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Bender to Burkholder, October 7, 1920

18 hand-written pages on the Young People's Conference movement evidently in response to a questionnaire YPC executives (Bender being executive committee chair) had sent out. Bender wrote: YPC leaders were trying to upbuild the church; appreciating Burkholder's tone; YPC did not want to compete with other church organizations for youths' participation; evidence of marginal young people becoming more loyal to the church; etc etc. At one point Bender turned the tables and asked what young people in Ontario were doing by way of mission, etc. Bender admitted that the YPC was too dominated by Goshen people. Mention of N. O. Blosser and J. B. Shank and Jesse Smucker as speakers (Smucker's "address ... certainly was a clear, sound testimony with theemphasis on inspiration, atonement, the cross etc." [cf. fundamentalism or at least orthodoxy]. Remarks about attire, and too-easy "familiarity of the sexes" and a "sprit of entertainment." The question of authority. (Note: the letter has some lines marked through with pencil, as if it were not the final draft; moreover, there is one page here of what appears to be carbon of a typed copy; and yes, there is a 6 pp, typed, single-spaced carbon version of the letter here.)

Burkholder to Bender, January 21, 1929

The letter is a chapter-and-verse indictment of an address of J. E. Hartzler [John E. Hartzler, John Ellsworth Hartzler] to the "Y" at Kitchener; Bender replied with brief agreement, then fulfilled a Burkholder request that he furnish information on Benjamin Eby. Other letters in the folder are also cordial, respectful, brotherly.

Burkholder, Oscar (1886-1956)

Maynard Cassady to Bender

Maynard [L. Cassady, 1897-1948] wrote long letters from Sweden and then from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (Juniata College?); Maynard wrote 4 letters.

Bender to Matthews

Bender to Shailer Matthews of the the University of Chicago Divinity School asking requirements for taking a Ph.D. there in Church history with a dissertation on an Anabaptist topic.

Coffman to Bender

S. F. Coffman [Samuel F. Coffman, Samuel Frederick Coffman] to John Horsch and Bender on "Historical Committee" business.

Correll, Ernst

5/8" stack. Ernst Correll (1894-1982) was a young German scholar who already in the early 1920s, when he met Bender, was knowledgable about Anabaptism; and he helped Bender become the Anabaptist scholar that he (Bender) would become. Very soon Bender helped him emigrate to the United States where he became part of the "Goshen circle" of scholars researching and interpreting Anabaptism. To identify Correll see his entry in GAMEO, and especially for his relation to Bender see entries listed for “Correll, Ernst” in the index of Albert N. Keim’s biography of Bender--esp. pp. 157-58. Correspondence in this folder between Bender and Correll was both personal and dense with matters of Anabaptist-related scholarship. Early letters are in German but in mid-1925 Correll began writing in reasonably good English (at first on Mennonite Historical Society, Goshen College stationery but from Newton, Massachusetts--telling what Anabaptist/Mennonite publications he had found in Harvard libraries and what he had advised librarians there to acquire). In an early letter (7 April 1923) Correll seems to be introducing his credentials.

Correll, Ernst H., 1894-1982

Correll to Smith

Copy of a letter Correll to C. Henry Smith on matters of historical scholarship. In 1928 he was writing from Washington D.C. - Anapolis Maryland addresses.

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