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- of the belief system to which one is converted and, furthermore, upon the personality characteristics of the convert. Conversion can be described as intellectual17 KB (2,721 words) - 14:18, 31 December 2018
- the French for a short period, who attempted to catholicize the town. To convert the Mennonites they sent Dr. Formantijn from Paris; but van Voorst’s superior4 KB (613 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- he was beheaded on 7 August 1587 after a vain attempt by the Jesuits to convert him (Die Lieder der Hutlerischen Brűder, 785). The first settlement of Jesuits7 KB (971 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- Catholic Church. In 1563 the Catholic priest Georg Cassander was assigned to convert to Catholicism the Anabaptist teacher Johannes Campanus, who had for years13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:37, 20 July 2021
- called "Lug ins Land." Osiander and other theologians tried in vain to convert him. In 1536 the council had a whole Bible brought to him with Melanchthon's15 KB (2,514 words) - 00:54, 16 January 2017
- rulers. But he did not yield, and sent the pastor Raidt to Mühlhausen to convert the Anabaptists imprisoned there; Raidt was surprisingly successful in persuading24 KB (3,956 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- records would be appropriate if Ammann had been a convert from the Reformed Church to Anabaptism. As a new convert Ammann might have become more committed to7 KB (1,152 words) - 21:30, 29 October 2019
- Strasbourg, Alsace. Among them baptism was performed as a sign that the adult convert was forsaking the world, the flesh, and the devil, and entering into a covenant4 KB (521 words) - 23:26, 15 January 2017
- Hearings took place at Imst in 1538, to which Dr. Gallus Müller was sent to convert the accused. But Müller's efforts were in vain. There Sebastian Hubmaier6 KB (1,001 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- of Eisenach, and who persisted in their faith in spite of all efforts to convert them. They were Hans Köhler of Eyerode and Hans Scheffer of Hastungsfelde9 KB (1,348 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
- and after repeated cross-examination, cruel torture, and vain attempts to convert him was beheaded on 5 March 1558, at the age of 25 years (not 5 May as stated7 KB (1,047 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- (1740-1780) allowed the otherwise forbidden Jesuits to exert all means to convert non-Catholics back to the Roman Church. And what torture, dungeon, and executioners126 KB (6,564 words) - 00:19, 5 August 2023
- had concentrated sufficiently in this area in 1874 to buy a tavern and convert it into a meetinghouse. Church activities outgrew this building by 18832 KB (354 words) - 16:38, 20 September 2014
- Dionysius Vinne, traveled from Münster to Osnabrück in October 1534 in order to convert this town. They were all arrested before they could begin their work; four757 bytes (182 words) - 15:48, 20 January 2014
- cross-examined two days later. The attempts made by Dr. Gallus Müller to convert him were fruitless. Even if he had recanted, his tragic fate would not have22 KB (3,489 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- given two or three hours for reflection; then new attempts were made to convert them, with the result that three prisoners recanted, while Christoph Ortlep6 KB (959 words) - 00:27, 16 January 2017
- Anabaptists in his country. But he continued his practice of trying to convert them by conversations with clergymen. Leonard Dax, a Hutterite missioner45 KB (5,948 words) - 12:32, 15 May 2019
- the heretics. This reputation induced Philip of Hesse to summon him to convert the Anabaptists imprisoned in Marburg. But before this Bucer still had to36 KB (5,619 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
- (4) the water of baptism does not save. The greatest efforts were made to convert him. "Even the prince had pity upon him and is said to have most urgently1 KB (313 words) - 19:03, 20 August 2013
- Hans Gurtzham. A deacon and the parson of Villach put forth much effort to convert them, but were worsted by the superior Biblical knowledge of the defendants7 KB (1,201 words) - 00:24, 16 January 2017
- Innsbruck and imprisoned in the Krauter tower. He refused all attempts to convert him, and died at the stake on 2 June 1529 at Innsbruck. The authorities2 KB (381 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- repeatedly, and Dax defended his faith with skill, resisting all attempts to convert him to the Reformed faith. He boldly voiced his opposition to the use of3 KB (528 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- missions first found expression in 1876, when Christian Hope, a Danish convert in this country, returned to his homeland to share his new-found faith with17 KB (2,603 words) - 06:15, 6 October 2016
- convinced of the truth of their faith, that all attempts of the clergy to convert them failed and threats of punishment did not move them. The expectation5 KB (867 words) - 07:26, 16 January 2017
- commissioned in September 1764 by Maria Theresa, Queen of Austria-Hungary, to convert the Anabaptists (Hutterites) living at Alwinz in the Hungarian province2 KB (296 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- and were attended by great crowds. His first difficult assignment was to convert Jakob Hutter, who had just been brought to prison. Müller no doubt did all8 KB (1,315 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- inflicted the death penalty in spiritual matters, but first undertook to convert the heretics. Sometimes they held formal disputations; theologians from3 KB (551 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- Sterzing. Wearied by his long imprisonment and the continued attempts to convert him, he escaped from the tower. "God helped' him out," say the Hutterite10 KB (1,701 words) - 22:38, 13 June 2017
- Reformed church council of the Palatinate had ceremonious attempts made to convert four Anabaptists at Bretten. Summoning all his scholarship, the Reformed7 KB (1,066 words) - 07:26, 16 January 2017
- entered into the meetinghouse during services in order to address and "to convert" the Mennonites; they repeatedly held debates with the noted Mennonite leader8 KB (1,052 words) - 21:08, 13 October 2014
