File Folder 7 - M - miscellaneous

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US GCA HM1/278-35-Folder 7

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M - miscellaneous

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  • 1958 - 1962 (Creation)

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This is a "miscellaneous" file. Rather than strictly by date, "miscellaneous" files have entries alphabetized by correspondent, then by date for a given correspondent. Also--

NOTE: this annotator’s German is not strong; so the descriptions of German-language materials may be incomplete and not fully accurate.

Sizable file (about 75

items)

{1} Telegram, Thomas Mabry to Bender, January 31, 1959 [Mabry--of Life Photographic Exhibitions, New York City]: “PROTESTANT REVOLUTION EXHIBITION BEING SENT TODAY FROM SCOTTDALE PENNSYLVANIA”; may have until February 1.

{2} FOUR entries

re John A. Mackay--Brian Kirkland to Bender, March [no day], 1959 [stationery of Princeton Theological Seminary; Kirkland chairman of Speer Library Campaign]: trying to raise $95,000 remaining to finance the project before Dr. MacKay’s retirement in June [likely the seminary’s president, John A. Mackay]...

• • • REPLY, Stanley Kiehl Gambell and Peter K. Emmons to “Dear Fellow Alumnus, April 7, 1959 [stationery of Princeton Theological Seminary; Gambel president of the Alumni Association, Emmons president of Board of Trustees]: as with item just above, soliciting money for Speer Library Campaign; reverse side, draft of Bender reply:

• • • ATTACHED REPLY (as typed), Bender to John A. Mackay [sic], April 28, 1959: warmly congratulatory letter on occasion of Mackay’s retirement.

• • • ATTACHED, Bender to Stanley Kiehl Cambell, April 28, 1959: enclosing greeting letter to Mackay, and $5.

{3} FOUR entries

Dr. Robert A. Macoskey to Bender, January 5, 1959 [stationery of Alderson-Broaddus College, Pillippi West Virginia; Macoskey of Department of Religion and Philosophy]: enclosing his dissertation, “The Life and Thought of Balthasar Hübmaier, 1485-1525; mention having been in Europe; hoped to see the dissertation printed; suggested Mennonite Historical Society and Mennonite Publishing House might be interested.

• • • REPLY, Bender to Robert A. Macoskey, January 12, 1959: had known nothing of your dissertation, grateful for it; had dipped a bit into it and was interested; in light of other commitments, could not give high hopes of publishing it.\ Re William S. Lewis translation of Hubmaier’s complete writings into English; Goshen had a copy of the translation, about getting it on microfilm.

• • • CONTIGUOUS, Robert A. Macoskey to Bender, April 8, 1959: needed his dissertation back, to write some Hubmaier articles; about terms for Goshen getting the microfilm mentioned.

• • • CONTIGUOUS, Bender to Robert A. Macoskey, April 17, 1959: despite valuable information in the dissertation, “we” had decided not to publish it; thanks for information about microfilm.

{4} Bender to Allan A. Macrae, January 6, 1961 [to Macrae, President of Faith Theological Seminary, Philadelphia]: reference to Macrae letter of December 12, 1960 [not extant here]; Goshen College could not give credit for graduate-level work, but Goshen Biblical Seminary could, and would grant it to Faith Theological Seminary courses; mention Robert Detweiler, “a Faith graduate”, now being assistant pastor at College Mennonite Church.

{5} Bender to Dr. Paul L. Maier, November 28, 1961 [to Kalamazoo Michigan street address]: at the suggestion of William Klassen, asking Maier to review Gottfried Maron, Individualismus und Gemeinschaft bei Casper von Schwenckfeld.

{6} Cleo Mann to J. D. Graber, June 30, 1959 [from Indianapolis, Indiana; Joseph D. Graber]: wrote of meeting a Japanese traveler, a Mr. Tsuda, somehow stranded in a Union Station [bus? train?] in Indianapolis, and taking him home and making a friend; Tsuda was Secretary of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, a delegate to a missionary conference in Anderson Indiana, and an official guest at the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway; also, he was third-generation Christian and immediately recognized Mennonites as a Peace Church, indeed seemed to know the Mennonite Church’s history, etc.; he might be a person to explore further for Relief, Service, and Peace work; cc’s to Bender, Paul Peachey, Melvin Gingerich.

