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inds (Heb. 12:1-3). Fulfilling that resolve will empower Mennonite Brethren to continue their faithful pilgrimage-as a people in the world but not of the world-in the closing years of the 1990s, and into the century beyond. 328 Endnotes CHAPTER 1 t. Note the frequency of the word "remember* as it relates to the past in exhorta- tions of God to his people. Roswell T. Hitchcock, Topical Bible and Cruaen s Con- cordance (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1955). 2. Jean Jaures, "What use is history?" The Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter, March 1977, 1. 3. United Evangelical Action, 1978. 4. Editorial, "Words of Admonition," Mennonite Weekly Review, 12 May 1977, 4. 5. Peter Regier, Kurzge/asste Gescbicbte der Mennoniten Brudergemeinde (Berne, Ind.: Light and Hope Publication, 1901 >, Peter M. Friesen, The Mennonite Brother- hood in Russia (1789-191Q) [Alt-Evangeliscbe Mennonitische Bruderscbaft in Russ- land(1789-19WX trans. J. B. Toews, Abraham Friesen, Peter J. Klassen and Harry Loewen (Fresno, Calif.: Board of Christian Literature, General Conference of Menno- nite Brethren Churches, 1978); A. H. Unruh, Die Gescbicbte der Mennoniten Brudergemeinde (Hillsboro, Kans.: General Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church of North America, 1955); John A. Toews, A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church: Pilgrims and Pioneers (Fresno: Board of Christian literature, General Confer- ence of Mennonite Brethren Churches, 1975>, Jacob P. Bekker, Origin of the Menno- nite Brethren Church, trans. D.E Pauls and A.E. Janzen (Hillsboro, Kans.: The Men- nonite Brethren Historical Society of the Midwest, 1973). 6. The record of Israel in the Old Testament and the renewals of church history are the substantiating proof of this phenomenon. C. E. Autry, Revivals of the Old Tes- tament (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, I960) is a good source on this subject. 7. 2 Corinthians 4:16; Ephesians 4:23; Colossians 3:10. 8. James Bums, Revivals, Their Laws and Leaders (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, i960), addresses the renewals of recent centuries; A. Skevington Wood, The Inextinguishable Blaze (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., I960).; J. Edwin Orr, The Light of the Nations (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1965); F. F. Bruce, The Spreading Flame (London: Paternoster Press, 1958). 9- Harold S. Bender and Robert Friedmann, "Anabaptist," in The Mennonite Ency- clopedia, eds. Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith, (ScottdaJe, Pa.: Mennonite Pub- lishing House, 1955), 113-15. 10. John A. Toews, A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church, 3- 11. Cornelius Kr