- evangelists summarily thrown into prison and under this pressure tried to convert them. The charge that the government was persecuting the Anabaptists without7 KB (1,039 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- opponent of the Anabaptists he brought it about that an attempt was made to convert Erbe. To this end Erbe was taken to the monastery in Eisenach and kept there3 KB (614 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- Emperor Charles VI authorized the creation of a special Jesuit mission to convert them to the Roman Catholic faith. Such a mission, composed of Johan Milan9 KB (1,402 words) - 20:50, 26 November 2013
- be converted by teaching and instruction rather than punished with the sword. Summoned by the Duke of Cleve, Cassander went to Duisburg to convert the4 KB (530 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
- expressly promised in the Edict was prohibited. All means were used to convert the Protestants. The most terrible of these was the compulsory quartering7 KB (1,166 words) - 00:35, 16 January 2017
- district had been formed as the result of the work of a young Canadian convert, Peter Cober, and Daniel Brenneman. Other early workers were Samuel Shirk1 KB (254 words) - 15:58, 27 July 2014
- went to Strasbourg (Cornelius, II, 274). Here the reformers tried again to convert him. He left the city, but returned in August, and was seized on 22 October10 KB (1,595 words) - 23:23, 15 January 2017
- imperial mandates solemnly read in the churches, an effort was still made to convert the Anabaptists by having preachers and university professors debate with32 KB (4,637 words) - 16:12, 6 April 2020
- missionary. In 1884 J. J. Kliewer succeeded S. S. Haury and in 1888 the first convert was baptized. In 1896, because the Indigenous were moving away and the children3 KB (445 words) - 18:14, 26 January 2023
- Noah Mack was the superintendent of the mission until 1910. The first convert was baptized in 1917, but a permanent congregation was not established until7 KB (842 words) - 19:17, 8 August 2023
- Anabaptists some pious souls, whom Blaurer could, with his gentleness, convert. But most of them, Blaurer says, were maliciously intent upon re-establishing8 KB (1,169 words) - 23:18, 15 January 2017
- Allendorf, were sent to Wolkersdorf by Philipp of Hesse in August 1538 to convert the prisoners, Georg Schnabel was already at home with his family. But they3 KB (443 words) - 18:58, 20 August 2013
- consolidated her empire, she gave special orders to Jesuit missionaries to convert the Anabaptists still extant in her realm. We read in the Geschicht-Buch15 KB (2,293 words) - 07:30, 16 January 2017
- The preachers of the city, Rhegius, Frosch, Agricola and Keller, were to convert them. On 21 and 25 September 1527 they disputed for hours with the prisoners25 KB (3,662 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- were obviously amazed. Two learned clergymen came expressly from Munich to convert him, but it was to no avail. Their rational theology was one thing, his7 KB (1,105 words) - 08:41, 19 December 2014
- Anabaptist menace in London and Kent. Cranmer was active, however, in seeking to convert Anabaptists by methods of persuasion. In April 1549 he and other church47 KB (7,073 words) - 15:06, 29 March 2021
- necessary examine them about their fellow members and leaders, and try to convert them. All children should be baptized early. Those who refused to have theirs51 KB (7,917 words) - 23:58, 15 January 2017
- the Lower Austrian Landmarschall, Hans Wilhelm, Baron of Rogendorf, to convert the brothers Marx and Bernhard Klampferer, but to no avail. In the 1580s5 KB (833 words) - 00:33, 16 January 2017
- Glaser and taken to Imst. Dr. Gall (see Gallus Müller) was sent to Imst to convert them, but his trouble was in vain. The confession made by Grünfelder reveals4 KB (593 words) - 00:28, 16 January 2017
- were not producing the desired results, and that more could be done to convert the Anabaptists by persuasion. In Dr. Gallus Müller, court preacher in Innsbruck9 KB (1,435 words) - 07:31, 16 January 2017
- after a marriage of two years, and urged her to be steadfast. He tried to convert his fellow prisoners by proclaiming God's Word to them. While he was being6 KB (1,041 words) - 00:01, 16 January 2017
- Bishop Heinrich von Ackon decided to have various scholars attempt to convert them. They had partial success. Two mothers of newborn babies agreed to4 KB (756 words) - 07:29, 16 January 2017
- insurrectionists and violators of electoral commands, and after another attempt to convert them, were banished. The protocol was published three months after the disputation12 KB (1,826 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- mission also ended in failure. Once more Fabricius was used by Philipp to convert imprisoned Anabaptists. In August 1538, when he was pastor at Allendorf4 KB (572 words) - 03:09, 12 April 2014
- church. He probably died in prison, since Peter Tesch had tried in vain to convert him. All of Rinck's writings but three have been lost. One of these is an11 KB (1,791 words) - 16:44, 16 May 2022
- castle. He was again cross-examined. A priest was summoned from Bregenz to convert him, and hoped to gain honor and fame by this colloquy. But when he was3 KB (544 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- criminals, they zealously confessed their faith and defied all attempts to convert them; nor did they change their view after nearly a year of imprisonment2 KB (427 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- Church) came to birth in July 1904 with the baptism of P. A. Penner's first convert, Sirkanti Bai, a patient suffering from Hansen's Disease (leprosy). She6 KB (979 words) - 15:11, 27 July 2014
- arrival Musculus and his colleague Bonifacius Wolfhart began his attempts to convert them. Jakob Daschser, who had been in prison since 28 August 1527, and had4 KB (631 words) - 23:28, 15 January 2017
- Anabaptists teach is wicked, yet we must use caution and use every means to convert them before we reach for the sword." And the chaplain Melander said, "The54 KB (8,867 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- this last extremity, and do not hold this evil deed to their account, but convert them; for they know not what they do." He was a native of Kortrijk, living2 KB (361 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- some willow thickets into pasture. With pick and hoe it would be easier to convert them than with the Bible. Their imprisonment continued. The Urach Pfarrelationen3 KB (486 words) - 00:33, 16 January 2017
