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14. OEMCR: Pike congregation, Elida, Ohio.

15. Ibid.

16. HT, XXXIV (December 1897), p. 371.

17. CE, II (Jan. 30, 1925), p. 48.

18. See J. B. Smith, "The Elida Situation," CE, II (Mar. 13, 1925), p. 95, for a defense of the "conservative faction" in the dispute. See R. R. Brenneman, "An Answer," CE II (Mar. 27, 1925), p. 111, for a reply to Smith.

19. "Open Forum," CE, III (Jan. 29, 1926), p. 47.

20. From congregational histories in C. Z. Mast Collection in the Archives of the Mennonite Church, Goshen, Ind.

21. OEMCR: Pike congregation, Elida, Ohio.

22. Ibid.

23. According to information supplied by A. Don Augsburger the following men from the Pike congregation were ordained ministers: A. Don Augsburger, Goshen, Ind.; David W. Augsburger, Broadway, Va.; Fred E. Augsburger, Youngstown, Ohio; Myron S. Augsburger, Harrisonburg, Va; Gaylord Baer, Berlin, Ohio; William Baer, Tanksley, Ky.; Kenneth S. Brunk, Kingston, Jamaica; Lawrence Brunk, Lima, Ohio; Rudy Brunk, Oneida, Ky.; Ezra O. Good, Knoxville, Tenn.; Harold Good, Elida, Ohio; Marion E. Good, Logan, Ohio; Edwin Hartman, Elida, Ohio (licensed); Wilmer J. Hartman, Rittman, Ohio; Willis A. Miller, Harleysville, Pa.; J. David Ramer, Elida, Ohio; 1. Mark Ross, Sarasota, Fla.; Richard Ross, Wooster, Ohio; Otho Shenk, Elida, Ohio; Paul W. Smith, Elida, Ohio; David Good, Nampa, Idaho, and Carl V. Yoder, Archbold, Ohio.

The following from the Pike congregation were ordained deacon: Arthur S. Brunk, South Boston, Va.; Leonard S. Brunk, Westfield, Pa.; Norman Brunk, Logan, Ohio; Solomon Brunk, Delphos, Ohio; Paul G. Hartman, Elida, Ohio; Milton Ramer, Collegeville. Pa.; and Robert R. Ross, Denbigh, Va.

24. For the circumstances leading to this discipline see Orland R. Grieser and Ervin Beck, Jr., Out of the Wilderness: History of the Central Mennonite Church, 1835-1960 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Dean-Hicks Company, 1960), pp. 122-25. The discipline itself appeared in The Christian Exponent, IV (May 20, 1927), p. 159, under the title "Our Position on Nonconformity." The editor of the Exponent commented that the prohibition on musical instruments was "an exception among the churches of the Eastern A.M. Conference." The prohibition did not last long.

25. Grieser and Beck, op. cit., p. 125.

26. Ibid., pp. 138, 139.

27. Ibid., p. 151.

16. The Growth of Newer Congregations

1. All data on the newer congregations come from the respective congregational files of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference.

2. Rebecca E. Miller, "A Study of Urbanization in the Ohio Conference" (unpublished paper in Menno Simons Historical Library and Archives, Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, Va., 1962).

17. One Faith - Many Works

1. Much information on this topic was gathered from Melvin Gingerich. "The Mennonite Women's Missionary Society," MQR, XXXVII (April 1963), p. 127; XXXVII (July 1963), pp. 21433.

2. Ford Berg, "A Weekend at the Brunk Revival in Ohio," GH, XLIV (Nov. 13, 1951), pp. 1093-95.

3. Edward Gerber, "Echoes from Annual Meeting at Christian Laymen's Tent Evangelism, Inc.," OE (January-February, 1953), p. 5.

4. John S. Umble, Ohio Mennonite Sunday Schools (Goshen, Ind.: Mennonite Historical Society, 1941), pp. 273, 274.

5. CBS Beacon, 1953. A publication marking the fortieth anniversary of Canton Bible School.