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A TIME TO BE BORN The Anabaptists sprang up in Europe during the early sixteenth century out of the Lutheran and Zwing- lian revolutions. As left-wing children of the Reformation, they pro- posed a complete return to New Testament Christianity and believed the Bible taught baptism based on new birth, a life of earnest Christian discipleship, and a uni- fied brotherhood of believers. The group had its rallying point in Zurich, Switzer- land, in 1525. During the following years of misunder- standing, opposition, and persecution, it not only sur- vived but spread the new doctrines to thousands in Switzerland and Germany. Menno Simons united with the Anabaptists in 1536. His outstanding leadership and the influence of his writ- ings gave the group a name—Mennonite. y ff sl Y}' (ut I M Opposite: Zurich, Switzerland The artist of Martyr’s Mirror portrays the burning of thirty-seven believers at Antwerp.
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OUR FOREFATHERS SECURED A LAND OF ABUNDANT HARVESTS During the eighteenth century, many Mennonites im- migrated to America to escape persecution and to gain greater economic opportunities. Some of these colonists landed at Philadelphia and followed an old Indian trail lined with laurel bushes to an elevated spot between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. They named the place Germantown in honor of their homeland. Early church worship services were conducted ‘ : ; with the German Bible, Martyr’s Mirror, and Here in Pennsylvania the enduring pioneers tamed the Ausbund. land into fertile farms, opened roads, erected large, sturdy stone houses, and gathered their abundant harvests of grain in peace. At Germantown colonists founded the first American Mennonite church,
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