- directions by the Innsbruck government to have competent and pious priests convert them, and to report the names of those who recanted and deliver the obstinate5 KB (837 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- former he preached seven successive sermons in 1556; the latter he tried to convert through church inspections. According to his statement, five councilmen5 KB (860 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
- Boyars. However, his father refused to send his son to Moscow and have him convert to the Orthodox faith. Instead, Sigismund proposed that Wladyslaw reign4 KB (698 words) - 18:12, 16 November 2016
- Anabaptists who had been taken prisoner, in order to convert them, but Corvinus did not succeed in "converting those stubborn Widertouffer." Corvinus wrote much2 KB (390 words) - 03:01, 12 April 2014
- courthouse in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. All attempts to convert them having failed, they were sentenced to die by drowning. On the way to3 KB (495 words) - 23:27, 15 January 2017
- baptism from him. Uolimann had met Grebel in Schaffhausen and become a convert; he did not want to have the customary basin of water poured over him, "but16 KB (2,526 words) - 07:58, 29 October 2013
- money. They made a confession of their faith. The priests tried in vain to "convert" them. The prisoners were finally told that they would be tolerated if they3 KB (505 words) - 06:59, 16 January 2017
- definite experience. This was expressed in general or special meetings by the convert rising to his feet sometimes during the sermon and asking the church for24 KB (2,911 words) - 12:42, 21 March 2024
- the Mennonite population was evacuated westward. The meetinghouse was converted into a cinema. Dormann, E. and H. Eckerdt. Geschichte des Kreises Marienburg3 KB (499 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- should be permitted to attend the meetings of the sectarians in order to convert them. Marnix van St. Aldegonde even favored capital punishment for them7 KB (1,176 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- council favored expulsion, and the clergy undertook public attempts to convert them. A confession of faith discovered in the search of a house was sent8 KB (1,308 words) - 19:14, 29 April 2020
- Müller, noted for his success in leading prisoners to recant, took pains to convert Glaser and his fellow prisoners, Hans Grünfelder and the aged Oswald, he5 KB (719 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- sent a letter to the Speyer council, requesting them to receive the two to convert the Anabaptists at Speyer. MLA style Neff, Christian. "Eysenburg, Johann811 bytes (191 words) - 19:12, 20 August 2013
- Abraham and Anna Ratzlaff, and Gerhard and Katharina Giesbrecht. The first convert, Sepe Thama (i.e., a son), was baptized after ten years of work. In 19513 KB (460 words) - 16:55, 26 January 2023
- Cleve called the noted Catholic scholar George Cassander to Duisburg to convert the Anabaptists there. There may have been some continuing traces of Anabaptism3 KB (445 words) - 16:57, 12 April 2014
- Korrespondenz mit den Graubündnern II, 33). On the other hand, his attempts to convert an imprisoned Anabaptist failed (see Grisons). He died 5 September 15661 KB (218 words) - 14:32, 23 August 2013
- that Gentner had not opposed him on this point. Hans Feuerbach, a recent convert, was then sent to Württemberg to summon Gentner and Kramer to Moravia. Gentner4 KB (693 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- had entered the Bruderhof in Sobotište and had made a futile attempt to convert the Hutterian Brethren; now another attempt was made by summoning the leaders7 KB (1,135 words) - 18:55, 28 July 2018
- He rejected the attempts of the Catholic priests and the city council to convert him and was therefore sentenced to death. After two questionings on the2 KB (326 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- Balthasar Raidt, also of Hersfeld, was often engaged by the authorities to convert the Anabaptists; he reported that by 1544 he had dealt with over 300 Anabaptists2 KB (299 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- 1530 Kolb and Kaspar Grossman, in the presence of the Council, tried to convert the Swiss Brethren leader, Konrad Eichacher, by means of Romans 8, but was2 KB (385 words) - 07:31, 16 January 2017
- account of Protestant sympathies. He had been used by the city council to convert the Anabaptists. With the final establishment of the Reformation in the4 KB (604 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
- unrighteous living. The Catholic clergy made repeated sincere efforts to convert him; on the very scaffold he was offered freedom if he would recant only3 KB (455 words) - 07:00, 16 January 2017
- that Menno Simons joined in January 1536. Sicke Freerks was obviously a convert of Melchior Hofmann's, as well as Jan Volkertsz Trypmaker of Hoorn, who5 KB (727 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
- Catholic priest had appeared in the Mennonite church and was trying to convert them; such a crowd gathered before the little church that the meeting had2 KB (364 words) - 00:25, 16 January 2017
- private residences were bought and converted into girls' boarding houses. In 1948 the old school building was converted into a boys' residence and infirmary3 KB (500 words) - 00:52, 16 January 2017
- scorpions. But he defied all force as well as the attempts of the clergy to convert him. He was executed at St. Lorenzen on 5 August 1592. The list of martyrs13 KB (2,094 words) - 23:26, 15 January 2017
- Hohenwittlingen, where he was held prisoner for several decades. After an attempt to convert him in 1608 his tormentors apparently abandoned all hope of his returning4 KB (730 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- contacts both in Germany and Holland with the Anabaptists, trying even to convert them to his way; but this endeavor ended with totally negative results.27 KB (3,835 words) - 14:04, 31 December 2018
- the White Mountain near Prague (8 November 1620), were intent on either converting or expelling them. On 17 September 1622, Emperor Ferdinand II and on 284 KB (617 words) - 17:05, 17 September 2014
