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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...
...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...