{7} TWO entries

Albert Martin to Bender, January 15, 1959 [from Zurich Ontario]: Martin was to teach five evening classes of Mennonite history; wanted help for a textbook.

• • • REPLY, Bender to Albert Martin, January 21, 1959: suggested J. C. Wenger, Glimpses of Mennonite History and Doctrine; Bender’s Mennonite Origins in Europe; and C. H. Smith, Mennonites in America; [John C. Wenger, C. Henry Smith].

{8} TWO entries

Ernest D. Martin to Bender, August 11, 1958 [from Columbiana Ohio]: Ohio Conference Historical Committee; writer understood J. N. Byler was a good historian [Joseph N. Byler]; can you give guidance?

• • • REPLY, Bender to Ernest D. Martin, October 8, 1958: “mixed feeling” about J. N. Byler, despite how few people qualified; writing was not Byler’s strong point; why not yourself?....

{9} J. E. Martin to Bender, November 3, 1958: about a person named something like Hartsburg, who had moved near Pleasant Grove Mennonite Church at Seybert, West Virginia, and had attended Goshen College; some description of the man and wanted to know more about him.// Martin and wife had traveled, and stopped at Versailles Missouri and stopped at Mt. Zion Mennonite Church, home of Daniel Kauffman’s rearing, baptism, etc.; proposed there should be some kind of monument there; elaborated.

{10} TWO entries

John R. Martin to Bender, October 7, 1958 [stationery of National Service Board for Religious Objectors; Martin as Associate Executive Secretary]: the NSBRO received Christian Beacon, and it had an article on several persons who met “with the Mennonite delegation in Chicago”; Martin did not agree 2with Carl McIntire’s work, but a statement signed by some of “these Baptist leaders and sent to Bulganin” [sic] had made Martin curious about the men....

• • • REPLY, Bender to John R. Martin, October 16, 1958: reminded Martin of the many pressures and much propaganda that such leaders faced in the Soviet context [USSR, Russia, communism]; but contrary to the editorial writer in Christian Beacon, Bender was sure the men were not spies, etc. (further comment).

{11} Postcard, Paul H. Martin to Bender, February 15, 1961 [from La Junta Colorado]: warm appreciation for lectures Bender had delivered last week at Hesston, and for Bender’s influence on the writer himself.

{12} J. Robert Kreider to Reverend Richard Martin, January 16, 1961 [to Elida Ohio; J. Robert Kreider as Director of Development at Goshen College]: that Bender indeed had the date of March 26 open and would speak a Gospel message that morning and speak on Russia that evening [USSR, communism]; cc Bender.

{13} Ross Martin to Bender, January 29, 1959 [NIBCO stationery {Northern Indiana Brass Company, Elkhart Indiana}]: would be reducing his giving to Goshen College, to support Elkhart’s library; wanted a report on an account by which his wife Esther Martin was paying to support a student named Vivian Yang; Vivian was pressuring the Martins to support her Hong Kong boyfriend’s coming, and Ross wanted her counseled otherwise.

{14} Memorandum, Karl Massanari to Bender, November 18, 1959: passed along an excerpt from a student describing Bender as a great teacher.

{15} C. Z. Mast to Bender, May 3, 1960 [from Elverson Pennsylvania; penned; Christian Z. Mast, Christian Zook Mast]: reference to Bender’s of April 30th [not extant here]; anticipating your presence for bicentennial celebration of Conestoga Mennonite Church; reference to C. F. Kurtz, pastor of Rock Mennonite Church, very interested in history; Mast expressed his disapproval of celebrating Jacob Mast, 1738-1808, but did not explain why; then gave anecdotes at length about a John P. Mast; mentioned many historic leaders with whom John P. had been a contemporary and in some cases had interacted--John K. Yoder, Isaac Schmucker, David Plank, S. E. Allgyer [Samuel E. Allgyer]; mention John F. Funk [J. F. Funk, John Funk; John S. Coffman, J. S. Coffman, John Coffman].