- orphanages. As this need diminished, French Mennonites were challenged to convert some of these homes to the care of persons with mental retardation. in 195115 KB (1,975 words) - 13:15, 19 March 2014
- God. After the conclusion of the cross-examination and the attempts to convert them Lober stated that he would not desist from his faith; likewise spoke14 KB (2,408 words) - 23:24, 15 January 2017
- delegates from Styria decided that if they did not respond to efforts to convert them, they should be branded on the forehead and expelled; two delegates4 KB (726 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- difficult for the group. No strong leadership emerged until an earlier convert to the CGC from Lutheran parentage, Fredrick C. Fricke (1867-1947), took66 KB (4,242 words) - 14:54, 23 March 2021
- salvation through repentance and faith, but which ordinarily leaves the new convert less than a fully victorious child of God; and second, the second work of9 KB (1,388 words) - 19:48, 20 August 2013
- pity for her youth and sex, attempts had been made by Dr. Gallus Müller to convert her. Though she was not versed in the Scriptures, she clung to her faith4 KB (645 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- baptism. The authorities, assisted by the clergy, sought fanatically "to convert him," but in vain. Willem remained steadfast. Génard, P. Antwerpsch archievenblad845 bytes (180 words) - 16:02, 18 October 2016
- Francijntgen, and Maeyken Doornaerts. In spite of the special efforts to convert her because of her youth, she remained steadfast to the end. Braght, Thieleman2 KB (283 words) - 17:11, 11 June 2020
- repeatedly cross-examined and terribly tortured. When all these attempts to convert them proved futile, they were beheaded on 19 July 1560. Beck, Josef. Die2 KB (316 words) - 23:24, 15 January 2017
- Eastern Mennonite College in 1960. His replacement, George Elsasser, a convert to the Mennonite faith, was not supportive of symbols of separation from4 KB (453 words) - 10:30, 23 November 2020
- on 17 February 1534. In October he was one of the apostles sent out to convert the world, but a few days after leaving Münster he was arrested at Soest1 KB (233 words) - 09:20, 20 January 2014
- Ontario (CMCO). Some families in the Fort Stewart area knew that Elsasser, a convert to the Mennonite faith, was not supportive of symbols of separation from4 KB (483 words) - 13:45, 17 June 2021
- prison and put on a meager diet. The pastors must from time to time try to convert them and must meanwhile baptize their as yet unbaptized children. Anyone5 KB (899 words) - 23:22, 15 January 2017
- Mennonite conferences. The two conferences had ordained Henry Müller, a mission convert, as a deacon the year before. After Stoltzfus' health declined in 1924,5 KB (536 words) - 12:56, 30 October 2022
- established in India, China, Republic of the Congo, Africa, where through the converts that have been won, indigenous MB churches have sprung up. Through Mennonite67 KB (7,839 words) - 12:44, 23 September 2023
- seized in 1558 with Gotthard of Nonnenberg, and, when all attempts to convert them proved futile, beheaded at Windeck castle. Their brave death made a2 KB (380 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- was among them. Hans Peckh was immovable. The authorities were unable to "convert" him in Passau. The court record reports, "he remained firm." (See also2 KB (341 words) - 00:06, 16 January 2017
- While Sobotište was left in peace, there was no cessation of attempts to convert the Brethren in Trentschin. On 3 March 1676 the three Brethren were again4 KB (674 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- imprisoned in Klausenburg three years. Continued attempts were made to convert him, but to no avail. Waldner repeats some of the conversations between8 KB (1,492 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- drowned there on 9 October 1582. Twenty-four priests had vainly tried to convert the two men. Some of the judges hesitated to pronounce the death sentence3 KB (432 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
- spite of torture he refused to betray his brethren, and all attempts to convert him to the Catholic faith failed. He was sentenced to death for leaving3 KB (430 words) - 23:31, 15 January 2017
- established at Jansen (near Fairbury, Nebraska, USA) in 1880, largely out of converts from the Kleine Gemeinde, which continued until 1930. In the same year16 KB (2,088 words) - 10:53, 29 August 2020
- away. A Jesuit report of 18 September 1763, claims that all attempts to convert Zacharias had failed. But eventually he, too, succumbed to the unbelievable3 KB (442 words) - 23:31, 15 January 2017
- of their homes, and the rising Counter Reformation in Slovakia tried to convert them to Catholicism and to compel them to have their children baptized.3 KB (423 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
- suffering" was instrumental in converting some at Colchester from "papism into true repentance, whereas nothing before could convert them." "For in his death2 KB (386 words) - 15:15, 8 June 2017
- where they remained 15 weeks, while Jesuits from Oettingen vainly tried to convert them. Twice they were asked while on the rack who had sheltered them and3 KB (498 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
- execution, accompanied by a Jesuit and another monk, who were still trying to convert him. At the place of execution they held a crucifix before his eyes and3 KB (515 words) - 17:46, 20 December 2014
- the end of 1529 he was arrested. No fewer than 14 learned men tried to convert him. His relatives, brothers, and sister begged him with tears to renounce3 KB (497 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- Batta (pl. Batak) are a Malay tribe on Sumatra. The first attempt to convert the Batak to Christianity was made by the English Baptists in 1820. Fourteen3 KB (497 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- Marcus Cornelisz and Cop Heyne; the latter had been a Münsterite, but was converted at Amsterdam. Of Münsterite ideas there is no further trace among the Anabaptists17 KB (2,338 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
