THE MENNONITE BROTHERHOOD IN RUSSIA (1789 - 1910), P. M. Friesen, 1911

oscow [from there— railway]. On the way I visited the [widowed] wife of Pastor Landesen in Tula. She was Documentary Supplements 343 extraordinarily happy to see me. I only spent 2*/i hours with her She also understands our language. . . . Arrived safely in St. Petersburg at night, the 21st. . . .” The same in a letter of April 19, 1866. “. . . .May 25 [1860] I was already home, but exactly when I arrived I do not know.” [His original account concerning travel expenses is dated: “from March 29 to May 23.”] 2. First list for the election of ministers in the M.B. Church (cf. #95). "Election List of two of the members who seceded from numerous congregations, May 30, 1860.” (This title, written by the late Elder Heinrich Huebert, is crossed out and on the second half of the page the following title is given by the late Br. Johann Claassen): “Election List of the M.B. Church in the Molotschna Mennonite Colony, concerning four of the nominated brethren, of whom two are to be elected by majority vote to be our ministers ; this took place in Gnadenfeld, May 30, I860. 135 Jakob Heinrich August Andreas Village Name of Voter Becker Huebert Strauss Voth Lichtfelde 99 Elisabethtal 99 9 9 Schardau 99 Mariental Pastva Rudnerweide 99 99 Martin Klassen Abraham Wiens (Jacob Kroeker) 136 Franz Klassen Komelius Wiens Abraham Wiens August Strauss Daniel Hoppe Heinrich Flaming Dietrich Claassen Isaak Regier Abraham Regier Jacob Becker Benjamin Becker 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 §157 344 THE MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH §158 Gnadenfeld 99 Jakob Reimer Bernhard Penner, — 1 — 1 the younger 1 1 — — 9 9 Heinrich Bartel — 1 — 1 Waldheim Gottlieb Strauss 1 1 — — 99 Johann Strauss 1 1 — — 99 Friedrich Strauss 1 1 — — 99 David Dirksen 1 1 — — Wernersdorf Johann Huebert 1 1 — — Liebenau Heinrich Huebert 1 — 1 — 99 Simon Harms 1 1 — — Fuerstenau Peter Stobb 1 — — 1 Ladekopp Abraham Peters — 1 1 — 99 David Claassen 1 1 — — Pastva Andreas Voth 1 1 — — 16 24 3 11 3. Johann Claassen’s second journey to St. Petersburg on behalf of the M.B. Church. (Supplement to #98.) a) Jakob Reimer of Gnadenfeld’s “Report”: “. . . When we returned to Halbstadt for the second time on October 30, thirty of us came together .... Finally, when our turn came, we were all earnestly advised to return to the church, which we, however, absolutely refused to do. Thereupon we were severely threatened, especially by the spokesmen: if, within two months, we had not joined one or the other congregations we were to be excluded from the status of a colonist. Since the threats became more and more serious and most of the congregations had consented— in response