{16} Bender to Paul B. Maves, December 6, 1958 [Maves a Professor at Drew University Theological School, Madison New Jersey]: on an impending trip East, Bender wanted an interview regarding Drew’s doctoral program in Religious Education; a reason was “[w]e are preparing one of our B.D.-M.R.E. graduates for a call to teach in our Seminary”....

{17} TWO entries

Bender to James I. McCord, March 7, 1962 [misspelled as “McChord”--president of Princeton Theological Seminary]: Bender seeking a room at Princeton to attend Sesquicentennial Lectures, particularly James Steward giving the L. F. Stone Lectures...: also mention “the Carlsbad Colloquy, which he hoped Princeton might imitate in America.

• • • REPLY, James I. McCord to Bender, March 13, 1962: passing Bender’s letter along to person in charge of arrangements.

{18}

Bender to William R. McGrath, April 21, 1959 [to street address at Beltsville Maryland]: Horst Quiring wanted McGrath’s address; apparently you have an unpaid bill with him or some book order;... Bender knew Quiring and wanted to keep American Mennonite relations with him “on the highest level”.

{19} TWO entries

Bender to Wm. McGrath, March 8, 1960 [William R. McGrath, General Delivery Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands]: wished to confirm the address--also to know your occupation and your present church affiliation; invited McGrath to attend dedication of new Seminary building at commencement time.

• • • REPLY, postcard, McGraths to Bender, May 17, 1969 [from Christiansted]: ... had done some communication with the “A.M.A.” about evangelistic tour in Europe, but now not planning to go to Berlin but continue “the work here, D.V.”...

[Carl McIntire] 20th Century Reformation Hour Newsletter to “My dear friend”, January 16, 1962: multilithed newsletter with a 4-page printed item folded with it.

{20} John T. McNeill to Bender [no date] [stationery of The Library of Christian Classics; from Folger Library, Washington D.C.; rather sloppily penned]: in his book Conrad Grebel, c. 1498-1526: The Founder of the Swiss Brethren Sometimes Called Anabaptists Bender had cited some items the writer wanted for his editing of John Calvin’s Institutes--wanted to know where to find the items; bit more about himself and his efforts to find the items.

{21} Bender to H. W. Meihuizen, November 30, 1960 [Hendrik Wiebes Meihuizen, Hendrik Meihuizen, Hendrik W. Meihuizen, The Hague, Netherlands]: wished a copy of Weekblad of September 5, 1959; Bender had cut the picture of the Witmarsum Menno Simons Memorial Church out of Goshen’s copy, to use in Gospel Herald.// Some time ago Bender had sent 10 copies of his booklet “Revelation and Inspiration to Professor Oosterbaan [likely Johannes A. Oosterbaan, Hans Oosterbaan] and asked for a Jaarboekje in exchange; he had gotten no response; [note, for reply see Meihuizen to Bender below at February 17, 1962].

{22} Telegram, Bender to H. W. Meihuizen, November 3, 1961 [Hendrik Wiebes Meihuizen, Hendrik Meihuizen, Hendrik W. Meihuizen; to Bethel College in Kansas]: request for repeat of Meihuizen’s Elkhart lecture at Goshen and invitation that he guest of the Benders for dinner.

{23} Hendrik W. Meihuizen to Bender, January 16, 1962 [from The Hague, Netherlands; Hendrik Wiebes Meihuizen, Hendrik Meihuizen, Hendrik W. Meihuizen; penned in English]: reference to a Bender letter [not extant here]; had phoned [writing unclear; likely R. de Zeeuw]--planning an ADS meeting January 30 [ADS=Algemeene Doopsgezinde Societeit--General Mennonite (literally “baptist-minded”?) Society [A.D.S.; i.e., Dutch Mennonite general conference]; “we” had about 60 to go to Mennonite World Conference, unsure that all could be delegates; about having requested and gotten a different MQR than he had intended; footnote about sending ??--Menno words?? that could be found also in a cantata??.

