Word: menno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oval tent big enough to hold a three-ring circus was pitched last week in an Allensville, Pa. hayfield. No circus did it contain but the biennial world conference of the Mennonite Church. A plain-garbed, plain-spoken sect holding the tenets of 16th-Century Netherlander Menno Simons, the Mennonites shun attention and cities alike. At Allensville, surrounded by the rugged mountains of central Pennsylvania that hem in the fertile and tranquil Kishacoquillas Valley their ancestors settled before the Revolution, they felt perfectly at home. The 7,000 delegates came from Argentina, Tanganyika, India and all North America...
...Mennonites are a quiet, pious Protestant sect, holding the tenets of Menno Simons, 16th-Century Netherlander. Most of the sect's 40,000 "plain" Mennonites live in the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) counties of Pennsylvania. Each plain Mennonite Meeting House has two ministers, two deacons, the latter serving for life. Last week, in the meeting house of Blooming Glen, Pa., nearly 500 Mennonites enjoyed the rare experience of seeing a deacon chosen to replace one who had died...