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Handbook of All Denominations; Containing an Account of Their Origin and History; A Statement of Their Faith and Usages; Together with the Latest Stat - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... also chosen from the congregation in the same manner. In the absence of the minister the deacon takes charge of public meetings. The Mennonites now number throughout the world about 250,000, of which 60,000 are in Holland, 18,000 in Germany, a few in Switzerland and France, 70,000 in Russia, 20,000 in Canada, and a total of 57,337 (1911) in the United States, the number in this country being distributed among twelve branches. Pennsylvania, where Mennonite immigrants first settled in 1683, is still the State of their greatest strength, and here they retain their early language, known as "Pennsylvania Dutch." Mennonites are numerous also in the States of Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, and Illinois. METHODISTS. "it was just at the time," to use the words of the founder of Methodism, "when we wanted but little of filling up the measure of iniquity that two or three clergymen of the Church of England began vehemently to call sinners to repentance." There were sinners enough, if the universal testimony of the literature bearing on the period is true. Infidelity, vice, drunkenness, licentiousness, grossness, extravagance, corruption are some of the terms used to characterize the morals of what called itself the best society of England during the first half of the eighteenth century. At the opposite social extreme the masses had sunk into degradation and hopelessness bordering on heathenism. The criminal classes, increasing in numbers and boldness, terrorized the population, notwithstanding the extreme harshness of the laws. Powerless in the face of such conditions, the Established Church was itself in need of rescue. Its theology was "cold and colorless," its clergy for the most part "ignorant, indolent, and unspiritual, preaching not good news, but...
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