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Friday
October 25
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Lecture by Dr. Frank Epp,
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College, Waterloo, Ontario.
Topic: "Mennonite Roots in
the Past"
Symposium topic: "Mennonites
and Pacifism. " Participants:
Dr. Frank Epp - Conrad
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Bluffton College, Ohio; Dr. Roy
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Theatre A Bluffton College. Topic: "The
Room 431 Mennonite in Today 's World"
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Riddell Hall
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About this issue
Inside you will find
The Mennonite Mirror, with this edition, begi ns its
fourth year of publication. The magaz ine wi ll continue
to highlight those activities which are of interest to
the whole Mennonite Community, in particular it w ill
publish those stori es which cut across our denominational
affi liations. Accordingly it will tend not to
duplicate the coverage, or type of mat eri al , that is
found in our church papers. The Mirror is a magazine
which will, therefore, reflect on Mennonites as a
people, and the contributions of t hose people t o the
society at large.
The feature article this month is on Ben Horch .
Most Mennonites, and many others, have heard of
Mr. Horch. Considerably f ew, however, have had an
opportunity to find out about this dynamic man. It
is appropriate to write about him at t his time, beca use
Mr. Horch will soon become Dr. Horch . The University
of Winnipeg will be awardi ng an honorary doctorate
to him later this month. The co incidenceofthisfeature
in the Mirror and the U of W aw ard are quite
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the contest in this article.
There is also a tribute to Rev. J. H. Enns. Although
the Mirror does not publish obituaries as such the
death of as notable a person as Rev. Enns cannot go
by without some appraisal of his work and influence.
Pl ease read the Mirror. Tell us what you th ink in
a letter. lively debates among letter writers will make
the Mirror your magazine.
Mennonite Week .. .. _ . . . . .............. 7
J. H. Enns: an appreciation . . ..... ........ 9
Ben Horch: a dean of Mennonite conductors. .. 12
Refl.ections from Readers . .... . ....... _.. 15
FYI: an unofficial language for all seasons .. . ... 17
Manitoba News ........ 19
Der Alte Friedrich ....... . .. .......... 22
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Mennonite Week at U of W
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Rev. J. 'H. Enns, 1889 1974:
The f un eral service for Rev, j,H, Enns on
September 4, wh ich filled t he large First
Mennonite Church of Winnipeg to overflowing,
WdS a fitti ng tribute to an unusual and
widely respected individua l.
I n my own mind I was carried back to the
late 1940's when Rev. Enns visited our home
in Steinbach to conduct Sunday worship
services. He was the leading minister of both
the First Menno nite Church of Winnipeg and
of a mu ch larger congregation called the
Sclloenwiese r (Beautiful Meadow) Church,
which in cluded First Mennonite in addition
to about a do zen other congregations in
Manitoba.
The Steinbach branch of this church
usually met in our home for worhsip about
once a month. Rev. Enns took his ',turn"
several times a year, In this rather intimate
setting, followed by a meal, I formed my
first impress ions of him.
There was something forceful, and at the
same time gentle , about hi s personality.
Though he sp ~ ke quietly and always very
positively abou't the cl aims of the Christian
faith he was by no means a weak or timid
person. There were those who equated his
gentle manners with softness, but they were
(The editorial committee of the Mennonite
Mirror decided last sprin,q to publish occasional
"appreciations" of persons recently
deceased who, in the opinion of the editors,
made a si,qnificant contribution to the Mennonite
community.
Our first appreciation is of Rev. ;.H. Enns
who died on September 1, 7974, at the a,qe
of 85. He was the ,quiding spirit of the First
Mennonite Church of Winnipe,q for more
than three decades, during which time the
membership of this con,qre,qation increased
from le ss than 700 to 7,300, makin,q it one
of the larges t con,qre,qations in the world
Mennonite brotherhood,
Unlike obituaries, which are adequately
covered in the daily press and radio, our
apprecia tions will toeus not so much on the
even ts in a person's life as on the meanin,q
of that life for the Mennonite community.
