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10,000 Lancaster Conference Mennonites and our members are intermarried with Lancaster Conference and we also work with them." Similar relations, he said, exist with the Conservative Amish Mennonites. Because of location and church and family ties Mast felt that "by placing the matter of merging with the Ohio Mennonites before our people, some[may]say .Lancaster Conference and others [may] say Conservative Amish." By not submitting the matter for a vote at all Mast, here as at other times in his ministry, kept divisive questions from being debated and so retained greater unity.

19, GH, XX (Dec. 22, 1927), p. 832.

20. From document referred to in footnote 14. 21. Ibid., XXI (June 28, 1928), p. 270.

22. Ray Bair, op. cit., p. 4.

23. J. B. Smith Papers in Menno Simons Historical Library and Archives, Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, Va.

24. Personal interview with A. J. Steiner by author on July 9, 1962.

14. Missions and New Churches 1920-1945

1. John R. Smucker, "History of the Ohio Mission Board," OE, XIII (March-April, 1959), pp. 2, 3, 7.

2. Ohio Mennonite Mission Board Minutes, 1920. (Hereafter referred to as OMMB.)

3. OEMCR: Rock congregation, Elverson, Pa.

4. Timothy H. Brenneman, "A Unique Mennonite Community Is Being Built in Sarasota,

Florida," The Mennonite Community, VI (February 1952), pp. 6-11.

5. OEMCR: Kidron congregation, Kidron, Ohio.

6. OEMCR: Allensville congregation, Allensville, Pa.

7. OEMCR: Oley congregation, Oley, Pa.; Elam Hartz, "The Growing Community in Oley

Valley," The Mennonite Community, IV (March 1950), pp. 12, 13.

8. OEMCR: Bethel congregation, Mummasburg, Pa.

9. Kenneth Snyder, "The Ohio Conference Mennonites in Western Pennsylvania," OE, X

(July-August, 1956), pp. 2, 3.

15. Development of Church Life in the Older Congregations

1. For a detailed description of the life of these churches see Sanford G. Shetler, Two Centuries of Struggle and Growth 1763-1963: A History of the Allegheny Mennonite Conference. (Published by Allegheny Mennonite Conference. Distributed by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa., 1963), pp. 248-63.

2. Ibid., p. 444.

3. Ibid., p. 250.

4. Ibid., p. 263.

5. Ibid., p. 254.

6. Letter of Howard C. Yoder to Grant M. Stoltzfus, Mar. 26, 1966.

7. John S. Umble Research Notes in Archives of the Mennonite Church, Goshen, Ind., 1111-1.7.

8. Diary in possession of William Mast, a grandson, residing at Walnut Creek, Ohio. Notes taken by author on July 14, 1962.

9. For factual and interpretative accounts of A. I. Yodels life see the articles on him by John R. Mumaw, GH, XXVI (Aug. 9, 1934), p. 415, and by John S. Umble, MHB, XVI (April 1955), pp. 3, 4.

10. Notes taken by author from a tape recording of an address by John Y. King on June 4,

1961, which recounted the revival from firsthand observations. Address delivered at Elida, Ohio. 11. OEMCR: Bethel congregation, West Liberty, Ohio.

12. Personal Notes of S. E. Allgyer in Mennonite Archives, Goshen, Ind. Included in these

notes is this sentence: "I have had a busy life and am still feeling good at 93."

13. John S. Umble, "Samuel Evans Allgyer," GH, XLVII (Mar. 2, 1954), pp. 197, 198;

personal interview by author with John S. Umble on June 18, 1963.