{24} Bender to H. W. Meihuizen, February 17, 1961 [to a Holland address; Hendrik Wiebes Meihuizen, Hendrik Meihuizen]: thanks for Meihuizen book on Menno Simons; Bender would read it when he finished his own The Nature of the Church and Its Discipleship; wanted the Meihuizen book reviewed in MQR.// Bender and Elizabeth Bender [Elizabeth Horsch Bender] planned some weeks in Europe in June and July, would plan to call on Dutch friends; Bender might arrive early to attend International Mennonite Peace Conference [European Mennonite pacifism, nonresistance] at Heerewegen June 4 following 150th anniversary of ADS [ADS=Algemeene Doopsgezinde Societeit--General Mennonite (literally “baptist-minded”?) Society [A.D.S.; i.e., Dutch Mennonite general conference]....

{25} H. W. Meihuizen to Bender, February 17, 1961 [from The Hague; typed in English; Hendrik Meihuizen, Hendrik W. Meihuizen]: [see Bender to H. W. Meihuizen, November 30, 1960, above]; sending the requested copy of Weekblad; understood Goshen had gotten the jaarboeke; Oosterbaan was careless about acknowledgements, etc.; Meihuizen had not yet received a copy of The Anabaptist Vision; van der Zijpp had gotten an honorary doctorate from Amsterdam University [likely Nanne van der Zijpp].

{26} H. W. Meihuizen to Bender, April 10, 1962 [Hendrik Wiebes Meihuizen, Hendrik Meihuizen, Hendrik W. Meihuizen]: thanks for translating Meihuizen’s Karlsruhe-conference address...; wanted certain corrections of the German copy; Irvin Horst [Irvin B. Horst] had said he would be reviewing Meihuizen’s book--about whether Tjeenk Willnk had sent Goshen a review copy; a list of MQR copies he needed, to fill out his collection....

{27} re Paul Mellinger--document, one page, typed, titled “EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER FROM GULFPORT DATED FEBRUARY 25”; same document as attached to Bender to Milo Kauffman, February 27, 1962, in file “K - miscellaneous, 1958-1962”, indicating the document was from a “local Minister”; document tells of a deep rift at Gulfport on the question of, or perhaps the nature of, Christ’s divinity--plus some lesser issues; spoke of one Paul Mellinger having quite a following.

{28} TWO entries

Bender to Bruce M. Metzger, October 24, 1961 [Metzger a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary]: wanted to know the publisher of “a new edition of Goodspeed’s Index to the Fathers...”; trusted “our Mennonite graduate student..., Peter Fast, is doing well”.

• • • REPLY, Bruce M. Metzger to Bender, October 30, 1961: thought the new edition was a photographic facsimile published by Alec R. Allenson, Incorporated, of Naperville Illinois; positive words re Peter Fast.

{29} Bender to a Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, October 31, 1958 [Dean of the Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Ann Arbor]: wanted leaflet or other information about Oriental Studies at your university; a student on furlough from service in Japan was interested in such study for 1959-1960.

{30} Carl Miller to Bender, November 22, 1960: counting on Bender speaking to youth 5th to 8th grades, to help them begin to think of vocations in terms of Christian commitment; some logistical detail.

{31} D. D. Miller [not Orie’s father] to Bender, September 2, 1959 [David D. Miller, David Miller; stationery of Martins Creek and Berlin Mennonite Churches, Miller as “Bishop - Pastor - Evangelist]: taking off from an (MC) Mennonite General Conference discussion of “the ‘Constitution’”, raised points about whether Bender had not implied too much that discipline lay with district conferences rather than with general Conference; a full-page closely typed letter.

{32} TWO entries

Donald G. Miller to Bender, March 29, 1962 [stationery of Union Theological Seminary, Richmond Virginia]: thanks for great kindness in writer’s visit to Goshen, at “conferences at the Seminary” and in the Bender home...; about a list of Bible questions he could not send but he was sending an exam on which a Mennonite student had made the highest grade of that year’s entrants to the seminary

• • • ATTACHED, exam designed to test basic Bible knowledge.

{33} Bender to Ernest E. Miller [penciled “January 8, 1962”]: Bender’s commendation for bringing “sorely needed” “administrative qualities and educational leadership” back when Miller entered teaching at Goshen College and then the presidency [implied reference to S. C. Yoder? Sanford Yoder, Sanford C. Yoder]; best wishes “as you leave us”.

