A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church, Ja Toews

R XVI 1 . This is true, for instance, of the connection made between "German and religion" in the Bible academies (high schools) as well as in the Bible institutes in their earlier history. 2. In Church in Mission, p. 208. 3. The Voice, V 1 1 : 5 (Sept. -Oct.. 1958), 8. 4. S. A. Witmer, The Bible College Story: Education with Dimension (Manhasset, N.Y.: Channel Press. 1962). p. 39. 5. J. H. Lohrenz. op. cil.. p. 76. 6. Cited by F. C. Peters in "The Coming of the Mennonite Brethren to the United States and Their Efforts in Education" (Unpublished Th.D. dissertation. Central Baptist Theological Seminary . 1957). p. 105. 7. Cf. J. W. Vogt in ME, I. 710. 8. Cf. the sixtieth anniversary booklet Hitherto the Lord Has Helped Us of the Mennonite Brethren Church. North Enid, Oklahoma (1957). pp. 31-33. 9. Cited bv F. C. Peters. "Coming of the Mennonite Brethren." p. 170. 10. Ibid., p. 171. Il.ll will be recalled ( hut this was the period of tensions in the Keedley M.li. Church which led to the withdrawal of some 150 members and the establishment of an independent congregation in Dinuba. Cf. chapter ten. 12. A Century of (iroce and Witness, p. 39 13 I nter-Mennonite schools such as the Mountain Lake Bible School and the Lustre llible Academy will be considered in the chapter dealing with inter-church relations (chapter twenty -two). 14. "M.B. Bible Schools in Canada" in Konferenz-Jugendblatt , Vol. eleven. No. 62 (Nov. nee.. 1955) gives a historical survey of the M B. Bible schools operating at that time. See also The Bible School Story: Fifty Years of Mennonite Brethren Bible Schools in Canada 1013-1963. edited by A. J. Klassen. 15 Both Bestvater and Harms (the latter through John F. Funk, lilkhart) appear tn have been inspired to establish Bible schools in their own brotherhood by the pattern and program at the Moody Bible Institute. 16. As given in the Konferenz-Jugendblatt (Nov. -Dec., 1955). p. 9. 17. Cf. John G. Doerksen, "History of Education of Mennonite Brethren in Canada" (Unpublished M.Kd. thesis. Winnipeg. 19631. p. 50. 18. //)«/. 19. Harms had beena student of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and wasa graduate of Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. See report in Konferenz-Jugendblatt (Nov. -Dec., 19551. p. 12. 20. Ibid., p. 13. 21. Doerksen. op. cit.. p. 84. 22. Cf. ibid., p. 68. Schierling had attended the Tschongraw Bible School (Crimea) for four years. 23. The Torchbeurer: the Coaldalc Bible School Jubilee Yearbook, I929-19M. pp. 26-30. 24. Doerksen. op. cit.. p. 70. 25. See Doerksen op. cit., pp. 77-81: 85-87. 26. H. Warkentin in ME. IV. 1000. 27. As reported in the Mennonite Brethren Herald. IV: 12 (March 26, 1965), 5. 28. Cf. Doerksen. op. cit.. p. 132. 29. Ibid., p. 125. The "rivalry" was not between the schools, but between the supporters of these schools. 30. See ibid., pp. 107-114, for an historical account of the development of Eden Christian College.