While positive in tone, they are not meant
to be eulo,qies. What we hope to achieve is
an honest and r espectful evaluation of a
person's life. We encourage readers to send
us similar appreciations from time to time
for our consideration).
mistaken in this impression. He had very
strong convictions and in private discussions
particularly he could become quite emotional
in expressing them. I was not surprised in
later years, when I had the opportunity of
working closely with him, to discover that
he led church council and brotherhood meetings
with a very firm sense of direction. I
once asked him how he would define the
role of a chairman at a meeting and he
replied in characteristicFashion: "A chairman
must take the time before a meeting to
think carefully about the decisions that
should come out of the meeting and then at
the meeting, within limits of fairness and
tolerance, he should try his utmost to obtain
those decisions."
I n this regard Rev. Enns was most
fortunate in his choice of a life's partner.
His wife always supported him, without
losing her own individuality and the freedom
to assert her own view poi nt. I always found
it refreshing to observe the way in which
they supported and corrected each other.
Quite recently Rev. Enns, in keeping with
his strong sense of family loyalty, took me
aside and upbraided me for having worked
for a political candidate in opposition to
one of his sons. His wife overheard the
conversation and immediately took her
husband to task, stating very forcefully that
this is after all a democratic country and
the son in question respected my right to
have my own convictions. Rev. Enns smiled,
not fully convinced but willing to live with
the fact that freedom was not possible Without
some conflict.
I n the late 1940's Rev. Enns stood at the
beginning of the most fruitful period of his
ministry. The years following saw a tremendous
influx of Mennonite refugees from
Europe. A large number of those who came
to Winnipeg were greeted personally at the
station by Rev. Enns and subsequently found
in his congregation the spiritual home for
which they were looking. I have been told
by many of these refugees that no minister
in their experience made them feel so
welcome.
The late 1940's were also a period of
storm and controversy in Rev. Enns' life.
In 1945 at a meeting of ministers and
deacons in the Springstein Mennonite Church
Rev. Enns delivered a paper on the thought
of Hans Denk, an early Anabaptist. He
expressed sympathy with Hans Denk, inby
R.H. Vogt
an appreciation
eluding Denk's conviction that God would
ultimately reconcile all people to himself.
In this regard Rev. Enns quoted the passage
from Philippians 2: 10-11, " ... at the name
of Jesus eve ry knee should bow, in heaven
and on earth and under the earth, and every
tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord . .. "
S ubseq uen tly a t the ann ual session of the
Conferen ce of Mennonites in Canada held at
Eigenheim Saskatchewan Rev. Enns was
,accused of falsely interpreting scripture.
This accusation was repeated in the Mennon
ite press and was debated at a number of
special meetings called for that purpose, including
a bitter one in Winnipeg at the old
Bethel Church which led to the separation
of the First Mennonite Church from the
Canadian Conference. The church remained
a member of the General Conference, however,
and the latter sent a reconciliation
committee to Canada to reunite the church
with the Canadian Conference. This was
formally accomplished at the annui\1 session
of the Conference in Sardis B.C. in 1949.
However, the mistrust and personal antagonisms
generated by this controversy could
not be healed overnight and in the eyes of
some they cast a shadow over Rev.
Enns and his congregation for many years.
In later years Rev. Enns was reluctant to
discuss this controversy, not because he
lacked courage but because he felt that there
was no purpose in reviving old wounds, He
said several times that he was willing to rest
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the whole ma tter in God's hand s and get on
with the building of God's Kingdom.
Partly beca use of this debate, and hi s
gen tie man ner, t here were tho se who
attributed to Rev. Enns a somewha t sentimenta
l understanding of the Christia n faith,
not grounded firmly in scripture. I think
this impressio n is mostly, though not entirely,
wrong. I have already indicated that
under tha t gentle exterior there existed
a forceful and tough personality. He beli
eved not in a se ntimental God but in a very
powerfu l one and he was optimisti c in the
face of evil not beca use he had romantic
illusions about e vi I but because he be li eved
that in the end no ev il was more powerful
than God. His position was ve ry close to that
of Karl Barth, or John Calvin. I t was also
deeply grounded in scripture. In his years of
re tire ment he spent many mornings in the
Church library translating large sections of
the New T estament directl y from the Greek
in to Germa n_ He once said to me: "It is God,
not I, who tells me to love my enemies, and
since God asks me to do it I am certain
that He does it as well."
