Hist Mss 1-62
John
Ellsworth Hartzler, 1879-1963
Papers,
42 Boxes 2 in Large Box Collection
Biographical Sketch
Mennonite evangelist, writer,
educator, Pastor of Prairie St. Church and dean of Goshen Collge Bible
School, 1910-13; President, Goshen College 1913-18; President, Betherl
College 1920-32; Beirut 1934-35; Professor Hartford Theological
Seminary 1936-19.
Box Listings
Box 1 Correspondence 1904-1912
Green
Box 2 Correspondence 1913-1917 Green
Box 3 Correspondence 1918 A-S Green
Box 4 Correspondence 1918 T-Z - 1919 Green
Box 5 Correspondence 1920 Green
Box 6 Correspondence 1921 Green
Box 7 Correspondence 1922-1923 (P) Green
Box 8 Correspondence 1923 (R) - 1924 Green
Box 9 Correspondence 1925-1930 Green
Box 10 Correspondence 1931-1936 Green
Box 11 Correspondence 1937-1939 Green
Box 12 Correspondence 1940-1942 Green
Box 13 Correspondence 1943-1944 Green
Box 14 Correspondence 1945-1946 Green
Box 15 Correspondence 1947-1948 Green
Box 16 Correspondence 1949-1950 Green
Box 17 Correspondence 1951-1952 Green
Box 18 Correspondence 1953-1954 Green
Box 19 Correspondence 1955-1956 Green
Box 20 Correspondence 1957-1958 Green
Box 21 Correspondence 1959-1960 Green
Box 22 Goshen College Matters Green
Box 23 Goshen College Matters Green
Box 24 Church Problems Green
Box 25 Bethel College, Wimarsum Seminary Green'
Box 26 Biographical Materials Green
Box 27 Lecture, sermon notes Green
Box 28 Lecture, sermon notes Green
Box 29 Lecture, sermon notes Green
Box 30 Lecture, sermon notes Green
Box 31 Lecture, sermon notes Green
Box 32 Lecture, sermon notes Green
Box 33 Lecture notes as student at UTS Green
Box 34 Lecture notes at UTS, cont. ; Miscellaneous Green
Box 35 Tour notes Green
Box 36 Manuscripts Green
Box 37 Manuscripts Green
Box 38 Clippings Green
Box 39 Miscellaneous Green
Box 40 Miscellaneous Green
Box 41 Bound Volumes Large
Box 42 Bound Volumes Large
Series Headings
Correspondence Boxes 1-21
Goshen college matters Boxes 22-23
Church Problems Box 24
Bethel College, Wimarsum Seminary Box 25
Biographical materials Box 26
Lecture, sermon notes Boxes 27-34
Tour notes Box 35
Manuscripts Boxes 36-37
Clippings Box 38
Miscellaneous Boxes 39-40
Bound Volumes Boxes 41-42
Inventory
Correspondence Boxes 1-21
The correspondence is arranged
alphabetically by years. It contains much correspondence with church
leaders concerning evangelistic work, publications, and church problems
particualarly the modernist-fundamentalist controversy centering
especially on the Goshen College issue. For the correspondence directly
related to Goshen College see boxes 22 and 23.
Goshen College matters Boxes
22-23
These boxes contain materials from
the time of J. E. Hartzler's presidency and beyone. The correspondence
reflects the controversy in the church over teh education question of
the college in 1923. A folder by folder listing follows:
Box 22
Elkhart Institute Stock
Elkhart Institute - D. S. Yoder material
Elkhart INstitute miscellaneous
Goshen College 1912-1915
Goshen College clippings 1913-1914
Goshen College J. E. H. Diary 1913-1914
Goshen College 1916
Goshen College 1917
Goshen College 1918
Goshen College 1922-1925
Goshen College 1924-1925 Rudy Senger correspondence
Reist Correspondence 1924, 1935, 1959
Umble correspondence 1951-1954
Personal inauguration 1913
Personal inauguration congratulations
Goshen College Personal-Clippings, miscellaneous
Box 23
Agricultural Work Letters
Clippings
Committee on Church and School Problems 1915-1918
Corporation Government Committee 1916-
Faculty Members (Recommendations for 1915-1917
Financial Concerns 1914
Financial Concerns 1915
Financial Concerns, Pres. 1916-1918
Financial Concerns 1915-1917
Financial Statement 1919-1920
Gospel Herald, Articles sent from publication
Horsch, John and Derstine, Clayton 1915-1921
Investigating Committee 1916-1918
Kokomo: Mast, Slaubaugh, Horner, & King, 1916-1917
Magazine Correspondence 1915
Mennonite Board of Education-Personal 1918
Moseman, John H. 1914-1915
Prayer and Look-ahead Group 1916
Religious Welfare Committee 1915
Textbook Committee 1916-1917
Church Problems Box 24
Contains correspondence regarding
troubles in variouschurches and areas. The issues relate to those of
the previous two boxes. A folder by folder listing follows:
Church letter 1920
Church letter 1921
1922 correspondence
Conference letter 1925
Basinger, Elmer re Freeman College 1925
Brunk, George R. 1924-1937
Chapel and Zion churches, Ohio
Dress issue - O. B. Gerig letter 6/15/20
1921 Mennonite General Conference statement
Dress issue letter to J. G. Hartzler 7/1/25
Dress issue 1928 letter of J. S. Hartzler Bixler, Grosh
Elida, Ohio
Elida, Ohio 1925 clippings
Fulton co. Ohio
Hartford Seminary
Ind.-Mich. difficulties Conference-Bixler 1917-1922
Kauffman, Daniel Correspondence 1921, 1924-25
Kalona, Iowa
Lambert, George
Lambert, George- clippings
Mack, Noah
Maple Grove MC, Topeka, In., 1924 Bible lecture project
Miscellaneous Modernist-fundamentalist controversy miscellaneous
Orrville, Ohio
Question of coference affiliation for independents
Roseland, Nebraska letters from Henry Burkhard
Shelly, Warren S. 1927
Twenty-Sixth St. Mission Chicago, Ill.
