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Weber, Harry F.

1/4” stack. Harry F. Weber (Harry Franklin Weber), 1899-1997, entered Mennonite history and corresponded with Bender mainly regarding his book Centennial History of the Mennonites of Illinois 1829-1929 (1931).

Wenger, A. D.  (Amos Daniel)

Half-dozen items. During the late-nineteenth-century Quickening A. D. Wenger [Amos D. Wenger, Amos Daniel Wenger (1867-1935)] had been a relatively progressive young evangelist from Lancaster Mennonite Conference, and attended Moody Bible Institute. He went on to be was a pastor in Missouri, Iowa, and Virginia and to write church literature materials. From 1922 until his death in 1935 he was president of Eastern Mennonite School. [See GAMEO.]

Yoder, Sanford C.

5/16” thick. Among other roles in church leadership at the time of this folder’s correspondence, Sanford Calvin Yoder [(1879-1975) S. C. Yoder Sanford C. Yoder] was President of Goshen College. For a quick biography see GAMEO; Yoder also wrote some small books of reminiscences, and a larger one, The Days of My Years (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, c1959).

Zigler, M. R. [Michael Robert Zigler]

1/8” stack. Michael Robert Zigler(1891-1985), commonly known as M. R. Zigler, “was an outstanding Church of the Brethren leader who was known for his many efforts in the ecumenical world and for his tireless crusades for the cause of peace.” He “served on the Church of the Brethren national staff from 1919 to 1958” (—Brethren Revival Fellowship [on line, http://www.brfwitness.org/?p=524], Editorial [January/ February, 1987, Volume 22, Number 1]), in various capacities. The correspondence in this folder has mainly to do with Historic Peace Churches sending statements to, or participating in, inter-church conferences in Europe. [ecumenism; pacifism, nonresistance]

Mosemann, John H., Sr.

1/8” stack. John Mosemann, Sr. (1877-1938), was a bishop in Lancaster Mennonite Conference (MC), a manufacturer of peanut butter and seller of cheese, etc. He was quite fundamentalistic and outspoken at trends or developments in the church he deemed to be amiss.

Quiring, Walter

3 letters, in German (note: this annotator’s German is weak, and readers should read descriptions of letters’ contents accordingly). For biographical material on Walter Quiring (earlier known as Jakob), see GAMEO and also the “Creator Description” of his papers here in the MCUSA Archives. Born in the Ukraine in 1893, Jakob Quiring fled the Soviet Union for Germany in 1921, earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Munich in 1928, and became a teacher and a professor, meanwhile changing his name. From 1934 to 1936, he conducted research on Mennonite colonies in Paraguay and Brazil; his publications include: "Deutsche erschliessen den Chaco" (1936), "Russlanddeutsche suchen eine Heimat" (1938), "Im Schweisse deines Angesichts" (1953), "Mennonites in Canada" (1961), and "Als ihre Zeit erfuellt war" (1964). In World War II, drafted into the German army he served as a translator and journalist and was taken prisoner by the British prisoner. In 1950, he emigrated to Canada where he edited various German language publications including "Mennonitische Welt" (1950-1953) and "Der Bote" (1955-1963) and also was as Professor of German and Slavic languages at United College, Winnipeg. He became known for Nazi-like political views. [Notes: most of the information above, and even some phrasing, are from the aforementioned “Creator Description.” Regarding Quiring’s political orientation, see especially the many references to him in John Thiesen, Mennonite and Nazi?] A kind of trilogy, the letters are closely related, following some sort of a Mennonite meeting at Elspet, Holland [probably in tandem with Mennonite World Conference in Amsterdam in 1936]. Apparently Quiring was deeply concerned about decline among Mennonites in the various countries where they had been living, and believed that the colonies in South America could be the loci of Mennonite renewal. His paradigm for renewal seems to have been quite quasi-Nazi: people realizing their respective destinies as peoples, etc. Implicit is a plea that Mennonites needed to heed Quiring’s voice. Along the way, he also defended himself in the Bender letter apparently against a Bender statement that he (Quiring) was not in accord with Mennonites as a church. And, Quiring made numerous references to the “MZK” [surely Mennonitische Zentral Komite--Mennonite Central Committee], including a suggestion that he deserved pay from MCC for some of his work regarding Mennonite refugees in Paraguay and Brazil but he would not ask for it. Quiring ended the letter to Bender with warm personal greetings to Bender and his wife Elizabeth Horsch Bender.

Royer, I. W.  (Isaiah W. Royer)

Thin folder (scarcely a dozen items). Isaiah W. Royer I. W. Royer principally of Orrville, eastern Ohio, was a prominent church leader in the Ohio and Eastern Conference and to some extent in the MC (so-called “old” Mennonite) denomination.

Bender to Horsch

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

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].

Horsch to Bender

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

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

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

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

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