We disagreed consistently, however, on one
point, and that is why I say that the impression
described above is not entirely
wrong. I felt that his view of evil was
li m ited too much to the personal dimension.
He was dismayed,' but not surprised, whe n
he encountered evil in individuals. He was
surprised, however, when I suggested to him
occasiona lly that whole institutions co.uld
have an evil bent to them, includ'1ng
law courts, parliamentary cabinets and
business corporations. I be lieve that he,
li ke many other people of his generation,
desi red law and order so much after the
upheavals of the Russian Revolution, that he
rejected such criticism as hopeless cynicism.
Heseemed to assume that a decision of a court
,was almost automatically just, that a corpo
ration president must be acting in the best
interest of his employees , and that apart
from unscrupulous politicians, major
government bodies must be acting in the
best interests of the people. I t was in this
'area that we had our most vigorous disagreemen
ts, and it is possible that at ti mes I
judged him to be more reactionary than he
was, while he assumed that my criticisms
meant that I was more opposed to our
preva iling institutions than was actually the
case. In this one area I felt that a broader
and more critica l vision was ne cessary.
In other respects I, and nume rolls o ther
individuals Whose lives he touched , o we him
a tremendous debt. I t was hi s positive and
yet powerful vision of the C hristi an faith
which more than anything el se promp ted me
a nd hundreds of others to commit oursel ve s
to a life of Christian discipleship. I
fee l deepl y honored that I was baptil ed by
him and t hat I had the priv ilege of being
hi s co-worker for a number of years. Wh a t
impressed me more than anything else was
the daily reminder that Rev. I. H. Enns,
more than almost any individual o r minister
I have known, acted in response to hi s
personal rea ding and thoug ht and not in
response to o ther people's ex pecta tions of
him. He li stened to a different drummer a nd
those of us w hose lives have bee n spiritually
enriched by him have no doubt about the
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Ben Horch: Dean of Mennonite conductors
In June of last year Mr. Ben Ho rch retired
formallv from his position as producer of
music programming at the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, Winnipeg. Hi s retirement
marked a milestone in a di stinguished
career, for in 1973 Mr. Horch completed
42 years of dedicated service to the cause of
serious music among Mennonites. His retirement
marked also the end of what has already
come to be known among Manitoba
Mennonites as "the Ben Horch years."
A brief resume elsewhere in these pages
sets forth in chronological order the many
positions that Mr. Horch has held since
1932. He has indeed served as "a man for
all seasons" _.. as voice teacher, as conductor
and admini strator, as resource person, edito r
and professional broadcaster. Impressive as
this published record is, it fails to capture and
transmit those qualities for w hich most
Mennonites remember him.
Thousa nds of Ma nitobans who have witnessed
and heard a "Ben Horch production"
associate him with Haydn's Creation or -
more especially - with Handel's Messiah.
What they recall most vividly are the dynamism
and exuberance of the conductor, as
well as the high artistic quality of the performances.
The many hundreds of Manitobans
wllo have sung in hi s choirs and played
in his orchestras share memories that transcend
in importance any formal music
training tlley may have received from Mr.
Horch; what they remember is the powerful
impact of a flamboyant personality in the
intensely dedicated exercise of his craft.
These amateur musicians will never forget
the electric excitement of a performance or
the magic of a rehearsal.
A Ben Horch rehearsal was a controlled
"happening," a disciplined romp. To encourage
receptiveness in his young musicians,
or to hold their attention when fatigue set
in, Mr. Horch would regale them with
anecdotes (apocraphyl, surely ) of tone-deaf
harpists, of young violin ists paralyzed with
stage fright or of old cellists simply paralyzed.
He pulled all the theatrical stops, and he
was the master of comic timing.
He was also a master of that dramatic
technique, change of pace and mood. When
anecdotes, witty word play and clever mime
fell on deaf ears or lazy eyes, Mr. Horch
12/ mennonite mirror / october 1974
could alter the atmosphe re instantaneously
wi th a stern phrase or a look of grave
displeasure.
On those rare occasions when neither
the comic nor the serious modes were
effective Mr. Horch played his trump card:
the expression of paternal weariness and
keen disappointment in those whom he had
trusted. This last technique gave Mr. HOI"ch
the psychological upper hand, and it never
(in my experi ence) failed; we felt that we
Ilad ve ry m uch wanted to please. He was,
after all, our "Uncle Ben."