Yoder, J. W. correspondence 1951
Box 25
Bethel College, Wimarsum seminary
Miscellaneous
Committee on School of Religion 1919-1920
Theological Seminary., Letters, Reports, Lectures 1921-1934
Witmarsum Seminary manuscript
miscellaneous
Seminary Scholarship Fund
A United Mennonite Seminary
Box 26
Biographical materials, diearies
Autobiagraphy-origianl copy
Typed Copy
Diary 1904-1908
Diary 1908-1911
Funeral Plans?
Miscellaneous
School Teachers Creed
Boxes 27-35
Lecture, sermon notes
See also boxes 41 and 42 of bound
volumes of lectures and sermons.
Box 27
Alcoholism - Lectures 1946
Alcoholism - Notes
Anniversary Lectures
The Bible and What it Teaches
A Bishop Fails
Christian Essentials
Christian Foundations
The Christian Way of Life
Box 28
Church and War
Commencement Addresses & Institue Lectures
The Educational Problems of the Mennonite Church in America
Evangelism
I John
Freeman lectures 1918
Goldsmith family
Goshen College Addresses
Box 29
The Gospel After Fifty Years (50th
anniversary of ordination to ministry)
Gospel of John
Hebrews
Jesus
Kenagy, Jacob C. (100th anniversary South Union M. C., West Liberty,
Ohio)
Life Problems of Young People, and Man
Looking Ahead (the 1952 elcetions)
The Mennonite Church and Modernism (in Christian Exponent)
Miscellaneous notes
Modern Trends
Modernism in the Menonite Church
Palestine
Philosophy
Popular-Educational
Prayers
Rotary
Russia
Box 30
Sermon briefs
Sermons
Sermons-Recent
Sermonettes
The Supremacy of Christianity
Box 31
The Teaching of Jesus
Thorns and Roses
What America Needs Most, America; Coming or Going?
Witmarsum lectures 1921-1931, Psychology of Religion
Box 32 Sermon outlines
Box 33 Seminary notes as UTS student
Box 34 UTS, cont.; Miscellaneous
Contains Hartford seminaryclassbook, 3 registers of sermons and
lectures and social psychologylecture notes as well as 1 book of UTS
notes.
Box 35 Tour notes
Contains notes of 1926 European
tour, 1950 seminary toEurope, 1953 Round the World Tour, and 1959
Russian tour.
Manuscripts Boxes 36-37
The Significance of the Jerusalem
Church in Early Christianity (Thesis for M. A. Uni. of Chicago, 1919)
The Supremacy of Christianity
Paths to Perdition
The Conservation of American Childhood
The Meaning of Education
The Philosophy of Greatness
Preaching
Things Worth While
The Turbines of Civilization
Clippings Box 38
Obstruction of the draft
Different Countries
Goshen College
Jewish Arab Educator
Middle East & Near East
Russia and Communism
Miscellaneous
Miscellanesou Boxes 39-40
Book review: Mennonite Piety
Through the Centuries, Friedmann
Elkhart Literary Society 1933 letteer
John Elwood Hartzler -Akron Beacon Journal Article 7/24/66
Hartzler-Faculty Dinner 1963
Ind/Mich. Conference on Military Training, 1917
Plank, David Manuscript 1898, South Union Church, Ohio Puleston
Blunders of World War II by Captain W. D.
History of the Bethel Mennonite Church by Lois Pearl Hartzler
History of Mission Work by G. L. Bender
America's Race Difference and the Christian Principle by Leroy Mitchell
The Kant-Schleiermacher-Ritschlian Movement by J. B. Shellhaas
Various Items
Box 40
2 New Testatments; 1 Bible with J.
E. markings Elkhart Institute Memorial Kauffman, Daniel. Bible Doctrine
Social Science.
Bound Volumes Boxes 41-42
Box 41
I went to College ( autobiography)
Christ and Social Groups by V, D. Smissesn
Concerning God and Jesus Christ
Concerning the Christian Life
The Church and Religion in General
Sermons - Miscellaneous
Lectures - Educational and Popular
Lectures - Educational and Popular
Sermonettes, Proverbs, Prverbial Sayings
Lectures and Sermons
Lectures, Commencements, rotary
Theology, Philosophy
Box 42
Systematic theology, The Kingdom
of God
Philosophy, Plato, Philosophy of Religion
Christian ethics
Theism, Apologetics, Chrisitan Evidence, Christian Doctrine
Travel Lectures
Education Among the Mennonites of America (J. E. Hartzler dissertation
-3 copies in different stages)
A -Ledger book of notes for his dissertation
Goshen College Byers- Hartzler Administrations
New Palaces for Old - manuscript and 3 printed pamphlets
Toward a New World pamphlet card file of J. E. Hartzler library
War Sermons
March 22, 2004 / Reformatted by
Kathryn Yoder
July 25, 2001 / Update by Monica Zimmerman
February 19, 2001 / Typed into computer and posted on web by Erin Wilson
April 21, 1977 / Processed by Sharon Klingelsmith
File "Hm1-062b.doc"
Mennonite
Church USA Archives - Goshen, 1700 S. Main St., Goshen, IN 46526