- province of Utrecht, in 1534; by trade he was a weaver. About 1556 he was converted to the Mennonite principles and soon played a role in the small Amersfoort5 KB (674 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- then taken to Neustadt on the Orla, where Lutheran clergymen endeavored to convert them (Thüringen, 140 and 151), as was reported to Johann Friedrich, Elector3 KB (506 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- Janzen, Sarah Kroeker, and Walter Scott Herr. In January 1915 the first two converts of the Congo Inland Mission were baptized at Djoka Punda and the first6 KB (828 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2021
- of the monks." And then he goes on musing, "I often said if I could only convert these Anabaptists, so that our coreligionists could learn their way of life5 KB (828 words) - 14:35, 23 August 2013
- baptize all infants according to Catholic rites; committees were sent out to convert the Anabaptists. With some they succeeded; most of them accepted the Catholic5 KB (884 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- to recant in Schleitheim. At first the authorities hoped to be able to convert the Anabaptists back to the Reformed Church, and had the pastor conduct11 KB (1,723 words) - 06:58, 16 January 2017
- men in training camps to allow time for conscientious objectors to be converted to the military crusade. Although reliable figures are unavailable, it13 KB (1,952 words) - 14:37, 28 March 2017
- with the prisoners from 30 October to 1 November 1538, and succeeded in converting them. Nevertheless there were remnants of Anabaptist groups in Hesse and4 KB (672 words) - 14:08, 23 August 2013
- wife, Mariam, decided to convert as well. But his second wife refused. Rumors had spread within the village that those who converted to Christianity did not8 KB (1,208 words) - 15:09, 12 April 2022
- enemies and the content of the numerous man-dates, brought a stream of new converts to the Mennonites. In spite of many reprints, also in the period of tolerance6 KB (992 words) - 17:00, 20 July 2021
- Anabaptists, and for a long time resisted the attempts of the Catholic clergy to convert him. In the period just preceding and during Hutter's imprisonment the Anabaptist6 KB (943 words) - 00:56, 16 January 2017
- Dowan, a medicine man who assisted them and became the first Christian convert. Wanzida means "One Face," a person of integrity. Later, the Roman Catholic4 KB (542 words) - 15:56, 12 December 2017
- Stadian, pastor in Göppingen, a Humanist and an old friend of Melanchthon, to convert the Anabaptists. He cannot have been a Lutheran preacher, as asserted by10 KB (1,639 words) - 23:30, 15 January 2017
- was left to languish in the prison but occupied himself with efforts to convert his fellow prisoners. When admonished by a priest concerning this he refused6 KB (1,035 words) - 23:22, 15 January 2017
- Hutterites record that in the spring of 1608 Berka instigated an attempt to convert them by force. Two companies of horsemen surrounded the Bruderhof for two6 KB (1,051 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- and soon found converts among dissatisfied Amish Mennonites there. Joseph Graybill, an Amish Mennonite, was one of the first converts and the first Apostolic9 KB (1,402 words) - 23:28, 3 June 2019
- Melanchthon hoped. On 13 January they had still resisted his attempts to convert them, and were described by Melanchthon as stubborn (Corp, Ref. III, 21)17 KB (2,767 words) - 17:53, 20 July 2021
- Waldenses; for such knowledge can be acquired in a short time. Examples of new converts in all periods of the Christian church prove this. Some Anabaptists seem13 KB (1,918 words) - 14:07, 31 December 2018
- conversion experiences. Some converts were young teenagers. Although Bishop Joseph Hagey of Waterloo baptized the 1869 converts, he refused to baptize subsequent5 KB (763 words) - 13:11, 26 October 2019
- widest circles of the population. To a young man whom he was trying to convert, he said, "Marx, hitherto you have been a happy young man and must now become39 KB (6,366 words) - 17:42, 20 July 2021
- Moravia; they were severely tortured and subjected to many attempts to convert them. They, however, made a marvelous escape from prison and reached the838 bytes (173 words) - 23:30, 15 January 2017
- missioners did not hesitate to "raid" the Swiss Brethren congregations to secure converts for "the Church of God" in Moravia, as a document of 1587 (TA Hessen, 494)9 KB (1,298 words) - 15:38, 7 December 2019
- the principles of the two groups, but also to the fact that attempts to convert members of the state churches in most cases brought severe persecution.34 KB (4,735 words) - 14:53, 9 April 2020
- visited in October 1534 by eight apostles sent out by Jan van Leyden to convert its citizens. Among the apostles were Johann Dusentschuer, Hendrik Slachtscaep1 KB (186 words) - 15:59, 20 January 2014
- Abraham and Anna Ratzlaff, and Gerhard and Katharina Giesbrecht. The first convert, Sepe Thama (i.e., a son), was baptized after ten years of work. In 19515 KB (784 words) - 17:08, 26 January 2023
- attacked the publication and offered to send several hundred tracts to convert the Kleine Gemeinde. On the other side Abraham Friesen protested that the6 KB (820 words) - 00:57, 16 January 2017
- taken root in both countries since the original efforts. Several national converts have been ordained. One Belizean church and most churches in El Salvador3 KB (464 words) - 14:07, 26 July 2016
- in three major steps. In the summer of 1946 a barn on the property was converted into a school with four rooms and dining facilities. In 1948 four classrooms2 KB (343 words) - 15:21, 9 April 2020
- Hiddema. The church was closed in 1999 and converted into a museum. In 2008 the church was sold and converted into housing. Doopsgezind Jaarboekje (1850):3 KB (295 words) - 03:47, 13 October 2014
- descendants of settlers from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; there are also some converts resulting from missionary efforts. There are six churches in the district2 KB (224 words) - 19:32, 5 March 2021
- in the time of Cromwell in England. Their name indicates their effort to convert idle land into a farm for the establishment of a colony of a religious communistic1 KB (245 words) - 03:12, 13 April 2014
- the council saw to it that they soon left the city. Among the prominent converts were the councillors and master goldsmiths Hans Müller and Daniel Hochweher7 KB (1,093 words) - 23:30, 15 January 2017
- escaped. He was raised on the farm and attended the local school. He was converted in 1856 and soon after joined the Mennonite Church (MC). On 22 March 18575 KB (752 words) - 05:47, 12 April 2014