{34} Ivan J. Miller to Bender, August 16, 1962 [from Grantsville Maryland]: writing as Moderator of Conservative Mennonite Conference, full-page statement of appreciation and sympathy in view of Bender’s illness.

{35} John Ray Miller to Bender, no date–but stamped as if received December 7, 1959 [typewritten on lined paper; NOTE––there is evidence that perhaps Miller did not use his first name John much–J. Ray Miller? Ray Miller?]: appreciated the stand Bender had taken on mode of baptism [check Gospel Herald ?]; offered to help raise money for Bethany Christian High School.

{36} Bender to John W. Miller, April 28, 1959 [Miller at Reba Place, Evanston Illinois]: earlier Bender had sent a note to Princeton Theological Seminary alumni “in this area” about the Speer Library Financial Campaign; was Miller intending to contribute?

{37} John Miller to Bender, September 2, 1962 [stationery of Reba Place Fellowship, Evanston Illinois; John W. Miller, John Wolf Miller]: in light of your illness had been thinking of writing to you or of coming to Goshen to speak with you; had been praying in light of your illness; glad that some from Reba Place had been able to visit you in the hospital; had your book “on the church”--the chapter “on the Holy Community” especially interesting to Miller, who found it “an excellent statement of what it is; a segment of the letter then referred to “the mystery of our own sometimes fragmented relations”, and offers Miller’s confessions for not praying enough for the church, etc.; hoped Bender’s remaining days “may be filled with the ripest fruits of your walk with God.” (NOTE: Bender died on September 21, 1962.)

{38} Lloyd R. Miller to Bender, November 3, 1959 [from Curtis Michigan]: had been thinking about discipleship as it applied to collecting delinquent accounts; might some of your seminary students make a study of this?

{39} TWO entries

Memorandum, Bender to Marvin Miller, September 13, 1961: that Miller was to be Song Leader for Seminary Chapel in September and October.

• • • CONTIGUOUS, Memorandum, Bender to Marvin Miller and Paul Wenger, November 27, 1961: Marvin was responsible for song leadership in 1st semester; Bender suggested that occasionally he ask Wenger, and select another person as well, and work with Bender on this matter.

{40} Memorandum Bender to Mrs. Paul Miller and Mrs. Howard Charles [sic], April 14, 1959 [Bertha Miller? Miriam Charles, Miriam Stalter Charles]: re Seminary Student Wives Fellowship--Mrs. Paul Mininger [Mary Ellen Erb Mininger, Mary Mininger, Mary Ellen Mininger] was sponsor of the Fellowship; Bender had spoken with her and she agreed to have Seminary student wives form their own fellowship; Mrs. Miller had offered her home for a first meeting, and Bender suggested she take the lead in planning that meeting, cooperating with Miriam Charles; remarks about whom Bender was willing to designate as sponsor, etc.

{41} FOUR entries

Robert W. Miller to Bender, April 2, 1962 [stationery of MCC Akron; Miller Director of Foreign Relief and Services]: “We” sent announcements of Goshen College alumni banquet on May 5 at Christopher Dock Mennonite School; Miller thought Bender was communicating with LaMarr Kopp about speaking to Mennonite Student Fellowship at State College; Miller wanted Bender to speak in Lancaster County on Sunday morning, probably at Monterey Mennonite Church.

• • • REPLY, Bender to Robert W. Miller, April 5, 1962: What Miller proposed would not work; Bender offered another, complex proposal.

• • • CONTIGUOUS, Bender to Robert W. Miller, April 18, 1962: Bender would be able to serve at Monterey Mennonite Church on Sunday morning May 6 and at the proposed vespers in the afternoon; he would need some transportation....

• • • CONTIGUOUS, Robert W. Miller to Bender, April 30, 1962: affirming the arrangement; mentioned the vesper service as being jointly of the Monterey and Akron Mennonite Church congregations; mention speaking at the banquet at Christopher Dock school on “The Future of World Mennonitism”.

