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unt of the home missions work of the Southern District Conference, pp. 140-144: the Central District Conference, pp. 155-158; and Ihe Pacific District Conference, pp. 168-172. 49. Yearbook (Pacific District Conference, 1942). p. 23. 50. Yearbook (General Conference. 1945), p. 57. 51. Yearbook (General Conference. 1951), p. 120. 52. Yearhook (Pacific District Conference. 1951). p. 55. 53. Yearbook (General Conference, 1954), pp. 59. 61 54. Yearbook (General Conference, 1954), pp. 17-19. 55. Both practices have become quite general throughout the M.B. Church in North America, especially after 1963. 56. Yearbook (General Conference, 1936), p. 68. 57. Janzen. Resolutions, p. 1. 58. It should be mentioned here that as a result of the Nazi movement, the M.B. churches in Paraguay had been divided into two camps. A prolonged ministry of B. B. Janz in the colonies of Fernheim and Friesland resulted in reconciliation and renewal. Hence the reference to the "reorientated church." 59. Yearbook (General Conference. 1948). p. 3. 60. Janzen in Church in Mission, p. 164. 61 . Ibid., p. 165. 62. Ibid., p. 166 63. JV<iWifm* (Genersil Conference, 1963). p. 121. CHAPTER XIV 1. Friesen, op. cit.. p. 388. 2. Institutional education will be dealt with in chapter sixteen. 3. Cf. Unruh, op. cit.. p. 241. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. See article. "Sunday School," in A Century of Grace and Witness 1860-1960 (Hillsboro: M.B. Publishing House. 1960), p. 50. 7. Walter Quiring, a Mennonite historian, in private correspondence with A. H. Unruh, lists the Sunday school as one of the innovations brought into the larger Mennonite brotherhood by the Mennonite Brethren. 8. Konferen;l)ericllte. p. 15. i). .Inn/.en. Hcsoliitions. p. 162. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid. 456 HISTORY OF THE MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH 12. Konferenzberichte, p. 268. 13. Redekopp in A Century of Grace and Witness, p. 50. 14. Yearbook (General Conference, 1924), pp. 46-47. 15. Yearbook (General Conference, 1939), p. 20. 16. According to our survey in the fall of 1971, several Sunday school classes in the Reedley M.B. Church were still conducted in German. 17. Yearbook (General Conference, 1951), p. 76. 18. In A Century of Grace and Witness, p. 51. 19. Yearbook (United States Conference, 1958), p. 19. 20. Yearbook (United States Conference, 1960), p. 47. 21. Yearbook (United States Conference, 1961), p. 25. 22. In 1951 the name of the Sunday School Committee of the General Conference was officially changed to "Church School Committee." {Yearbook, General Conference, 1951, p. 75) . This change of name reflects the enlarged vision of the brethren in this field with regard Lo the nature and scope of Christian education in the local church. 23. See Yearbook (United States Conference, 1959), p. 18. 24. Explained more fully in chapter eighteen. 25. Cited by Unruh, op. cit., p. 654. 26. See report in Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1943),