- Carthage, the son of a captain, well educated, familiar with Greek, was converted to Christianity and defended its doctrines in numerous writings. His book2 KB (420 words) - 16:57, 20 July 2021
- Imprisonment is more frightening and also makes it possible to continue efforts to convert them. In the meantime intervention had been made by the States-General of5 KB (900 words) - 06:22, 19 December 2014
- in that capacity for 14 years. According to his testimony, he was not converted until eleven years after his ordination (1869, Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada)3 KB (435 words) - 15:27, 11 October 2013
- Java with Pieter Jansz (1820-1904) going out in 1851 (first baptism of 5 converts in 1854) as a teacher. A second and third worker were also sent out with11 KB (1,633 words) - 13:59, 23 August 2013
- warden to the magistrate with the message that all further attempts to "convert" them would be futile. Thereupon the death sentence was pronounced and immediately2 KB (281 words) - 07:17, 19 December 2014
- to Moravia, when he was seized at Schärding. He defied all attempts to convert him, "would not deviate to the right or to the left." Condemned to death2 KB (396 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- Zwaardgeesten, who were even more radical than the Münsterites. All who were not converted according to their doctrine, i.e., who would not join their party, could9 KB (1,264 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- carried on. The Rudri Christian families moved to Maradeo, owned by an Indian convert, in which settlement is now a small but very active Christian community1 KB (291 words) - 14:48, 23 August 2013
- into a special cell. When all attempts of Catholic priests from Vienna to convert them proved futile, 90 men, after a moving parting from their wives and2 KB (301 words) - 23:16, 15 January 2017
- graduates. During the German occupation (1941-1943) the school was again converted into the Zentralschule and continued the Mennonite tradition, even commemorating7 KB (975 words) - 07:30, 20 November 2016
- religious conformity to the dominant church. Many recanters were fresh converts, immature in Anabaptist thought and life; some had been Anabaptists for6 KB (964 words) - 18:56, 20 August 2013
- this epistle in one of the codices. Repeated attempts by the clergy to convert Fichter failed, and therefore he was put to death. He is reputedly the author3 KB (441 words) - 23:21, 15 January 2017
- after six days of imprisonment, during which the priests tried in vain to convert him, he was drowned on 27 July 1592. Three or four times the executioner3 KB (479 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- trying to win converts in the mines around Schwaz in the Inn Valley. Here he was captured and taken to Schwaz. Several attempts were made to convert him to the2 KB (431 words) - 07:27, 16 January 2017
- respected patrician Veith Pfeffel; another patrician, Leonhard Khoberer, was converted. When Hut was on trial in Augsburg and questioned about his activities7 KB (1,022 words) - 00:58, 16 January 2017
- Ruth and Rhoda Ressler, served as missionaries in Japan. Ressler was converted and united with the Mennonite Church (MC) at Strasburg, Pennsylvania, at4 KB (571 words) - 00:57, 16 January 2017
- his father's farm near Dale Enterprise. At the age of 16, Coffman was converted and baptized in Muddy Creek, near the Bank Church. A short time later,8 KB (1,205 words) - 06:28, 20 February 2014
- Heerbrand, Dietrich Schnepf, and other Tübingen theologians in trying to convert Walch. Walch finally signed a recantation on 12 July 1582. He now went to5 KB (910 words) - 23:31, 15 January 2017
- Müller, Berner Täufer, gives the information that after repeated attempts to convert them to the state church they were taken by boat to Holland on 10 September3 KB (437 words) - 08:40, 19 December 2014
- were maintained, with follow up literature circulated to converts. Continuing contact with converts was maintained by evangelistic teams who visited during10 KB (1,392 words) - 01:53, 11 March 2019
- was established in 895. Stephen I ascended to the throne in 1000 AD and converted the country to Christianity. Hungary was partially occupied by the Ottoman5 KB (817 words) - 08:22, 18 May 2014
- he was brought to Rome and delivered to the Pope, who tried in vain to convert him and then gave him over to a most terrible death in 1557. The letter3 KB (491 words) - 16:29, 2 December 2016
- 1890-1894 he worked for the Mennonite Publishing Company in Elkhart. He was converted at meetings held in Elkhart by his father and was baptized on 26 May 18886 KB (769 words) - 06:36, 13 February 2014
- of the count. In 1565 William, Duke of Jülich-Cleve-Berg, asked Lo to "convert" the Anabaptists held in Blankenberg and Bensberg. Lo disputed with them3 KB (478 words) - 17:39, 20 July 2021
- become a most effective evangelist for the Anabaptist cause, winning many converts in Swabia, Franconia, Bavaria, Salzburg, and Tyrol. In Augsburg men of141 KB (17,966 words) - 14:22, 17 March 2023
- either reviled the conservers for being too conservative, or tried to convert them because they seemed to the progressives to be lacking in spiritual21 KB (2,840 words) - 07:31, 20 November 2016
- Here he was frequendy visited by the local clergy, who tried in vain to convert him. He asked to be banished from the country, promising never to return2 KB (463 words) - 06:59, 16 January 2017
- ten years in Chicago were decisive in Funk's life. Here in 1858 he was converted in a Presbyterian revival, here he met and associated intimately with D11 KB (1,635 words) - 14:09, 2 July 2021
- Tribulation Wholesome. The Anabaptists want the Philosopher’s Stone to convert goods into gold in order to use this money to win more people to their denomination3 KB (480 words) - 17:40, 20 July 2021
- immigrated with his parents to Hillsboro, Kansas at age three. He was converted at eighteen and joined the Gnadenau Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church.4 KB (588 words) - 23:59, 13 September 2019
- and judging from a letter Calvin wrote to Farel, they must have won some converts. But their work was of short duration. They were taken prisoner; two were3 KB (485 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- first sermon in the Emmanuel Church (General Conference Mennonite). He converted and baptized 70 persons; these formed the beginning of the Lone Tree congregation6 KB (697 words) - 11:45, 23 January 2021
