Mennonites in the World War: Non-Resistance Under Test. Jonas Smucker Hartzler

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4064066438371

Table of Contents

       EARLY HISTORY OF THE CHURCH

       Beginnings

       Heresies

       Church and State

       Developments of the Papacy

       Persecutions from within

       Peter Waldo, the Waldenses and Kindred Sects

       Reformers and Nonresistance

       Menno Simons

       Menno and Nonresistance

       His Work and Death

       Menno's Followers

       From Germany to Russia

       Militarism and Emigration

       MENNONITES AND OTHER WARS

       Growth of Militarism in Europe

       Effect of Military Training

       Russia Rescinding her Promise

       European Trend and Nonresistance

       Nonresistance Affects Actions

       Ancient and Modern Councils of Defense

       Mennonites and Tories

       Some Trials

       Fines, War taxes, Oath of Allegiance

       Finances and Mennonites

       Emigration to Canada

       Lesser Wars of America

       The Civil War

       Pre-War Military Laws

       Christian Good

       The Second Call for Men

       The Shenandoah Valley; Sheridan's Raid

       Lincoln's Call for Men

       Testing the Draftee

       The Poor Draftee's Fine

       Contrasted Effects of Exemption

       THE WORLD WAR

       The Seeming Cause

       Underlying Causes

       The United States Drawn in

       War Declared Preparation

       Position of the Church

       Nonresistants Position True and False

       Position Towards Government

       The Load of Militarism

       Another Reason for Opposing War

       Orchard and Holmes on War

       THE ISSUES INVOLVED

       Nonresistance the Only Issue

       IMPORTANT MEETINGS AND THEIR RESULTS

       Meeting at Kitchener

       OUR BRETHREN IN CANADA

       Difference between