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Updated: June 16, 2025
Christianity has divided itself into Catholicism and Protestantism; and when Protestantism gave the right of interpretation of the Bible to each individual, there were evolved such forms of Protestantism as Christian Science, Holy Rollerism, Seventh Day Adventism, Swedenborgianism, and the cults of the Doukhobors, the Shakers, the Mennonites, the Dunkards and the Salvation Army.
Then they came right along to look fur kindlin'. There wasn't no other bluff for half a mile but ours. They found us all three. Young Nat 'ad got 'is collar-bone broke. Them 'ustlers 'adn't lifted our 'plugs' so I jest came right in." "Have you seen these Mennonites?" asked the officer, turning sharply to the money-lender. "Not yet," was the heavy rejoinder. "But they are coming in."
It was finally suppressed and Wilhelmson burned alive at Cleves on March 5, 1580. Meanwhile, soon after the fall of Münster, the party split asunder, a moderate section forming, which shortly after came under the leadership of Menno Simon. This section, which soon became the majority of the party, under the name of Mennonites, settled down into a mere religious sect.
"We Mennonites may never swear either," said Elsje, with pretty pride in her creed, confessed with so little conviction. "That is good, that is indeed one of the best things the Bible Jesus is said to have taught. Therefore it is surely followed least of all. I not only swear no more I even dare not promise you anything, for I know myself too little to foretell my future actions."
It was men, and not women, who invented such sordid and literal faiths as those of the Mennonites, Dunkards, Wesleyans and Scotch Presbyterians, with their antipathy to beautiful ritual, their obscene buttonholing of God, their great talent for reducing the ineffable mystery of religion to a mere bawling of idiots.
That won't keep no town alive." "Judge Thayer's got a big colonization project going that looks good, he says. If he puts it through things will begin to pick up." "Them Mennonites, I guess. They ain't the kind of people a man wants to see come in here whiskers all over 'em, never sell 'em a cake of shavin' soap or a razor from Christmas to doomsday.
"Now, look here, Tillie, I oughtn't argy no words with you, fur you're my child and you're got the right to mind me just because I say it. But can't you see the inconsistentness of the plain people? And yet them Mennonites won't leave a sister keep a millinery-shop!" "But," Tillie tried to hold her ground, "there's watches, pop, and clocks that jew'lers sells. They're useful.
Faithless Jehu The "Blarney Stone" Mennonites in search of News "Water, Water everywhere" A Herd of Buffaloes A Mud Village Pointe du Chene and Old Nile At Dawson Route A Cheerful Party Toujours perdrix The "Best Room" A Government Shanty Cats and Dogs Birch River Mushroom-picking The Mosquito Plague A Corduroy Road The Cariboo Muskeg.
Before Spinoza was twenty, he had come into acquaintanceship with these plain people. His relationship with the rabbis and learned men of Israel had given him a culture that the Mennonites did not possess; but these plain people, by the earnestness of their lives, showed him that the science of theology was not a science at all.
The greater fishes who broke the net are the rulers, emperors, popes, kings, who have not renounced power, and instead of true Christianity have put on what is simply a mask of it." Helchitsky teaches precisely what has been and is taught in these days by the non-resistant Mennonites and Quakers, and in former tunes by the Bogomilites, Paulicians, and many others.
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