The theatrical and dramatic skills so
esse ntial to the in spiration and motivation
of young music students surfaced in the
young Ben Horch early in his high school
days. For three consecutive years he pl ayed
the roles of clowns and "licensed fools" in
high school productions of Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night and As You Like It.
The director of the Anna Bronaugh Company
(a professional stock company from
England) was so impressed with young
Ben's comic skills that he offered him a
position as understudy to the lead ing man.
"I skipped so many Wednesdays to go to
the matinees that it affected my chemistry
results," says an older Ben Horch, still
sporting an impish grin that belongs in
Shakespearean comedy. This early involvement
in high school drama, the lure of the
professional stage ("$35 a month and all
expenses! ") and later particiaption in Winnipeg
Little Theatre nearly propelled Ben
Horch into a career as s tage actor.
Competing IV ith this strong interest in
theatre - yet in many ways complementing
it - was an interest in music, especially
singing. After win ning a festival competition
in the baritone class and finishing as runner-up
to the Tudor Bowl, the teen-aged frequenterof-theatres
was invited to join the Winnipeg
Male Voice Choir. He was its youngest member
at the t ime, and "an out-and-out
Romanticist," to use his phrase. His earliest
musical inspiration (excluding his home
environment) derived from Hugh Ross, conductor
of both the Winnipeg Male Voice
Choir and the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir,
and later Arturo Toscanini's chorus master
w ith the N.Y. Philharmonic and NBC
by Lloyd Siemens
The combined Winnipeg Mennonite
Symphony and the Winkler Schools
Orchestra at one of their annual combined
concerts at the Playhouse Theatre in the
late 1940s.

"Something had to get through - from me
to the singers to the audience - and music
was the means to do that."
"Poets write of Orpheus and his lute. I say.
Bach and his harpsichord."
mennonite mirror / october 1974 /13

Symphony Orchestras.
Mr. Horch remains high in his praise of
Hugh Ross: "Of all the people I've studied
with, I still don't know of anyone who
came near him in the power of communication,
in artistic strength and power. His was
not just academic music-making; it was total
communication. From him, too, I learned
that the secret of great art is to conceal the
art." As his own career was later to demon·
strate, the young chorister was an impressionable
student and a faithful disciple of
the Ross philosophy.
The art of conducting combined the skills
of stage and the concert hall, and it provided
this "belated Romanticist" with the ideal
vehicle for self-expression and communication:
"Something had to get through from
me to the singers to the audience - and
music was the means to do that."
There were other early influences in Mr.
Horch's life. His mother was "a pragmatic
person who would have liked us all to be
farmers; her moral influence was strong."
His father, a craftsman in wood by trade,
was also an organist who felt comfortable
with a wide range of music. "He accepted
music as an art in its own right, without the
kind of religious pragmatism that the church
demanded." Although he gratefully acknow·
ledges both influences, Mr. Horch concedes
that his father's view of art won out in the
end.
Perhaps stronger than the influence of any
one person was the influence of a home
environment steeped in the broad traditions
of Lutheran culture, a culture that did not
make sharp distinctions between sacred and
secular music. The Horch children took
naturally to the works of such musical
giants as Bach, Beethoven and Wagner, and
they were encouraged to master the rudiments
of several musical instruments. "My
father bought me nearly every instrument
I asked for, and what he didn't buy I begged,
borrowed or ... rented."
An older brother, Edward, played the
'cello and piano; Emily played piano and
organ. Two younger brothers are today
widely known in Manitoba music circles,
Emmanuel as a violinist and Albert as a
professional flautist. Both are highly successful
music teachers.
From this matrix of interests and
influences the 21-year-old singer and jackof-all-instruments
emerged in 1928 to begin
a career in teach ing. For seven years he was
choral director and teacher of music theory
Ben Horch
For over 40 years, Benjamin Horch has served Manitoba and the Manitoba Mennonites
through distinguished leadership in the field of choral and symphonic music. Born in
Russia in 1907 of German parentage, Mr. Horch arrived in Canada in 1909. After a number
of years of private study in voice and music theory, he served for seven years as choral
director and teacher of music theory at the Winnipeg Bible Institute (now Winnipeg Bible
College, Otter bourne) an interdenominational school. Four years of formal music studies
followed this period at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola College) in church
music, piano, conducting and history. In this period he was active as a student choral
director in various Baptist and Quaker chruches.
