Word: menno
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...original Mennonite was a Dutchman, Menno Simon, born while. Columbus was discovering America. He held that baptism may be performed only on the believer and recognized no authority except the Bible and one's enlightened conscience. During the 16th and 17th centuries, persecution of the Mennonites for such subversion doctrines was carried on in several European countries to the extreme of exterminating every Mennonite man, woman, and child who could be caught. Gradually, however the persistence of the sect triumphed, and in 1792 the won exemption from military service in France, though Napoleon pressed then into hospital service during...
Founded at Zurich, 1523, the Mennonite faith soon afterward received its name from its ablest early exponent, Menno Simons. This young onetime Catholic priest chanced upon some tracts of Martin Luther, experienced regeneration. But he devised tenets more like those of the Quakers than Luther's. Mennonites discard priesthood, own no authority outside the Bible and "enlightened conscience," stress the sanctity of human life (hence will not fight in any war) and "a man's word" (hence never swear...