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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
- 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
- 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
- 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. 13 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
- 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
- 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