Word: brethrens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brethren, it has been proposed to us by certain of the Elders that this congregration has received a call to send out missionaries into the Great West for the purpose of educating the Indians, frontiersmen, and other savages and of spreading the Harvard Gospel unto the uttermost ends of the earth...
...Brethren." On the Suez issue he was still defiant. "So long as there is a foreign force, one single foreign soldier in Egypt," said he, "we shall not begin repairing the canal and we shall not begin running the canal. Eden will never force us to surrender. Egypt was made to fight, my brethren, we were made to fight. After ten days of fighting, we are all of us one monolithic people...
...shall fight a bitter battle. We shall fight from village to village, from house to house, from place to place, because each one of you, my fellow countrymen, is a soldier. We shall not surrender. I promise you, my brethren, that I shall fight with you to the last drop of my blood...
...farmer in the Mennonite community at Maugansville, Md. bought a new cow. Adin discovered that the cow had an inflammation of the udder. He stopped payment on his check. Sued for the amount ($347), Adin went to court to explain his case. But Mennonite law forbids the brethren to settle disputes in court. Mennonite Bishop Mose's Horst announced that Adin had been excommunicated...
...shed. A woman shoved a hypodermic into his left arm. Adin soon lost consciousness, and was driven across the state line to Philhaven, another Mennonite mental hospital in Lebanon, Pa. No outsider might have known anything about it if a passerby had not chanced to see Adin's brethren loading his limp body into the station wagon. Several days later, he got around to telling the district attorney. Authorities established that Adin was missing, and ran him to earth at Philhaven.The hospital agreed to release Adin. Two non-Mennonite doctors examined him and found no reason for his confinement...