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(Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago press, 1962), p. 12.

17. Notes from interview with Nelson Kanagy, July 24, 1967.

18. Clayton F. Yake, "The School Work: A Short Sketch of the Beginning of the School Work at Orphans' Home, West Liberty, Ohio," in L. L. Swartzentruber, The Child: A History of the Mennonite Orphans' Home, West Liberty, Ohio (Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1931), pp. 167-72.

19. Pennsylvania Archives, Eighth Series, 8:7349.

20. J. C. Meyer Papers, the Archives of the Mennonite Church, Goshen, Ind.

21. Guy F. Hershberger, op. cit., p. 141.

22. J. C. Meyer Papers, the Archives of the Mennonite Church, Goshen, Ind. See also Report of General Conference of Mennonites in France in Reconstruction Work (June 20-22, 1919) (n.p., n.d.). For summary of the reconstruction project and the significance of the conference see Guy F. Hershberger, "Reconstruction Work in France," ME, eds. Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith, IV (1959), pp. 262, 263.

23. J. C. Meyer, "The Origin of the Young People's Conference Movement of 1918," MHB, XXVII (April 1967), pp. 4, 5. For a succinct account of the Young People's Conference with special emphasis on its struggle for acceptance and survival see Harold S. Bender, "Young People's Conference," ME, eds. Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith, IV (1959), p. 1009.

24. "Report of the Annual Ohio Mennonite Conference, May 21-23, 19119," GH, XII (June 26, 1919), p. 230.

12. The Crisis Years of 1915-1930

1. Mennonite Confession of Faith Containing: The Confession of Faith Adopted at Dortrecht, Holland in 1632 with the Reference Texts Printed in full; A Brief Historical Sketch of the Mennonite Church; A Statement of Christian Fundamentals Adopted by the Mennonite General Conference at Garden City, Missouri, in 1921. Prepared under the auspices of Mennonite Historical Committee. S. F. Coffman, Editor. Published by Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, Pa. The Confession was printed as a part of the 1921 Mennonite General Conference proceedings and at that time it was decided that 10,000 copies were to be printed in tract form for distribution.

2. For background on the closing of Goshen College see John S. Umble, Goshen College: 1894-1954 (Indiana: Goshen College, 1955), pp. 88-114. For the influential view that prevailed throughout much of the church on the issues of the day the reader should consult John Horsch, The Mennonite Church and Modernism (Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1924), pp. 119-30. These pages contain chapter 22, entitled "Goshen College Formerly and Now," and together with the other chapters of the 143-page volume, summarize the essentially conservative views that conflicted with the progressive movement in its various phases-theology, publication, education, and missions.

3. "Fundamentals Conference Report," GH, XVII (Apr. 10, 1924), pp. 45, 46. J. Y. King

and I. B. Witmer were secretaries of the conference.

4. J. C. Meyer Papers, the Archives of the Mennonite Church, Goshen, Ind. 5. CE, II (Apr. 24, 1925), p. 143.

6. Ibid., II (May 22, 1925), p. 175.

7. Ibid., III (May 21, 1926), p. 174.

8. News item in The Christian Exponent, I (Aug. 1, 1924), p. 242, cites the resignation of the pastor, Lester Hostetler, as due to "his having conducted evangelistic services for the Warren Street Middlebury and Nappanee congregations last winter." (These congregations had withdrawn from the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference.) Minute 3 of the 1925 Eastern A.M. Conference Report refers to Hostetler's having given "aid and encouragement to factions that had recently withdrawn from congregations thereby causing divisions and offence." In this situation it became the conference's "painful duty" no longer to recognize him as a member. The 1924 Eastern A.M. Conference had passed a resolution which disapproved of any conference member giving "encouragement and support to factions that have been insubmissive to Conference or Church rules and regulations, or have withdrawn from our or any sister conferences, thereby complicating our Conference and Church activities and our relations with others of like faith." The issue seemed to be in large part that of whether the conference could tolerate this degree of association with a more "liberal" Mennonite body.