Item 49 - Paul Erb <-->H. S. Bender

Paul Erb to H. S. Bender, May 15, 1961 [stationery of Mennonite Publishing House, Erb the Book Editor]: thanks for the certifications // Re your “This Is My Body” manuscript––Erb advised some rather substantially different approach to discussing amillennialist “or nondispensational emphasis”; comment that Elizabeth [Elizabeth Bender, Elizabeth Horsch Bender’s treatment of Old Testament circumcision was rather like that of advocates of infant baptism; Erb encouraged in general that Bender write to appeal to others than only Mennonites; more.... • • • REPLY, H. S. Bender to Paul Erb, May 19, 1961 [Erb as Editor of Gospel Herald]: re that history of Mennonite education, Bender did not recall expressing interest in doing it; Bender had appointed J C Wenger [John C Wenger] and Melvin Gingerich to work with the [MC] Mennonite General Conference’s Historical and Research Committee on the anniversary; those two and H. S. Bender had met with J J Hostetler [Jonathan J Hostetler] about this, and C Norman Kraus’s name had surfaced, and Bender was favorable.