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phia: Westminster Press, 1962). 7. For a study of the various "types" of Anabaptists see Friedmann, ME, I, 114-116. 8. The story of the early beginnings is told more fully by Fritz Blanke in Brothers in Christ (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1961). 9. Quoted by John Howard Yoder in Introduction to Mennonite History, edited by C. J. Dyck (Scottdale. Pa.: Herald Press, 1967), p. 29. 10. H. S. Bender, Conrad Grebel, cl498-1526 (Goshen, Indiana: Mennonite Historical Society, 1950), p. 137. 11. W. R. Estep, The Anabaptist Story (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1963), p. 10. 12. Smith, op. cit., p. 64. 13. The Complete Writings of Menno Simons (hereafter CW), translated from the Dutch by Leonard Verduin and edited by John C. Wenger (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1956), p. 668. 14. Ibid., p. 669. 15. Ibid., p. 671. 16. See Wm. Keeney, Introduction to Mennonite History, p. 94, 17. CW, pp. 739-44. 18. Ibid., p. 740. 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid., p. 741. 21. Guy F. Hershberger. (ed.), The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1957), p. 47. 439 440 HISTORY OF THE MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH CHAPTER II 1. Cf. Smith, op. cit., p. 271. Smith describes the Prussian Mennonites in the Vistula Delta as a "pure Dutch community." 2. See Frank H. Epp, Introduction to Mennonite History, p. 127. 3. Gerhard Lohrenz in A Legacy of Faith, edited by Cornelius J. Dyck {Newton, Kansas: Faith and Life Press, 1962), p. 174. 4. Ibid. 5. Robert Kreider, "The Anabaptist Conception of the Church in the Russian Mennonite Environment," MQR, XXV (January, 1951), 22. 6. See article "Chortitza Mennonite Settlement," ME, I, 569-74. 7. See article "Molotschna," ME, III, 732-37. 8. Frank H. Epp, Introduction to Mennonite History, p. 133. 9. Kreider, op. cit., p. 18. 10. G. Lohrenz, op. cit., p. 173. 11. Smith, op. cit., p. 421. 12. Harms, op. cit., p. 1. 13. Friesen, op. cit., pp. 211-12. (Free translation by author.) 14. Cf. Letter of explanation quoted by P. M. Friesen, ibid., p. 199. 15. CW, p. 734. 16. Ibid., p. 283. 17. Kreider, op. cit., p. 22. 18. See C. H. Wedel, Abriss der Geschichte der Mennoniten (Newton, Kansas: Bethel College, 1901), III, 168. 19. Ibid., p. 171. 20. Ibid., p. 170. 21. Quoted by Harms, op. cit., p. 2. 22. Smith, op. cit., p. 426. Among the innovations to which objections were raised was also Fast's ordination by a Frisian elder, rather than by one of his own wing of the church, and the founding of the Ohrloff secondary school (Vereinsschule) . 23. Friesen, op. cit., p. 119. 24. Wiens had banned three members who had administered corporal punishment to a Hutterite youth in compliance with an order of the village mayor. Details are given by Franz Isaac, Die Molotschnaer Mennoniten (Halbstadt, Taurien, 1908), pp. 115-22. 25. Friesen, op. cit., p. 123. The entire farewell address is given by Friesen, pp. 120-28. 26. J. H. Lohrenz, The Mennonit