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e Brethren Church, p. 23. 27. Quoted by Franz Isaac, op. cit., p. 55. 28. Cf. ibid., p. 63. 29. Kreider, op. cit., p. 25. 30. A. Braun, quoted by Kreider, ibid., p. 27. 31. Jacob P. Becker, Unpublished "Memoirs," translated by D. E. Pauls and A. E. Janzen (Copy in Archives of Pacific College), pp. 23-25. Revised and published as Origin of the Mennonite Brethren Church (Hillsboro, Kan.: Mennonite Brethren Historical Society of the Midwest). References indicate pagination in the earlier manuscript. 32. Heinrich Balzer, "Faith and Reason," translated and edited by Robert Friedmann, MQR, XXII (1948), 90. 33. See Wedel, op. cit.. Ill, 154; Smith, op. cit., p. 421; also John Horsch, Mennonites in Europe (Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1942), p. 275. CHAPTER III 1. A designation used by A. J. Klassen to describe this spiritual revival among the Mennonites. "The Roots and Development of Mennonite Brethren Theology to 1914" (Unpub. M.A. thesis, Wheaton College Graduate School, 1966), p. 33. 2. There is no satisfactory equivalent of Kleine Gemeinde in English. The terms, the "small church" or the "little church" do not convey the full meaning which the term Kleine Gemeinde has acquired in Mennonite history. Originally it was called Kleine Gemeinde because it was a minority group. In 1952 the church adopted a new name: Evangelical Mennonite Church. 3. J. H. Lohrenz, op. cit., p. 24. 4. Bender, in "Kleine Gemeinde," ME, III, 197. 5. Cf. chapter two 6. Balzer, "Faith and Reasons," MQR, XXII (1948), 87. FOOTNOTES 441 7. The Vereinsschule was a secondary school established primarily for the training of teachers. 8. Even the "great" Comies is reported to have participated in audible prayers. Friesen, op. cit., p. 78 (footnote). 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid., p. 79. 11. According to Robert Friedmann, Mennonite Piety Through the Centuries, (Goshen, Ind.: Mennonite Historical Society, 1949), p. 68, and Kreider, op. cit., p. 28, this con- gregation was composed principally of Lutherans who had united with the Mennonites. Among them were such prominent families as the Langes, the Lenzmanns, the Klatts and others. 12. Becker, "Memoirs," p. 26. 13. Cf. A. J. Klassen, op. cit., pp. 34-35. 14. The name "Brethren" was applied to believing church members long before 1860. It was often used in derision by those who did not share their views. 15. See P. M. Friesen, op. cit., p. 86, for a comprehensive list of such men. 16. Ibid., p. 80. 17. The "Templers" had originated in Wuerttemberg, Germany, as followers of a theologian by the name of Christoph Hoffmann. The latter sponsored a kind of Zionist movement, the chief objective of which was to build a new temple in Jerusalem. The ideas of the "Jerusalem Friends" were brought to the Molotschna by Johannes Lange, a teacher at the Bruderschule. 18. Friesen, op. cit., p. 168. Friesen thinks that Wuest tends to exaggerate his profligacy in his me