{42} TWO entries

Sam T. Miller to Bender, September 16, 1959 [writing from Venice, on hotel stationery; likely Samuel T. Miller; referred to Martha, likely his spouse]: from internal evidence, on a trip that had taken him to the USSR [Russia]; had stopped at the Bienenberg school [Bienenberg Mennonite Bible School--later, (English name) Theological Seminary Bienenberg; (German Name) Ausbildungs- und Tagungszentrum Bienenberg; (French Name) Centre de formation et de rencontre Bienenberg], where “Lislie Widmer” [likely Liesel Widmer] had shown Miller a history by Bender [Note: reply indicates Mennonite Encyclopedia]; Miller noted [or complained] that his father had not been included, and wrote glowingly of his father [not named]; ended observing how much work must have gone into the book, etc.

• • • REPLY, Bender to Sam T. Miller, September 24, 1959 [to Elkhart Indiana street address]: explained the process of including or excluding biographies of ministers in Mennonite Encyclopedia’ that only 125 out of 2500 in Mennonite branches got included, etc.

{43} TWO entries

William Robert Miller to Bender, September 26, 1960 [stationery of Fellowship, magazine of Fellowship of Reconciliation, Miller the Managing Editor]: enclosed was edited version of letter received, Bender to A. J. Muste, September 12 [Abraham J. Muste, Abraham Johannes Muste], reduced a bit to fit space; “I was quite dismayed by Zhidkov’s report that Russian Mennonites had abandoned nonresistance [European Mennonite pacifism] and was “overjoyed” to learn from Bender this was not true.// A bit more, about the magazine publishing “Randall Thompson’s oratorio, The Peaceable Kingdom” and about “the FOR bibliography”.

• • • ATTACHED, copy of a statement by Bender [apparently the edited version?], titled “Mennonites and Self-Defense”, aimed at correcting A. J. Muste’s article “Their Church and Ours” (Fellowship, November 1, 1959), that drew on a “statement by Jacob Zhidkov” on Mennonites in Russia losing their nonresistance after World War I [nonresistance, pacifism, military draft, alternative service, noncombatant service]; to answer, Bender offered quotations from Mennonite Encyclopedia Supplement article “Selbschutz” that indicated only a small minority of Mennonites in Russia [Soviet Union, USSR] took the self-defense route.

{44} TWO entries

Hiroshi Mine to Bender, July 4, 1962 [handwritten in readable English from Hokkaido Japan]: writer identified self as a young man age 24; that he had “earnestly” studied “your book”; J. Richards and Robert Ree had told him of Bender’s illness [likely “Joe” Richards, Joseph Richards”, and Robert Lee]; that in Hokkaido “we” aim at following “our Lord Christ” fully, since lessons from H. H. Charles [Howard Charles, Howard H. Charles]...; we pray for your recovery.

• • • CONTIGUOUS, Hiroshi Mine to Bender, July 20, 1962: more much the same; reference to listening to Bender lecture No. 3; emphasis we are praying for you.

{45} Bender to Paul S. Minear, March 24, 1960 [Minear of Yale Divinity School]: that Hendrik Kraemer had referred to Minear paper that claimed finding 80 terms by which the New Testament referred to the church; Bender much wanted a copy if available.

{46} TWO entries

Gerd Mohn to Bender, July 28, 1961 [stationery of Mohn’s Publishing House, apparently at Gütersloh in Germany; in German]: wanted clarity submitting an Anabaptist bibliography to his press; mentioned working with Dr. Quiring [likely Horst Quiring] and with Professor Bornkamm [likely Heinrich Bornkamm]....

• • • REPLY, Bender to Gerd Mohn, August 3, 1961: wrote of Dr. Quiring and indicated that the Institute of Mennonite Studies was the publisher of the American edition of the Anabaptist bibliography; mentioned the publishing house of Schmidt in Neustadt had not finished preparing the second correction; details of the publication’s status.

{47} SIX entries

re Moravians--J. Richard Jones to Bender, October 31, 1958 [stationery of Moravian College, Bethlehem Pennsylvania; Jones the Head of the History department]: his college planned a symposium March 14, 1959, on German Pietistic Thought in Colonial America--and hoped Bender might do a paper on Mennonite thought there; $300 honorarium.

• • • REPLY, Bender to J. Richard Jones, December 3, 1958: had mislaid Jones’ letter--apology; material for such a paper not “plentiful”, but would be delighted; let Bender know if no one else had been substituted.

