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Horsch to Bender: that Horsch had mistakenly omitted a paragraph in his “Peace Conference” paper, wanted it added to the mimeographed version; surprised by “article in the Zondagsbode in reply to my article”; about discussion in the Rundschau stating Menno was an immersionist as the Mennonite Brethren believed; information about prices etc., in Germany, as Benders were going there.

Horsch to Bender: sending article and letters “from Lautenbach”; on work of committee investigating “things” at Mennonite Publishing House--Aaron [surely Aaron Loucks] would be manager until May 1, request for his resignation was expected; Horsch thought the board should give Loucks some sort of job thereafter, but that was pending; mention Nathaniel Peffer article in Harpers of August 1934, on American Pacifism--it had some good points; wanted Bender comment on a Horsch letter to Peace Problems Committee.

Horsch to Bender [really to “Dear Ones”]: the committee “to adjust the difficulties here” [i.e. at Mennonite Publishing House, surely], with Allgyer [surely S. E. Allgyer, Samuel E. Allgyer] as chair and Orie O. Miller as secretary, had finished; Irvin Brunk made the requested confession, Anna Bender did not, rumor that some had withdrawn membership; Horsch was sure Aaron Loucks did not deserve “expulsion” and thought those demanding it “were wrong in their attitude”; about Presbyterian General Assembly action against “Prof. Machen” [John Gresham Machen; Fundamentalism].

Horsch to Bender: Ernst Correll had sent “copy of his editorial to my article--Horsch had no “criticism” of it, but too bad Correll had not seen the article; still had not gotten “the book ‘Anti-Menno’ by Reimarus (Penner); if available, surely Unruh [Benjamin Unruh?] could get it; about a statement by Walter Fellmann in current Jugenwarte concerning Strasburg Conference of 1555, and about “‘our’” position on “the two natures of Christ” [Christology]; about whether Menno [Menno Simons] excommunicated for attending state church; John C. Wenger [J. C. Wenger, John Christian Wenger] had written saying he “greatly enjoyed his year at Westminster” [Westminster Theological Seminary] except for Calvinism of some teachers--Wenger “feels better able to defend the faith against the onslaught of modern thought”; he had not mentioned “a word of their supposed militarism [pacifism, nonresistance]; curious whether Prof. Koehler [Walther Köhler, Walter Köhler, Walther Koehler]—see GAMEO] had commented on Horsch articles in Mennonite Quarterly Review.
Date on letter: May 3, 1935

Bender to Horsch had spoken with Hege about status of Mennonitische Lexikon, about Taeufer-Akten, new Historical Society; letter from Burkholder enclosed [Lewis J. Burkholder, L. J. Burkholder?]; mention of “Engle”--as if Brethren in Christ, saying he knew of no German who could write in English and correspond with Brethren in Christ; had handed in his thesis on Thursday, August 1--details; “Cornelius Krahn, a Russian Mennonite, is taking his degree at Heidelberg” under Köhler [Walther Köhler, Walther Koehler (not Walter Köhler, Walter Koehler)--see GAMEO] with thesis on Menno Simons; mention Christine Horsch, family matters, Trudy Klaassen, Nancy Bender, Elizabeth Horsch Bender; “Grandpappa Schmutz, father of Helena [Helena Schmutz?]; A. J. Metzler [Abram J. Metzler] as new manager of Mennonite Publishing House; Elizabeth Binkele to arrive in the United States; Bender’s brother Cecil Bender [Cecil K. Bender, Cecil Kolb Bender].

Horsch to Bender, postcard: ... that S. F. Coffman [Samuel Frederick Coffman] had written a good article “on the question of fairness in giving information about other countries [surely regarding dispute between Horsch and C. F. Derstine (Clayton F. Derstine) about comments on Germany in Derstine’s World News column in Christian Monitor; politics, Nazism, fascism].

Bender to Horsch suggested writing to Elias Walter about help to pay for the Hutterian history.

Horsch to Bender: on postponement of some sort of conference, decision that Bender and S. F. Coffman [Samuel Frederick Coffman] should talk the matter over at Mission Board meeting; on publishing something, probably small and sketchy, on Menno Simons rather than his whole Works; on printing the Gemeinschaftliche Liedersammlung. Horsch to Bender, penciled “May 1936?”; on date of Menno Simons’ baptism; difference with Krahn [Cornelius Krahn] on how radical Menno was about Christ’s deity [Christology]; other scholarly disputes, including with “Neff” [Christian Neff?]; English translation of Menno’s works was incomplete, 3 pages omitted “on purpose”, etc.

Bender to Horsch: thanks for criticisms; on something Cornelius Krahn had written from Menno Simons’ Fundamentbuch (Foundation Book); mentions of Neff [Christian Neff?], Hofmann’s baptism [Melchior Hoffman (Melchior Hofmann, Melchior Hofman), the noted early Anabaptist leader?], Obbe Philips, Dirk Philips, Jan Mathys fanaticism [Münster, Muenster], Wismar resolutions, Appolonia Ottes, the ban.

Horsch to Bender: sending review of Krahn’s Menno Simons book; still had article on Menno and the ban, offering “a new view” quite different e.g. from C. H. Smith [C. Henry Smith] in Smith’s book on Menno; much interested in Bender’s article on Germany; mention of Benjamin Unruh.

Horsch to Bender: would appreciate information on “Bro. Lehman’s reaction on my Observations.”

Bender to Horsch: had not yet shown the criticisms to “M. C. Lehman”; had shown them to S. C. Yoder and C. L. Graber [Sanford C. Yoder, Chris Graber, Christian L. Graber]; “This is a peculiar case” and Bender preferred to discuss it sometime with Horsch “in person”; strangely Lehman had not defended the article to Bender although he had to Yoder and to I. E. Burkhart [Irvin E. Burkhart]; “We are not bringing any charges against Lehman at this time, probably not at all, provided he does not stir the matter up”; “we” felt exactly as you did” about it, but thought publishing the article would bring “serious trouble both for him and for the school”; “Lehman of course protests his orthodoxy”; etc.

Copy of letter evidently by Horsch, to M. C. Lehman: disappointed in Lehman’s letter, etc.

Horsch to Bender: Daniel Kauffman had handed Horsch an article by “M. C. L. [M. C. Lehman, Martin Clifford Lehman] “on Mennonites and Humanism” for Gospel Herald; Horsch found it “fully as objectionable as the one printed in the Bulletin”; could send [Horsch’s] critique, but had the article clandestinely; two Hutterite elders were in Europe visiting the Bruderhoefe [sic--surely Rhoen Bruderhof, Rhönbruderhof (Hessen, Germany)--followers of Eberhard Arnold and considered Hutterites--see GAMEO]” and would also visit “Uncle Michael” [Michael Horsch]; Christenpflicht Committee [sic] had given the Bruderhof $300; a new edition of Horsch’s Modern Religious Liberalism was about to come out.

Bender telling Horsch in effect all was on the up and up, Horsch could be at peace about it [ganz ruhig sein], and Orie O. Miller rather than Kratz had done the transaction [surely Maxwell H. Kratz, 1875-1939, who according to GAMEO was “one of the three men elected to the first Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) on 27 September 1920” and “was active in the leadership of the MCC during its first projects of Russian relief, the purchase of land in Paraguay, and its incorporation”].