- Most of the members were farmers. The meetinghouse was sold in 1998 and converted into a house. Loosjes, J. "Jan Jacobsz en de Jan-Jacobsgezinden." Nederlandsch3 KB (386 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- On 6 August 1871 he baptized the first three converts, and within ten years he had baptized 125 converts. Because of the education of his children he returned7 KB (1,065 words) - 18:53, 13 January 2019
- desired result or whether the martyr remained silent, an effort was made to convert him. This end was served not only by the cross-examinations, but more especially11 KB (1,750 words) - 14:03, 17 December 2018
- time the number was reported at 80,000. In South Germany they won many converts among the wool weavers. Nobles were among their patrons and even members11 KB (1,672 words) - 18:30, 28 July 2018
- "one-eyed Jakob," was born in Memmingen, Swabia, and seems to have been converted to Anabaptism in 1527, probably in Augsburg. From here he went to Nikolsburg5 KB (724 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- With friendliness and patient explanation Alber and his fellow preachers converted the Esslingen refugee Anabaptists back to the Lutheran faith, among them3 KB (460 words) - 00:57, 16 January 2017
- workers were indispensable as catechists and disciplers of prospective converts. Many workers went on to become pastors and church leaders. Of the first5 KB (813 words) - 18:53, 23 May 2014
- significant revitalization with the result that there is continuing interest in converting the religiously pluralistic republic of Indonesia into an Islamic republic19 KB (2,662 words) - 23:07, 24 January 2023
- Chimarrheus of Sittard, renowned for his eloquence and especially invited to convert her, had no success. The priests threatened her with everlasting pains in4 KB (790 words) - 00:36, 16 January 2017
- he was won for Anabaptism by Franz Intzinger and baptized with another convert. He married an Anabaptist woman, but she left him when he migrated to Moravia4 KB (675 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- and surroundings in early February 1896. In 1905 this association was converted into a Mennonite congregation. On Good Friday of 1896 ten persons were5 KB (628 words) - 16:49, 13 June 2016
- apostolic injunction of Romans 16:16. Cyprian reported that the one baptizing a convert, as well as the entire church, greeted the newly baptized with the holy34 KB (5,368 words) - 01:16, 21 December 2014
- Because of severe persecution, Hutter sent a large contingent of these newly converted brethren to Moravia, the "promised land," under the leadership of Zaunring6 KB (856 words) - 07:36, 16 January 2017
- eyes; yet could a brush make his voice heard, everyone's heart would be converted to virtuous living. Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1865): 69. Hege, Christian4 KB (672 words) - 21:36, 29 October 2019
- at a different site and the entire former Salem Hospital and Annex was converted into a larger home for the aged, known as the "Salem Home for the Aged2 KB (391 words) - 18:57, 20 August 2013
- administration of the properties of the Huizen congregation. The church, now converted into a private house, still stood in 1955, and an inscription, Religioni3 KB (394 words) - 01:18, 16 October 2014
- in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. They tried to convert them by sending evangelists, colporteurs, and Bible school students. In5 KB (778 words) - 01:55, 11 March 2019
- infant baptism. Kautz was won over for the Anabaptist principles; among his converts was his co-preacher Hilarius, who in turn converted many others. The clergy4 KB (604 words) - 19:57, 5 March 2019
- preacher at his side spoke sympathetically to him encouraging him to be converted, he hardly heard him; but when he perceived his mother's voice on the opposite12 KB (2,010 words) - 00:52, 16 January 2017
- the brotherhood to that spiritual and moral height which attracted many converts during the second half of the 16th century. He was a Tirolean, born near11 KB (1,644 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- of the country with confiscation of their goods if they refused to be converted to Roman Catholicism. Nevertheless, in 1670 there were Mennonites in Born3 KB (431 words) - 21:26, 20 January 2014
- decision to convert. Pastor Bado, of the Assemblies of God congregation in Sindou, led him in prayer. Afterwards, he went back, converted, to his home14 KB (2,557 words) - 13:24, 11 February 2023
- born near Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on 14 August 1823. Converted at the age of 18, he joined the United Brethren Church and began to preach1 KB (242 words) - 19:18, 20 August 2013
- consideration for some justifiable innovations, and the zeal of those converted to new practices and principles brought the matter to a climax just as15 KB (1,801 words) - 22:18, 10 June 2019
- his life as a carpenter, cabinet-maker, apiarist and a weaver. He was converted under the preaching of John S. Coffman and united with the Mennonite Church3 KB (481 words) - 21:24, 29 October 2019
- however, not very successful until 1907. After 1907 complete clans were converted and baptized, and a number of Christian congregations were established2 KB (337 words) - 18:52, 20 August 2013
- original hospital together with an annex which was built some years ago were converted into the Salem Home for the Aged, which was operated under a board separate2 KB (323 words) - 18:57, 20 August 2013
- The chief crops were corn, aipim (a starch-bearing tuber which must be converted to starch for profitable sale), and sweet potatoes. Attempts at dairying5 KB (843 words) - 00:33, 16 January 2017
- September 1867 he married Helena Rempel. In the spring of 1873 he was converted and joined the MB Church, baptized on 23 April 1873. He immediately had5 KB (677 words) - 15:47, 31 January 2014
- village school at Klippenfeld for two years. During this time Voth was converted and had a deep religious experience, and a remarkable revival also occurred4 KB (636 words) - 07:58, 12 March 2015
- of Obbe Philips against the Münsterite leaders. Hence he must have been converted from his revolutionary views to his former peaceful grounds. Returning3 KB (458 words) - 11:43, 21 April 2017
