File Folder 1 - E - miscellaneous

Thin file (about 35 items) Lewis M. Hoskins to Bender, October 31, 1960 [stationery of Earlham College, Richmond Indiana, Hoskins as Campus Coordinator]: mention Earlham President Landrum Bolling; Earlham had a project in Kenya, operating a high school and teachers’ college; needed someone compatible with Friends Africa Mission personnel and who had proper training to teach educational theory; do you know someone suitable? REPLY, Bender to Lewis M. Hoskins, November 29, 1960: since same letter had gone to Goshen President Paul Mininger, Bender was letting him reply; Bender had nobody to suggest from the Seminary. Myron Ebersole to Bender, J. H. Yoder, Nelson Springer, February 19, 1959 [from a Chicago address; John H. Yoder, John Howard Yoder]: writing for help for his Master’s thesis “Significant Theological Presuppositions for Church Related Psychiatric Services”...; wanted to use Mennonite Historical Library; would come to Goshen-Elkhart as often as possible, but C. J. Dyck had consented to bring material to Chicago as well [Cornelius J. Dyck]. ATTACHED, copy of Ebersole’s applications to be an A.M. degree candidate at University of Chicago, dated January 30, 1959. CONTIGUOUS, Myron Ebersole to Bender, March 27, 1959: request for materials prepared for Bender’s Seminar on Anabaptist Theology. REPLY, Bender to Myron Ebersole, April 15, 1959: thought Nelson Springer was replying re library materials...; re those Anabaptist Theology seminar papers, find the good ones published in Mennonite Quarterly Review in 1950 and 1951. Robert Ebersole to Bender, May 9, 1962 [stationery of Monterey Mennonite Church, Leola Pennsylvania, Glenn Esh Pastor]: enclosing $59.60 check, i.e. Sunday’s offering less $11 for a newspaper ad; apology that writer and his wife [Geraldine M. Hummel Ebersole, Geraldine Ebersole] had not been present in the afternoon, due to dedication of the new EUB church where her parents attended; appreciation, and heard others’ appreciation, for your morning message. Memorandum, Bender to Henry Eby, February 18, 1960: please prepare a $65 check to pay dues to AATS [American Association of Theological Schools]. Bender to Walter Eisenbeis, March 15, 1958 [to Chicago address]: thanks for 3 packages of translations; Joint Administrative Committee of AMBS had appointed Eisenbeis to be research assistant of Institute of Mennonite Studies next year--details of dates, pay, etc., and assumption you will live in Chicago; because of U.S. immigration restrictions your wife will not be employed; your work will be to prepare an Anabaptist bibliography and a Mennonite bibliography of 16th and 17th century materials;...a bit more. REPLY, Walter Eisenbeis to Bender, March 23, 1958 [in German]: thanks and comments about some earlier communications; a paragraph about some articles on Ritschl and on the Lutheran church, and George Witzel’s leaving Lutheranism..., but this paragraph is more or less scratched out; regarding your March 15 letter, thanks especially for your friendly efforts, but just now Eisenbeis could not say until after next Thursday when he would converse with Dr. Harrelson about his work on a project to which Eisenbeis was quite committed; P.S. if he could find time, he would come to the Anabaptist Seminar. CONTIGUOUS, Walter Eisenbeis to Bender, March 26, 1958 [in German]: enclosed was a price list (attached) for duplicating photographs; please write if you are interested in microfilms....// Had spoken with Dr. Harrelson; would continue to work for him; explained.... CONTIGUOUS, Walter Eisenbeis to Bender, January 13, 1959 [in German]: had written a letter to you some months ago about translation done for you; about an advance payment received; half-page more about the project, requesting information, etc. For Encyclopedia Britannica, Walter Yust to Bender, June 19, 1959 [Yust the Editor; from Chicago]: for “a forthcoming printing”, planned articles on Conrad Grebel and Pilgram Marbeck [Pilgram Marpeck]; would you write them? REPLY, Bender to John V. Dodge, July 17, 1959 [Dodge, Managing Editor of