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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 and
    44 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 groups
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  • 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 Texel
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  • classic Anabaptist literature, and an assortment of pamphlets for the plain people. Biggest sellers are the Pathway Readers, a complete set of stories compiled
    3 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 by
    42 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 Publishing
    66 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, Pennsylvania
    3 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 Order
    3 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 the
    12 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 Printing
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  • lumber business, flour mills, and agricultural machinery. Some of the plain people are still excellent wagon manufacturers. European Mennonites used the
    9 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 families
    3 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 with
    18 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, addressed
    50 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 by
    7 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) tells
    2 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 themselves
    61 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 Center
    12 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

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