- was gradually discontinued and was closed ca. 1924 and the property was converted into the Welsh Mountain Samaritan Home. The spiritual ministry was continued2 KB (407 words) - 19:56, 29 November 2013
- area of Maienfeld and Fläsch were suppressed. At first they refused to be converted; but when the use of the rack was threatened they recanted. A leader escaped16 KB (2,521 words) - 00:28, 16 January 2017
- country schools in the vicinity of Buhler, Kansas for twelve years. He was converted in 1897 and joined the Ebenezer MB Church east of Buhler. In 1907, when3 KB (486 words) - 00:38, 7 July 2014
- of the Jesuits at Amsterdam, who in this period made a large number of converts including some Mennonites. As there is no agreement as to the year in which6 KB (1,013 words) - 17:23, 5 April 2016
- 1871, by Heinrich Dirks. On 3 August 1871, he received the first three converts into the congregation by baptism. When he left to return to Russia in 18812 KB (332 words) - 23:29, 15 January 2017
- formed by conversion and baptisms of the orphan boys and girls, and the converted families brought from other areas for labor and help. There have been few16 KB (2,073 words) - 11:22, 24 February 2021
- was transferred to Brandzoll. Hutter's wife was kept in Gufidaun to be converted from her error, but with the aid of friends she escaped from the castle3 KB (509 words) - 00:29, 16 January 2017
- Menno's view, people are created after the image of God when they are converted to Christ (Menno, Writings, 55-58, 396, 409, 416). Rarely does he refer11 KB (1,772 words) - 13:36, 31 December 2018
- 1834, German ed. Lancaster, 1827); Letter from John Herr to a Number of Converts in Eric County N.Y. (1833); A Remarkable Vision (1835). Herr also published5 KB (783 words) - 07:29, 16 January 2017
- began his teaching service in Mennonite village schools, 1881-88. He was converted at 19 and joined the Mennonite Brethren Church. In 1891 he went to Rumania4 KB (547 words) - 18:41, 13 January 2019
- accounts and artefacts by those who had. In Amsterdam Picart became a Huguenot convert, and partnered with another Huguenot refugee, the bookseller Jean-Frédéric7 KB (992 words) - 22:03, 23 November 2014
- adherents of world religions. Christian missions have gained most of their converts among "animists." That is also true in regard to Mennonite mission work3 KB (486 words) - 05:45, 12 April 2014
- responded positively and baptized converts from the Port Elgin revival. However he then declined to baptize the Waterloo converts because of objections that arose4 KB (647 words) - 11:22, 25 October 2019
- is the successor of the Welsh Mountain Industrial Mission, which was converted into an old people's home and the name changed in 1924. The first guests1 KB (258 words) - 16:07, 2 December 2013
- are buried in the Byer Cemetery in Markham Township. Abraham Raymer was converted when he was 31, in about 1845. It is said he had been preaching in Mennonite5 KB (833 words) - 14:00, 13 August 2016
- in Neumark. In 1818 he reported in his diary that he and his wife were converted through Jung-Stilling's writings, and then had fellowship with other Pietists3 KB (374 words) - 19:37, 20 August 2013
- was founded in 1945 at Matsqui village and the members first met in a converted farmhouse. Abram D. Rempel is considered to be the founding leader of this4 KB (487 words) - 19:54, 26 October 2017
- with a full basement, was dedicated in 1947. In 1970, this building was converted to a three-story education wing and a new place of worship, with a seating4 KB (559 words) - 23:28, 30 July 2018
- sermons. The first meeting place was a rented office space that had been converted into a Bible Center. It was only when more interest was shown that a Sunday5 KB (490 words) - 13:03, 21 April 2020
- fifteen he began to work in his father's shop. In 1864 Schellenberg was converted and baptized the following summer. He soon became active in his home church5 KB (764 words) - 18:58, 20 August 2013
- church was built on this same location in 1991. The old sanctuary was converted into a dining hall with a large new kitchen, while the education wing was8 KB (831 words) - 14:11, 18 October 2023
- to Italy, and in Florence met one Pietro Manelfi, a former priest. He converted Manelfi and others to that brand of spiritual religion which he had himself11 KB (1,457 words) - 14:22, 31 March 2021
- only did the surviving ministers start to preach, but also many of the converted but unordained young men began to conduct meetings and preach. Worship25 KB (3,660 words) - 00:54, 16 January 2017
- the spirit spread from one to another until over a hundred persons were converted in about two months. Ministers who served the Baumgartner congregation13 KB (1,195 words) - 15:16, 11 March 2024
- Luther, others from the Lower Rhine and the Netherlands until the city was converted into a radical Anabaptist "New Jerusalem" which was liquidated in 153513 KB (1,907 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- first Gospel messages were given in a rented hall, and the first seven converts were baptized on 5 January 1927. The following missionaries have served2 KB (401 words) - 16:28, 17 November 2016
- to preach at Woudsend in 1837, and two years later at Zutphen. He was converted in the revival movement "Reveil," and became one of its ardent advocates4 KB (611 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- in Mennonite schools, where he continued to work for six years. He was converted at the age of 23 through the preaching of F. W. Baedeker of England, who3 KB (517 words) - 23:22, 3 March 2020
- was transferred to the Rheinische (Rhine) Mission (non-Mennonite). Later converts in this territory joined the Battak inland church. See also Batta, Hutagodang3 KB (428 words) - 20:21, 1 April 2014
- might." When he learned that Anabaptists were coming from Moravia to win converts, he issued the harsh mandate of 30 September 1584, "to admit no one, to19 KB (2,363 words) - 18:19, 19 April 2021
- held by Peter Ropp of Berne, Michigan resulted in a number of converts. However these converts would not accept the dress restrictions required by the Amish7 KB (735 words) - 14:12, 13 December 2021
- Anabaptists but turned to fellow rebels to make their first Anabaptist converts. Hans Hut assigned the rebellion of 1525 apocalyptic significance as the10 KB (1,519 words) - 23:29, 15 January 2017