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minaries. 59. It should be mentioned that the Canadian delegation abstained from discussions ;ind voting on the "unification issue." A major reason for abstention was the view of the majority of the Canadian delegates that their churches were not as yet ready to commit themselves to support a seminary program. 60. Although the early catalogs of the seminary contain a Confession of Faith, there is no reference to the school's basic theological stance as an Anabaptist-Mennonite institution. 61. See Catalog 1965-1966, pp. 17-18. 62. Yearbook (General Conference, 1969), p. 33. The responses of the two area conferences are also given in the Yearbook, pp. 33-38. 63. Friesen. op. cit., pp. 637-638. CHAPTER XVII 1. In A Century of Grace and Witness, p. 45. 2. Unruh, op. cit., p. 254. The "Kroeker Brothers" did much to remedy this situation prior to World War 1 as noted in a earlier chapter. 3. Konferemberichte, p. 14. 4. Harms, op. cit., p. 264. 5. In his brief autobiography, Meine Lebensreise (Hillsboro, Kansas, 1943) Harms gives an interesting account of the early period of his life up to the time of his emigration to the United States. 460 HISTORY OF THE MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH 6. Harms' first wife, Marie Isaac, died in childbirth in 1876. 7. It was during these years also that Harms attended the Evangelical College, Naperville, III., for two years. 8. See Harms, op. cit., pp. 263-274, for an account of the financial arrangements the conference made with him from year to year. 9. Ibid., p. 266. 10. Cf. Orlando Harms, A Century of Grace and Witness, p. 45. 11. See J. H. Lohrenz, op. cit., p. 90. 12. See article, "Em letztes Wort vom Editor," Zionsbote (May 21, 1930), p. 15. 13. Konferenzberichte (1908), p. 395. 14. This view is expressed by T. R. Schellenberg in an article entitled "Editor Abraham L. Schellenberg," Mennonite Life, IX (Jan., 1954), 22. 15. Konferenzberichte (1919), p. 497. 16. Quoted by T. R. Schellenberg, op. cit.. p. 26. 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid. 19. He served as mayor of the town for several terms, and sat on the Board of Directors of Tabor College. Ibid., p. 27. 20. As cited by F. H. Epp in Mennonite Exodus, p. 126. 21. Ibid. 22. See "Eine Erklaerung," Yearbook (General Conference, 1930), p. 44. This "explanation" was in response to Schellenberg's "last word" {Zionsbote, May 21, 1930) in which he charged the Hillsboro church leadership as well as certain brethren of the Publications Committee with continued "hostility and molestations." 23. The paper's name was changed to Der Bote in 1935. In 1947 it merged with the Christlicher Bundesbote and thus became an organ of the General Conference Mennonite Church {ME I, 395). 24. In A Century of Grace and Witness, p. 49. 25. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1949), p. 19. 26. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1951), p. 8. 27. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1950), p. 34. 28. Ibid., p. 36. 29. Yearbook (Ca