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  • the painting of barns in Pennsylvania was introduced around 1830. The "plain people" including the Amish and the Mennonites accepted this innovation but
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  • of Lancaster Conference. Scottdale, PA, 1931: 130, 139, 148, 385-395. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by
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  • 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 no
    7 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 areas
    17 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 were
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  • 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."
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  • 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 to
    12 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 churches
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  • 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 worldly
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  • a country with numerous cultures, languages, and ethnic groups.Mestizos (people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry) comprise about 34% of the population
    9 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 Ontario
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  • title=Foundation_and_Plain_Instruction_of_the_Saving_Doctrine_of_Our_Lord_Jesus_Christ&oldid=144128. APA style Krahn, Cornelius. (1956). Foundation and Plain Instruction
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  • 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 Conference
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  • preaching, holding baptism and communion services, and seeking to bring people of both Mennonite and non-Mennonite background into the church. Although
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  • Mennonite Communities in Southern Maryland." Thesis, U. of Maryland, 1951. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by
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  • calmness marked his relationships with people. In spite of his great wealth and influence Cornies remained a plain Mennonite farmer. Epp, D. H. Johann Cornies
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  • Geographically present-day Virginia is divided into three areas—the coastal plain or tidewater Virginia, the Piedmont Plateau, and the Great Valley area between
    23 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 instruction
    47 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 Old
    16 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 meetinghouses
    15 KB (1,801 words) - 22:18, 10 June 2019

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