family, church9 KB (1,319 words) - 03:26, 20 February 2014
- http://mennoworld.org/2015/04/13/opinion/opinion-chasm-between-plain-and-liberal/. Stella, Rachel. “Plain Anabaptist conference seeks common ground.” Mennonite5 KB (709 words) - 11:28, 25 October 2019
- loans from the local bank. The Dueck's first dwelling was a structure of plain shiplap boards covered with black tar paper. Although providing for the physical6 KB (904 words) - 13:59, 23 August 2013
- the teaching of the Scriptures and as the long-established custom of the people and the church. But when Protestant women ceased wearing it during religious18 KB (2,822 words) - 18:35, 31 December 2018
- just off the coast of the Asiatic mainland, were crowded over 80 million people in 1955. In 1955, farming was the main occupation, and as the country is14 KB (1,865 words) - 14:54, 3 April 2021
- since World War II been a socialist republic, but the religious life of its people has been conditioned by a turbulent history that antedates the establishment5 KB (817 words) - 08:22, 18 May 2014
- years before the general union of 1698) but the lowland plains, from the uncertainties from which people sought refuge in the privileged free city. Names like6 KB (959 words) - 21:01, 11 April 2015
- plates or baskets in which wine and bread were served—were originally very plain. They became more ornamental during the "Golden Age" (17th century) in the41 KB (6,309 words) - 14:08, 31 December 2018
- wise and statesmanlike decision, but in terms of absolute principle and plain Scripture teaching it was indefensible. At least so it seemed to Conrad Grebel75 KB (11,932 words) - 12:30, 15 May 2019
- time baptized a class of young people. Others would have united with the church but were unable to decide in favor of a plain church. Many of the descendants3 KB (494 words) - 19:25, 5 March 2021
- membership was 68,753 people in 641 congregations in 18 area conferences: Allegheny, Atlantic Coast, Central District, Central Plains, Eastern District, Franconia12 KB (1,447 words) - 19:20, 11 March 2024
- cultures, Bible principles find a consistent practical application among God's people in every generation. (2) Believer's baptism. Only those who show evidence18 KB (542 words) - 15:32, 1 February 2019
- making tradition. The ongoing householder role and the Amish preference for "plain style" has contributed to the popularity of the Amish woman's quilt. Together8 KB (1,289 words) - 07:46, 17 October 2013
- Leliaart. Behind our heroes of faith rises the shadow of the great man of the people, Jacob van Artevelde. Henri Pirenne in his history of Belgium (III, 40418 KB (2,486 words) - 20:50, 12 May 2020
- Christian Funk agreed with his fellow ministers that "as a defenseless people, the Mennonites could neither institute nor destroy any government." But4 KB (585 words) - 00:25, 16 January 2017
- 1786-1920: The History of a Separate People. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. Epp, Frank H. Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: A People's Struggle for Survival. Toronto:49 KB (5,578 words) - 13:52, 29 March 2021
- was made that the landowners were not allowed to sell their land to the "people of the Uke Walles sect." In 1642 the Ukowallists are said to have held their26 KB (3,643 words) - 07:34, 20 November 2016
- Friesen, David W. (1879-1951) (category Business People)individual. “We always knew our father to be a man of simple tastes and plain lifestyle. That was attested by the fact that one day a week he fasted and6 KB (925 words) - 00:59, 20 June 2017
- principle of simplicity with them. The great similarity of Mennonite and Quaker "plain" costumes in Eastern Pennsylvania suggests definite Quaker influence. Good34 KB (4,735 words) - 14:53, 9 April 2020
- of a desire to spread out to different areas that did not have a Godly, plain church in its midst. In 2018 the church had 60 members and was a member of3 KB (456 words) - 13:07, 10 April 2018
- congregation started as a daughter congregation of the Haven Fellowship in Plain City, Ohio In 2017 the church was a member of the Beachy Amish Mennonite1 KB (211 words) - 11:29, 25 October 2019
- the outcaste Chamar and Ghasia people located on the west side of the Hasdeo River on the central part of the northern plain known historically as Hindustan3 KB (546 words) - 19:52, 20 August 2013
- Springs Amish Mennonite Church. Cedar Springs began the outreach to "plant a plain witness in a community where there is none." Seven families, including the2 KB (270 words) - 14:15, 16 September 2021
- compulsory for women to wear the bonnet. Due to this controversy, a group of people left to form the Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church. In the midst of this4 KB (574 words) - 13:13, 12 November 2019
- in the nostalgic settings of rural plain Christian life. In these romance novels Amish are viewed as chaste people countering a rather worldly and technologically6 KB (873 words) - 10:51, 4 March 2021
- running out of space, and it believed the best option was to establish a "plain" Anabaptist witness in another community. On 1 July 1991 eight families were2 KB (294 words) - 13:22, 3 November 2018
- struggled valiantly to emancipate the country and bring political freedom to its people. The United States governmental organization has been generally the model26 KB (3,381 words) - 13:43, 5 April 2021
- covering of consistent size, and requirements for men to wear the regulation plain clothing. Televisions in the home were not permitted, nor were radios for5 KB (559 words) - 20:33, 23 January 2018