• • • REPLY, J. R. Jones to Bender, December 5, 1958: glad Bender would accept....

• • • CONTIGUOUS, J. Richard Jones to Bender, February 18, 1959: details of time and place, invitation to a dinner, etc.

• • • CONTIGUOUS, Bender to Katherine L. Phelps, March 4, 1959 [to Moravian College; Phelps as Director of Publicity]: responding apparently to a communication not extant here; had rushed material for publicity that Jones had not requested; neither had Jones asked for a manuscript in advance, and Bender had not intended to have it ready much before the symposium; hoped Jones’ illness was not lasting.

• • • REPLY, Kathryn Lane Phelps to Bender, March 9, 1959: thanks for responding quickly “to my telephone request of March 3; sending a release about the symposium; still wished a copy of his manuscript as soon as possible.

• • • CONTIGUOUS, Bender to Katherine L. Phelps, March 11, 1959: Bender’s travel plan; one or two other Mennonites would be with him and they hoped for a bit of time in your archives....

{48} John H. Mosemann to Bender, July 6, 1962 [John H. Mosemann Jr.; Bender at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago]: had planned to return to Chicago and visit you this week, but learned that Paul Mininger and Elizabeth [Elizabeth Bender, Elizabeth Horsch Bender] were visiting...; glad to be able to announce on Sunday [Mosemann being pastor of College Mennonite Church on the Goshen College campus] that you anticipate returning home on Monday; more, appropriate remarks in view of Bender’s illness.

{49} Memorandum, Orpah B. Mosemann to Bender, August 22, 1958: ask that a Seminary faculty member give the 3 usual lectures on Christian discipleship (named dates) to senior nursing students’ Professional Adjustments class.

{50} Bender to J. R. Mumaw, January 24, 1961 [John R. Mumaw, President of EMC {Eastern Mennonite College; later EMU, Eastern Mennonite University}]: expected to fly to Washington D.C. and arrive at Harrisonburg by bus at 12:15 a.m. January 31; would like material showing when and where his lectures fit into the Ministers Week program.

{51} Bender to John R. Mumaw, April 24, 1961 [J. R. Mumaw, President of EMC {Eastern Mennonite College; later EMU, Eastern Mennonite University}]: reference to recent conversations, at EMC and at Smithville [likely Smithville Ohio]; would carefully consider your written remarks about Chapter I of Bender’s [manuscript?] “The People of God”; that Bender had not intended to give a deliberate critique of premillenialism, but had to admit exclusion of dispensationalist viewpoint; comment on other points of Mumaw...--e.g., “I have tried to set forth vigorously the newness of the Church as over against the Old covenant, but appreciate your prodding on this point”...; (more ...).

{52} TWO entries

Stanford Mumaw to Bender, October 7, 1959 [stationery of Christian Schools, Incorporated, Dalton Ohio]: “We” were planning a groudbreaking ceremony of “our Christian School building” in early November...; what would Bender think of a Sunday afternoon event? Were thinking of Bender having part on the program--possible on certain dates? anticipating seeing Bender at meeting of Mennonite Board of Education at Hesston.

• • • REPLY, Bender to Stanford Mumaw, October 16, 1959: appreciated the invitation but doubted he should take time to do it; would be more interested in the dedication ceremony.

{53} Bender to Professor Dr. L. v. Muralt, December 14, 1960 [to Zollikan Switzerland]: in the last number of the Zwingliina had seen Mr. Stoedtke’s excellent review of Heinold Fast’s book on Bullinger and the Anabaptists [see Heinrich Bullinger und die Ta*ufer: ein Beitrag zur Historiographie und Theologie im 16. Jahrhundert, by Heinold Fast (Weierhof in the Palatinate, 1959), in the series Mennonitischer Geschichtsverein, Weierhof, Germany]; asked to publish an English translation of the review in Mennonite Quarterly Review.// was any review of Bender’s own Conrad Grebel book in prospect? [see Harold S. Bender, Conrad Grebel, c. 1498-1526: The Founder of the Swiss Brethren Sometimes Called Anabaptists (Mennonite Historical Society, 1950, 326 pp.)].

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