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sings: -Gyandiatser seems to have epert one year from homes attenitng th 3 echeod condusted by the gifted-preacher and: teacher, - Bernhard Harder, his fatsar’s umsie, There is no recerd indizating that he attended on of the Centraisshuie 2i2an (high: school) that were: beings organized ay that time in various Mennonite settliemensaz, ; at? in oaeenee 16; 4856, -Grandfather marri¢d Hlizeveth Fast, dauchter of “Yohanan Fast, a cnet oe at Schonaus- Scon after hia marriace, Grandfather moved te the village of Friecgansruh, where he aught the villass school for three yearse Then he moved to the village of Sshrnau, where ha taugat sees, four years, - i aol YF VAt Rak oot Melts nile Se WEP ‘Braneplanted. to the Crimeac By 1850, population pressure had tecome an sfonomic pret len for tha Mennonites in Russia, The rapid increas@-in populatien and the government provision that the entire estate must pass intact to a single memter ef the family upon the dexth cf the forrser owner, worked a hardship woon thoss memhers who did not share the iand inheritance. . Eud Grandfather inherited the estate at Biuzmsiain he would have been the fourth Johann: Hanisr to léiva there. Evidently his fathsr waz wiabis or unwilling to retire, thus forzing Grandfather to maks his iiving elsawheras _. A&A solution of this probiem was soucht quite early in the purchaga of daushter colcnies as an cutles for the surplus population. The first dacrgnter comminity was establishsd in the Crimea in 1852 by a ersep of Molotchna Jandseekers who first became acquainted with the fields about eritep nt watAe engaged in trac sine cat! the wounded from the tattlefieslds to their In the noc oa of 1865, Gra esther moved his crewing family tc the Crimea where he bought a small fam The little villace of Avnenfeld became his homa for the nax% nines years The first few years were sage eul As with the i problems confronted in any pionzer situa tion. But after having bese familiar with the climate and soil in the Crimea, he began to “progpero Nine years later, in i87 7, he was abie to seil out with considerabls profit and etd emigrate to Americas . When Grandfather and Grandmothsr and the two oldest children mved into the Crimsa, they joined a small exo cf Mennenitea that met in various homes tO: sing, pray, and search the scriptures for more inszigh+ ite understanding of God's Word. As mentioned earlisr in +his biography, this waa che tins that the Mennosite Church in Russia had reacshad a low point iz ita spiritual life. Grandfather, “hts was comcerned with civing a more Christian lire. Axsd wita his friends, he sought to fizd it. In 1869, Jacob As Wiebsa, a formar elder in the Kieiss Csmainds in the Grimsa, invited all those interested in greater spiritual life into a nsw clhupsn ieiiowship. Convinced, according to God’s Word thas taptism by immersicn was mast Bistical, thes Grandparents and seventeen cthers were retapiized by Wiets. ‘Then they p