Encyclopedia Britannica]: Yes. REPLY, John V. Dodge to Bender, July 22, 1959: Pleased; sending “a Contributor’s Guide” and payment information forms; deadline October 1, 1959. ATTACHED, Bender’s two articles, each less than one side of one page double-spaced. J. Martin England to Bender, September 14, 1961 [stationery of The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of the American Baptist Convention, Mr. England being Administrative Secretary]: enclosed was “a copy of a letter to Rev. John F. Crouthamel” re possible “informal conversations between members of bodies with some Anabaptist background”; a number would be interested in discussing points of “The Anabaptist Vision”; on this had spoken a bit with Dan West [? Daniel West ?], Paul Peachey, John Eberly, Harold Sherk, and Elmer Neufeld. ATTACHED, copy of J. Martin England to John F. Crouthamel, September 14, 1961: your sermon last Sunday had stimulated England to reread Bender’s “The Anabaptist Vision”; struck that Baptists hold to every Anabaptist distinctive Bender had named except one, what Crouthamel called “‘the unconsenting conscience’”; mentioned others possibly to be brought into the discussion, e.g. Culbert Rutenber, Dr. R. E. E. Harkness [?? Reuben E. E. Harkness, Reuben Harkness ??]; mention Forest Ashbrook proposing Baptist conversations with Church of the Brethren and Disciples of Christ; recently there had been talks at Goshen College with Methodists; cc’s Bender, C. G. Rutenber [Culbert G. Rutenber], John W. Thomas. John F. Enns to Bender, February 11, 1959 [datelined, University of Chicago]: enclosing a manuscript, at behest of a professor who advised him to submit it to several theological journals; appreciative word for treatment during a visit to Goshen last summer; his current project was “The Emerging Mennonite Church on the Mission Field” with focus on the Congo field. REPLY, Bender to John F. Enns, February 17, 1959: had read your article, “The Christological Triumph of Anabaptism”; “quite interested in your thesis”; reference to a 1950 article by Bender, “The Anabaptist Theology of Discipleship”; ...thought your point worth publishing to stimulate further scholarship; asked a bit about an article cited, M. J. Regier, “Theology of the Anabaptists”; a bit more.... Jacob J. Enz to Bender, July 5, 1962 [stationery of Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Enz the Acting Dean]: about need of Marvin Thieszen to take a Mennonite History examination and why; suggested that Delton Franz, Pastor of Woodlawn Mennonite Church in Chicago, with whom Thieszen was working, might administer it.// P. S.: statement of appreciation and sympathy in view of Bender’s illness. Bender to Frank Epp, January 5, 1959 [to The Canadian Mennonite, Altona Manitoba; Frank H. Epp Editor]: noted that a committee of Canadian Mennonite Conference, of which Epp was “the executive officer”, had asked John W. Miller to present a paper at a study conference; noted further that Miller had chosen a different subject than asked, and would speak on “Christian Ethics and Contemporary Economic Problems”; Bender mystified, because Miller‘s field was Old Testament, not Economics, and there were good speakers for economics--e.g. J. Lawrence Burkholder and Guy F. Hershberger from the Committee on Economic and Social Relations [CESR], and others; mystified also since Miller was taking the “Hutterite position” of communal ownership and had led at least two young persons to adopt that positions (they had joined bruderhofs); Epp should know that Miller had left his position on faculty of Goshen Biblical Seminary and spoke only for himself; sending copies to all members of your committee; sending the letter only for information; the case had hurt the Seminary among Canadians; cc’s Paul Mininger, William Klassen, Wm. T. Snyder [William T. Snyder, “Bill” Snyder]. Bender to Frank H. Epp, December 14, 1960 [Frank Epp]: in Epp’s [The Canadian Mennonite] reporting of the MB [Mennonite Brethren Church’s] Centennial Conference, Bender had not seen information on Erland’s Waltner’s “significant act” of asking