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Kay Berger to Bender

A Kay Berger writing from Los Angeles in 1930 gave a long description of attending a Billy Sunday meeting at "the Bible Institute" [BIOLA?] and of liking the event very much, including the "fluent" sermon on atonement

Berger, Kay

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.)

Fretz to Bender, 1928-1930

Letters are about local or regional history matters, and in 1929-1930 about what apparently was evidently about credit he was earning from Goshen College for historical study by correspondence.

Bender to “Heart of Europe” tourists, November 7, 1929

Bender to “Heart of Europe” tourists, November 7, 1929 [typed letterhead of Goshen College]: pleasurable recall of the tour [dates not given], they having traveled on the “Canadian Pacific ‘Empress of Australia”...; mention of Paul Erb as in the tour party; letter looks back to the tourists’ eight weeks in Europe [June-August, 1929], albeit saying almost nothing of the tourists’ travels; letter gives details of Bender and a “Doctor Miller” [S. T. Miller, according to Keim] going to the Soviet Union [USSR; Russia] immediately after the group’s leaving on August 3; places mentioned--Luxembourg, Trier, Munich, Hellmansberg, Nuernberg [Nüremberg]. Rothenburg, Lautenbach, Berlin, Danzig, Koenigsberg [Königsberg], Moscow (three days), Leningrad, Helsingfors in Finland, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Cherbourg, New York; mention of visiting the historic Mennonite church in Danzig; Bender’s account of time and treatment in the Soviet Union mildly positive, certainly not harsh (e.g. ... “conditions ,,, much more stable than the average person relaizes [sic]”, and (after attending Greek Orthodox services in Leningrad) , continuing that they saw “more religious freedom than mnay [sic] suppose” and that “church services are absolutely free, and even protestant theological schools are allowed...”: on settling accounts with “the U. S. Lines office in Chicago” [having traveled on the S. S. George Washington; sending refunds of $5 each and had a general overage of $38 which Bender proposed to give to the Mennonite Historical Library; that in Munich he had “bought a number of rare and valuable books”....

Hershberger, February 4, 1925

February 4, 1925, Hershberger asking for materials [surely for his Master's thesis--see book War, Peace, and Social Conscience, by Theron F. Schlabach] not available "at Iowa."

T. F. Johnson to B. H. Unruh

Shipping rates to transport the refugees from Harbin. Total costs, terms of payments and installments and an extract from the report of the work of the meeting of October 27. [extract in French].

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