Education Among the Mennonites of AmericaCentral Mennonite publishing board, 1925 - 195 σελίδες |
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Academy American Mennonitism Anabaptists attended attitude Balzer Bethel College Bishop Bluffton College Board building catechism Christian Christopher Christopher Dock concerning conducted congregation County courses day School denomination Dock's doctrine Eastern Mennonite School elementary Elkhart English established ethical evident faith favor ference Francis Daniel Francis Daniel Pastorius Funk German language German school Germantown Goshen College graduates held Herald of Truth Hesston Hesston College History Ibid ideals Indiana instruction Iowa Kansas meeting Meeting-house Menno Simon Mennonite Church Mennonite Colleges Mennonite Conference Mennonite School Mennonites of America ment method Middle District ministers Montgomery County Mountain Lake movement nonites noted offered Ohio Old Church Old Conference Old Mennonite parochial school Pastorius Pennsylvania persons present public schools pupils Quakers question religion religious education rules says Scripture Skippack spirit Sunday School superintendent Tabor College taught teachers teaching Testament tion Western District Conference Witmarsum Witmarsum Theological Seminary Young People's
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Σελίδα 178 - Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose from the dead ; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
Σελίδα 178 - And in Jesus Christ his only (begotten) Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary...
Σελίδα 33 - So closely do these views correspond with those of George Fox, that we are compelled to view him as the unconscious exponent of the doctrine, practice, and discipline of the ancient and strict party of the Dutch Mennonites...
Σελίδα 72 - ... renewed. 9. Never give your children anything because they cry for it. 10. On no account allow them to do at one time what you have forbidden, under the like circumstances, at another.
Σελίδα 30 - At our Monthly Meeting at Dublin, y" 30 — 2 mo., 1688, we having inspected y" matter, above mentioned, and considered of it, we find it so weighty that we think it not expedient for us to meddle with it here, but do rather commit it to y' consideration of y" Quarterly Meeting ; y" tenor of it being nearly related to y
Σελίδα 65 - ... exercises. These are examined and numbered, and then the first in turn is given a hard word to spell. If he fails the next must spell it and so on. The one to spell correctly receives his exercise. Then the first is given another hard word, and so each receives his exercise by spelling a word correctly. As the children carry their dinner, an hour's liberty is given them after dinner. But as they are usually inclined to misapply their time if one is not constantly with them, one or two of them...
Σελίδα 42 - Regarding revenge, whereby we resist our enemies with the sword, we believe and confess that the Lord Jesus has forbidden his disciples and followers all revenge and resistance, and has thereby commanded them not to "return evil for evil, nor railing for railing ;" but to "put up the sword into the sheath," or, as the prophets foretold, "beat them into ploughshares.
Σελίδα 50 - Pennsylvania, as has already been stated, did next to nothing to promote the cause of general education during the long period from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of their rule in 1776. Charters were granted to a few educational institutions, some laws were passed securing to religious societies the right to hold property for school purposes, and in special cases enabling them to raise money by lottery to build schoolhouses; but this was all. Penn's broad policy respecting public...
Σελίδα 43 - ... there are few things, if any, more important to the steady growth of a free nation than the maintenance of domestic virtues and the sanctities of family life."28 They believe in helping the State and the nation, not by means of war and great standing armies, but by the useful and productive industries of peace; by earning an honest living, paying just debts and equitable taxes, by avoiding strife and contention as far as possible, by settling peaceably, man to man or by additional counsellors,...
Σελίδα 55 - In the year 1688 he drew up a memorial against slaveholding, which was adopted by the Germantown Friends and sent up to the Monthly Meeting, and thence to the Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia.