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Relationships of the Brethren with the Mennonites and Quakers, 1708–1865

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Donald F. Durnbaugh
Donald F. Durnbaugh
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Associate Professor of Church History, Bethany Theological Seminary
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More than seventy-five years ago, Ludwig Keller (1849–1915), German archivist and historian, wrote to the young Mennonite immigrant to the United States, John Horsch (1867–1941), to propose that

just as in the “Evangelical Alliance” Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, etc., meet from time to time, the Mennonites of the various branches could join with the Quakers, Schwenkfelders, … Dunkers, several branches of the General Baptists, the Hutterian Brethren, several wings of the Presbyterians, etc., in brief all the parties that grew out of old Anabaptism, in an “Old-Evangelical Alliance” [Alt-evangelischen Bunde].

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Church History , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 1966 , pp. 35 - 59
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1966

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1. Bender, Elizabeth Horsch, ed., “The Letters of Ludwig Keller to John Horsch,” The Mennonite Quarterly Review, XXI (1947), 3:202Google Scholar, hereafter cited as “M.Q.R.”

2. E. Bender, 189–190.

3. J. H. Kurtz, whose church history was at one time highly regarded, wrote of Keller:

It is Keller's achievement to have brought out into the forefront of scholarly consideration the great significance of Anabaptism in the history of the Christian spirit in the sixteenth century, and to have called emphatic attention to the rich religious literature and remarkable organizational activity of the Anabaptists as well as the primitive Christian elements in the movement. Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte (14th ed. 1906, V, 55)Google Scholar, quoted in Neff, Chirstian, “Ludwig Keller,” The Mennonite Encyclopedia, III, 162–163Google Scholar, hereafter cited as “M. E.” The current renewal of interest in the relevance of Anabaptism as a major Reformation movement in its own right with immediate implications for the present — “the recovery of the Anabaptist vision”—flows in a kind of “apostolic succession” from Keller to Horsch to Bender to the current generation of Mennonite scholars.

The decisive influence on Horsch's interest in Mennonite history was the archivist and historian Ludwig Keller with whom he continued in close touch for ten years (1885–1895), even after his emigration to America, and who directly influenced him to dedicate his life to a revival of the ancient Anabaptist principles in the Mennonite brotherhood.

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9. Origins, p. 216. There was also an earlier Dompelaar movement in Hamburg-Altona with which the Brethren had connections; see “Dompelaars,” M.E., II, 81–82.Google Scholar

10. Translations of the original documents are found in Origins, pp. 217–240; a narrative account is in Durnbaugh, , “Brethren Beginnings,” pp. 115–123Google Scholar. See also Müller, Ernst, Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer (Frauenfeld: J. Huber, 1895), pp. 226–232.Google Scholar

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16. For fuller treatment of this point, see Durnbaugh, , “The Genius of the Brethren,” pp. 24–27.Google Scholar

17. Eberhard Ludwig Grubers Grundforschende Fragen, welche denen Neuen Täuffern, im Witgensteinischen, in sonderheit zu beantworten, vorgelegt waren. Nebst beygefügten Kurzen und cinfältigen Antworten auf diesclben… ([n.p.]: 1713); the latest translation is found in Origins, pp. 325–344. The quotations used above are found on pages 340 and 342–343.

18. Geistliche Fama, mittheilend einige neuere Nachrichten von Göttlichen Erweckungen, Wegen, Führungen, und Gerichten, ed. J. S. Carl and others (Berleburg: 1730–1744), I, 10: 86–89Google Scholar; Origins, pp. 300–301.

19. The basic works on the early history of the Church of the Brethren in America are: Brumbaugh, Martin G., A History of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America (Elgin, III.: Brethren Publishing House, 1899)Google Scholar; Sachse, Julius F., The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: The author, 1899–1900), 2 volsGoogle Scholar., which must, however, be used with caution. There is a list of pamphlets which influenced German Migration in Meynen's, EmilBibliography on German Settlements in Colonial North America (Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1937), pp. 23–28.Google Scholar

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26. Durnbaugh, Donald F. and Shultz, Lawrence W., “A Brethren Bibliography, 1713–1963: Two Hundred Fifty Years of Brethren Literature,” B.L.T., IX (1964), 1–2: 13Google Scholar; Evans, 5957; Seidensticker, Oswald, The First Century of German Printing in America, 1728–1830 (Philadelphia: Schaefer and Koradi, 1893), p. 28Google Scholar; hereafter cited as “Seidensticker.” For a discussion of the treatise, sec Eller, Vernard, “Friends, Brethren, Separatists,” B.L.T., VII (1962), 4: 47–56.Google Scholar

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28. On the Germantown Academy, see Travis, Wm., History of the Germantown Academy (Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros., 1882)Google Scholar. Leatherman, Quintus, “Christopher Dock, Mennonite Schoolmaster, 1718–1771,” M.Q.R., XVI (1942), 1: 32–44Google Scholar. The editions of Dock's treatise are noted in Scidensticker, p. 81.

29. Evans, 5703, 6256; Seidensticker, pp. 25, 30; Funkc, Anneliese Marckwald, “Ephrata: The Printing Press of the Brotherhood,” in The Ephrata Cloisters: An Annotated Bibliography, comps. Doll, E. E. and Funke, A. M. (Philadelphia: Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, 1944), pp. 89, 93–94Google Scholar; Bender, pp. 2–3. Irouically, those copies of theMartyrs' Mirror still on hand at the time of the Revolutionary War were seized by the American forces over the protests of the pacifist Ephrata Brethren, and used for wadding in cartridges. This occurrence is mentioned, although in garbled fashion, in Jameson, J. Franklin, The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement (Boston: Beacon Press, 1956), pp. 57–58Google Scholar. The incident is described in the Community's chronicle, Lamech, and Agrippa [pseud.], , eds., Chronicon Ephratense; A History of the Community of Seventh Day Baptists, trans. Hark, J. Max (Lancaster, Pa.: S. H. Zahm, 1889), pp. 209–210, 213–214.Google Scholar

30. See Bender, Wilbur J., “Pacifism among the Mennonites, Amish Mennonites, and Schwenkfelders of Pennsylvania to 1783” M.Q.R., I (1927), 3:23–40Google Scholar: “Besides the Mennonites and Amish there were several other groups in Pennsylvania with similar ideals, mostly of German blood. The Moravian Brethren were generally pacifist. The Tunkers (Dunkards) believed almost exactly as the Mennonites on war and the state and, being small in numbers, before the Revolution, identified themselves with the Mennonites in most of their public actions.” (p.25).

31. Jones, Rufus M., The Quakers in the American Colonies (New York: Russell and Russell, 1962), p. 486.Google Scholar

32. Quoted in Rothermund, Dietmar, The Layman's Progress: Religious and Political Experience in Colonial Pennsylvania, 1740–1770 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), pp. 164–165CrossRefGoogle Scholar; hereafter cited as “Rothermund.”

33. Tappert, Theodore G. and Doberstein, John W., eds., The Notebook of a Colonial Clergyman (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1959), pp. 30, 114–115Google Scholar. See also Steckel, William R., “Pietist in Colonial Pennsylvania: Christopher Sauer, Printer” (unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University 1949).Google Scholar

34. The title of the pamphlet written by Smith reveals his aim: A Brief State of the Province of Pennsylvania, in which the Conduct of their Assemblies for several Years past is impartially examined, and the True Cause of the continual Encroachments of the French displayed, more especially the secret Design of their late unwarrantable Invasion and Settlement up the river Ohio. To which is annexed, An easy Plan for restoring Quiet in the public Measure of the Province, and defeating the ambitious Views of the French in time to come (2nd ed., London: R. Griffiths 1755), p. 26. This began a hot interchange, eulminating in Smith's arrest by the Assembly.

35. See Gegenheimer, Albert F., William Smith: Educator and Churchman, 1727–1803 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1943), pp. 124–156.Google Scholar

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37. Regeln und Articuls zu besserer Regierung und Auführung Ihro Majestät Garden zu Pferde und zu Fusze… Auf Ihro Majestät Befehl öffentlich herausgegeben und auf Veranstaltung der General Trustees, so zur Aufrichtung englisher Schulen unter den Teutschen in Pennsylvanien verordnet sind, zum Besten der unter Ihrer Majestät regulären und Provinzialen Truppen in Nord Amerika stehenden Teutschen aus dem Englischen ins Teutsche übersetst (Philadelphia: Gedruckt von B. Fränklin und A. Armbruster, 1757). Seidensticker remarked that it “seems strange that the trustees…should use their trust funds for Printing Rules and Articles of War. But the Society,, while professedly charitable and religious, had also political aims… (p. 49). The quotation from Sauer is from a letter in the Abraham Harley Cassel Collection, Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa., published in English translation in Rothermund, pp. 171–172.

38. Richard Hockley to Thomas Penn, November 1, 1742, quoted in Rothermund, p. 73.

39. A Brief State, p. 26.

40. Samuel Purviance to Colonel James Burd, September 20, 1765, quoted in Rothermund, pp. 187–188.

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44. The best analysis of this problem, based on extensive archival research, is that of James, Sydney V., A People Among Peoples: Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963), pp. 142–157CrossRefGoogle Scholar. James points out that Quaker influence came back in a side door through the “Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures.” In the spring of 1757, they were active in enlisting the German pacifists to their program of peaceful approaches to the Indians. See also, Davidson, Robert L. D., War comes to Quaker Pennsylvania, 1682–1756 (New York: Temple University Publications, 1957).Google Scholar

45. The split was still obvious in the Revolutionary War period when open advocates of legitimate wars of defense were to be heard. The Free Quaker schism is a case in point. Rufus Jones, however, tells the anecdote of the Friend who stood up at Yearly Meeting to support the position enunciated along this line by James Logan, who was plucked down by his coat tail with the remark “Sit thee down, Robert, thou art single in the matter.” Typologists of pacifism might consider this a case of semi-violent direct action. Sums, up Jones, “the political Quaker was dying hard, and was never beyound hope of resurrection” (p. 556).Google Scholar

46. Bainton, p. 152.

47. In the contemporary accounts, Sauer refers to himself as a Separatist and is so referred to by others. His closest smpathies were with the Church of the Brethren, but he did not actually become a member.

48. Samuel Purviance to Colonel James Burd, September. 20, 1765: The little hopes of success as well as the difficulty of engaging proper persons for the purpose, has discouraged me from attempting a project recommended by some friends, of sending some Germans to work upon their Countrymen—but that no probable means may fail, have sent up some copies of a piece lately printed by Sowers of Germantown to be dispersed and which may possibly have some effect…(Rothermund, p. 187), The pamphlet was Wertheste LandesLeute, Sonderlich in Philadelphia Bucks and Berks-Caunty: (Germantown: 1765), listed in “A Brethren Bibliography,” 23.Google Scholar

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