forgiveness of some events of 1860, and the MBs’ similar response; “You should” print the full texts of both. Frank H. Epp to William T. Snyder, January 20, 1961 [ribbon copy, no letterhead; datelined St. Paul Minnesota; Wm. T. Snyder, “Bill” Snyder, as Executive Secretary, MCC Akron]: that in research and writing for “the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization”, Epp was using a Bender piece, “A Russian Mennonite Document of 1922”, MQR (April, 1953); it had a translation of a document by Phillip Cornies and B. B. Janz [?? Benjamin B. Janz ??]; the documentation indicated MCC had the original; would like a copy; cc Bender, C. J. Dyck [Cornelius J. Dyck]. ATTACHED (with paper clip)--4 notes (none dated):    REPLY letter, William T. Snyder to Frank Epp, January 31, 1961: was referring Epp’s letter to Helen King who would locate the item and respond shortly.    William T. Snyder to Helen King: here was a letter from Frank Epp; please search for the document and if necessary contact Orie Miller....    Helen King to Bro. Miller [? Orie O. Miller ?]--see attached correspondence; do you recall it? penned note at bottom saying HSB must have translated it and “no doubt” had the original.    Penned note William T. Snyder to Frank Epp--on attached copies, note our search; Bender must have it, “so would you look to him"    [end of attached notes] CONTIGUOUS, memorandum, “Executive Office (Miller)” to “Central Files (King)”, February 3, 1961 [on memo form of MCC Akron; from Orie O. Miller]: bit of discussion, and instruction that item was probably in MCC files in Archives at Goshen--so contact Bender. Frank H. Epp to Bender, February 13, 1961 [from S. Paul Minnesota]: on January 20 Epp had sent a letter to William T. Snyder concerning a document published in Mennonite Quarterly Review (April 1953); MCC office had suggested you could find the original; if so, please send Epp a thermofax copy.// Also wanted statistics from 1920 US Census giving number of Mennonites--members and their children--in the USA at that time.// Words of appreciation for Mennonite Encyclopedia; and Bender might be interested in Epp proposal for a dissertation, “An Analysis of Nazism in the Mennonite Press in the 1930s”; only person he knew working on that subject was a Dr. Postma [?? perhaps John Sjouke Postma, “Fernes Heim” (unpublished, copy is in Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College, and possibly elsewhere)]. H. F. Epp to Bender, October 9, 1958 [from Mountain Lake Minnesota]: sending June & July issues of Moody Monthly, for its two-part article by Swedish theologian David Hedegard, “What Does Barthianism Really Teach?”; interesting to have views of a “conservative scholar” on Neo-Orthodoxy.// Epp thought he had written to Bender that J. R. Barkman was succeeding Epp on the Committee of Reference and Council [John R.Barkman]. Bender to Erasmus Haus of Books, November 1, 1960 [to Basel Switzerland]: herewith find a New York check of $317 to pay both accounts we owe--one, 1000 Swiss francs for the “grösse Sammlung” [large collection] which Bender himself had ordered, and 381.60 Swiss francs for “den Bolandus” [?? re Petrus Bolandus ??] CONTIGUOUS, Bender to Erasmus Haus of Books, December 3, 1960 [to Basel Switzerland]: sending $12.50 check for balance of the account; some comment about the books covered. Glenn Esh to Bender, January 22, 1958 [stationery of Monterey Mennonite Church, Leola Pennsylvania; Esh the pastor]: informing Bender that he had decided to do seminary work in the East rather than come to Goshen. Multilithed bulletin of Evangelical Confederation of Colombia, February 15, 1959 [in English]: Item re 2 more Protestants martyred in San Vicente, making 114 in 11 years; another of a priest interrupting a burial service in the same area and a Protestant pastor beaten. Bender to Evangelische Verlagswerk, May 11, 1962 [Protestant Publishing House, Stuttgart Germany]: sending corrected manuscript of the translation of Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision; about the difficulties with this project; apology....