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Mennonite   Listen
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Mennonite, Mennonist  n.  (Eccl. Hist.) One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.






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"Mennonite" Quotes from Famous Books



... organizations in imitation, Protestants, as above stated, have transferred the same principle and make the same blasphemous claim of a right to make disciplines to govern God's people, and then name their sect machinery a church of God. The name may be Methodist, Baptist, Mennonite, Episcopalian, or what not, it is only a beast name, yet a name that you must accept if you desire ...
— The Revelation Explained • F. Smith

... springs, was a great improvement on their last vehicle. They came the first day as for as Konski, where they passed the night, sleeping in the carriage, the air being very mild the night through. In the afternoon they arrived at another Mennonite colony, Schoenweise, where they had a short interview with Pastor Obermanz and a few of his flock. These people produce a small quantity of silk. The travellers were now on the Steppes; they found them very thinly peopled, so that all the country out of sight of the villages appeared like a ...
— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley

... bundles from below, to an old man of sixty, who wore a fringe of grey beard, like a Mennonite. ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... was a sweet-faced, frail little woman, a member of the Mennonite Church. She wore the plain garb adopted by the women of that sect—the tight-fitting waist covered by a pointed shoulder cape, the full skirt and the white cap upon smoothly combed, parted hair. Her red-haired children were so like their father had been, that at times her heart contracted ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers



Words linked to "Mennonite" :   Mennonite Church, Anabaptist, Amish



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