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4. Growth-and Some Decline-of the Churches

1. Roseboom and Weisenberger, op. cit., pp. 110, 112

2. John Umble, "The Allen County, Ohio, Mennonite Settlement," MQR, VI (April 1932), p. 84.

3. John Umble, "Extinct Ohio Mennonite Churches: The Churches in Ashland County," MQR, XIX (January 1945), pp. 47, 48.

4. M. S. Steiner, "The Ohio Conference," Hartzler and Kauffman, op. cit., pp. 266, 267. 5. John Umble, "The Fairfield County, Ohio, Background of the Allen County, Ohio, Men

nonite Settlement, 1799-1860," MQR, VI (January 1932), p. 9.

6. John Umble, "Extinct Mennonite Churches in Ohio: The Church in Williams County," MQR,

XVIII (January 1944), p. 40.

7. John Umble, "The Fairfield County, Ohio, Background of the Allen County, Ohio, Mennonite Settlement, 1799-1860," MQR, VI (January 1932), pp. 8, 9.

8. Charles P. Morlan (Comp.), A Brief History of Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Conservative) (Representative Meeting of Yearly Meeting, Barnesville, Ohio), 1959, pp. 81, 82. According to Dr. James H. Rodabaugh, Head of Division of History and Science of Ohio Historical Society, "The first militia act after Ohio statehood was passed Dec. 30, 1803. It provided that Quakers, Mennonists, and Dunkers might be excused from service but must pay $300.00." March 2, 1962, letter from Dr. Rodabaugh to Wilmer D. Swope.

9. OEMCR: Walnut Creek congregation, Walnut Creek, Ohio.

10. Orland Grieser, op, cit., p. 56.

11. HT, I (December 1864), p. 82.

12. John M. Brenneman, Christianity and war, n.d., n.p., pp. 36, 37. This quotation does not appear in the English edition of 1863 nor is it in the German translation of 1864 at Lancaster, Pa. Its appearance in a later edition is not easily explained, though the tenor of the quotation is such as to be very much a part of Brenneman's burden in writing the pamphlet. See appendix for a reprint of the 1863 original pamphlet.

12a. For a succinct summary of the previous Mennonite experience in America in maintaining the doctrine of nonresistance and the production of peace literature see Guy F. Hershberger, War, Peace, and Nonresistance (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1944), pp. 88-111. The highlights include the publication of the Ausbund Hymnal in 1742; the German Martyrs' Mirror in 1748; and a petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1775. Not included in Hershberger 's summary, but highly significant, is the 1727 edition of The Christian Confession of the Faith of the Harmless Christians in the Netherlands, Known by the Name of Mennonites (Amsterdam: Printed and reprinted and sold by Andrew Bradford in Philadelphia in the year 1727). In this pamphlet, the first Mennonite work to be published in the New World, is an English translation from Dutch of the 1632 Dordrecht Confession of Faith. The intention behind the publication of the 1727 translation was to inform the English that they may rule and deal with "patience, meekness and peaceableness and Inhabitants (that are of another religion) and that they did not let themselves be moved by any body to forcing of conscience nor hinder their subjects of their inward Worship as the Romanists do in their jurisdiction to the Reformed... "

13. HT, X (July 1873), p. 116.

14. Ibid., XXIV (Sept. 1, 1887), p. 264,

15. Ibid., XVI (November 1879), p. 211.

16. Ibid., XXIX (June 15, 1892), p. 187,

17. John Umble, "Extinct Ohio Mennonite Churches: Wood County," MQR, XVIII (April 1944), p. 108.

18. HT, XX (Sept. 1, 1883), p. 265.

19. Ibid., XXI (Feb. 15, 1884), p. 56.

20. Ibid., XI (July 1874), pp. 120, 121.

21. Ibid., XVII (June 1880), p. 110.

22. Ibid., VIII (January 1871), p. 9.

23. Ibid., XXIII (Jan. 1, 1886), p. 9.

24. Ibid., XXIII (Feb. 1, 1886), p. 42.

25. Ibid., XVIII (March 1881), p. 49.

26. Ibid., XII (June 1875), p. 90.

27. Ibid., XX (Dec. 1, 1883), pp. 361, 362.

28. Ibid., XVII (Jan. 1880), p. 13.

29. Ibid., XXI (Feb. 15, 1884), p. 57.