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in 1869 through rebaptism, and became a pioneer minister of that body. 42. Friesen, op. cit., "Introduction," p. III. FOOTNOTES 445 CHAPTER VII 1. Smith, op. cit., p. 384. 2. See Sidney Harcave, Russia, A History (Chicago: T. B. Lippincott, 1959), pp. 360-379 for a detailed account of Russian expansion into Asia. 3. Frank H. Epp, Mennonite Exodus (Altona, Manitoba: D. W. Friesen & Sons, 1962), p. 19. 4. See monograph by Heinrich Goerz, Die Mennonitischen Siedlungen der Krim (Winnipeg: Echo Verlag, 1957) for a description of economic, cultural and religious developments in the Mennonite settlements of the Crimea. 5. The "Kroeker Brothers" may be regarded as the "fathers of Christian publications" in the Mennonite Brethren Church of Russia. Their contributions will be discussed later. 6. Cited by A. J. Klassen in "Research Note: Sermons of David Duerksen," Journal of Church and Society, 1:2 (1965), 64. It should be added here that the Mennonite Brethren Historical Library at Pacific College has a set of Duerksen's sermons on microfilm. 7. "Memrik," ME, 111,571. 8. Friesen, op. cit., pp. 470-73. 9. He once confided to his colleagues, including the author, that it was this method of preaching which had saved him from bankruptcy as a preacher, a bankruptcy which he felt was often the fate of preachers who used the topical method. 10. Unruh, op. cit., pp. 258-63, gives G. P. Froese's account of this experience in full. 11. Ibid., pp. 201-203. See J. H. Lohrenz, op. cit., pp. 311-12 for brief biographical sketch of H. Neufeld. 12. "Terek," ME, IV, 6%. See also C. P. Toews, Die Tereker Ansiedlung (Rosthem: Echo Verlag, 1945). 13. Unruh, op. cit., p. 203. See also J. H. Bracks and H. Hooge, Neu-Samara (Clearbrook, B.C.: Fraser Valley Printers, 1964) and Peter P. Dyck, Orenburg am Ural (Yarrow, B.C.: Columbia Press, 1951). 14. See Epp, Mennonite Exodus, p. 19. 15. C. Krahn in ME, IV, 520. Since P. M. Friesen completed his work in 1911, there is very little in his book on the Mennonites of Siberia. 16. H. M. Janzen, cited by Unruh, op. cit., p. 209. 17. Friesen. op. cit., p. 479. See also the book Im Weichselbogen (Winnipeg: Christian Press, 1971) by Erich L. Ratzlaff for comprehensive account of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Central Poland. 18. Unruh, op. cit., p. 239. 19. As given by Epp in Mennonite Exodus, p. 21. 20. See "Forestry Service," ME, II, 353. 21. J. J. Toews, "Cultural Background of the Mennonite Brethren Church" (Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Toronto, 1951), p. 235. 22. Friesen, op. cit., p. 669. 23. ME, I, 8. 24. D. H. Epp, a minister of the Mennonite Church, began publishing the Botschafter two years later, in 1905. 25. Neff in ME, III. 246. 26. Klassen, "Roots and Development . . .," p. 169. 27. G. Lohrenz, A Legacy of Faith, p. 178. 28. Quoted by G. Lohrenz, ibid. 29. G. W. Peters, The Growth of Foreign Missions of the Mennonite Bre