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church's mission. Youth programs were sponsored through young people's institutes in the 1930's and 1940's and in 1948 the churchwide Mennonite Youth Fellowship was founded.

The progressive movement of the 1915-1930 period may have been ahead of its day. New viewpoints, new programs, new methods aIl come slowly and guardedly into the life of a church with the historic faith and orientation that has characterized Mennonitism throughout its four and one-half centuries of existence.