In 1943 Mr. Horch returned to Manitoba, and for the next 12 years - except for a
Sabbatical leave to study at the Detmold Akademie of Musik - he was Director of the
Music Department at Mennonite Brethren Bible College. At Detmold he came under the
tutelage of Kurt Thomas, the thirteenth cantor of St. Thomas since ,J.S.·Bach. During this
twelve-year period he conducted both the Mennonite Brethren Bible College Oratorio Choir,
College A Capella Choir, and the Mennonite Community Choir in Winnipeg.
He founded and conducted the Mennonite Symphony Orchestra (an orchestra that for
some years provided the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra with a "local stock" ofprofessional
musicians). In the summer interims (1943-1950) he was also the leading "Kurseleiter"
(music clinitian, resource person, conductor of choral festivals) for the Mennonite Brethren
Conference in Canada, a position that brought him into close contact with choir directors
and musicians in Mennonite constituencies in Ontario and in the four provinces of western
Canada. In this capacity he also served as one of the musical editors of the Mennonite
Brethren Gesangbuch (Hymnary).
Since 1955, in addition to conducting choirs in Altona and Winnipeg, Mr. Horch has
devoted most of his energies to the field of broadcasting. He was program director of
serious music at KWSO, California (1955-57). In Manitoba he served the cause of broadcast
music from 1957 to 1973 - the last thirteen years as a CBC producer of serious music
programming. At the CBC he also produced a wide range of LP stereo recordings with
Winnipeg artists of both national and international stature.
Although formally retired since June 1973 Mr. Horch continues with the CBC as a freelance
broadcaster. He is a member of the board of directors of the Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestra and a member of the Program Committee. He is presently a music consultant to
the editorial Committee charged with the compilation of the first Encyclopedia of Music
in Canada to be published in 1978.
He begins a new appointment in the fall of 1974 as conductor of the Steinbach Community
Orchestra. His wife, Esther Horch, has taught hymnology at both MBBC and CMBC
and also acted as a consultant to the editors of the recent M.B. Gesangbuch. For the last
15 years she has been professionally involved in social work institutions.
14/ mennonite mirror I october 1974
at the Winnipeg Bible I nstitute (now Winnipeg
Bible College). and for eleven years -
until 1939 - he taught voice. ("I was a
lousy voice teacher," he says in retrospect.)
At approximately this time he also formed
and conducted the Wayside Chapel Orchestra
("I t was way out, believe me"), a group of
about 30 players. The orchestra had as its
base the Northend MB Church and it
forayed frequently to Winkler and other
southern-Manitoba towns. "The group played
everything," says Mr. Horch with a bemused
smile; "we played fox trots, vox trots,
waltzes and 'He is Coming Soon'." Although
Mr. Horch refers to this early effort as "an
abortive attempt," he admits that in his own
church "there was very little criticism, no
matter how the feet started to go."
Looking back on this first decade of
teaching and conducting, Mr. Horch assesses
his apprenticeship in this way: "That period
ended in the sure knowledge that I had an ,;,
awful lot to learn about music and also in
the knowledge that I could not get the
training in Canada."
His ardour only slightly dampened, Mr.
Horch left Winnipeg in 1939 to study music
at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now
Biola College). After four years of study he
was invited by Rev. A. A. Kroeker to return
to Manitoba and to divide his professional
time between teaching music at the Winkler
Bible Institute and organizing a music program
in the Winkler public school system.
During the summer months (1943·1950)
he toured Ontario and western Canada in
his capacity as Kurseleiter. The choral workshops
that he conducted stimulated the need
for a music department in the Mennonite
Brethren Bible College and, as a result, in
1944 Mr. Horch was appointed chairman of
the M.B. Bible College music department, a
position that he held until 1955.
These years - immediately after his undergraduate
studies, and while he was working
intimately with Mennonite young people
from across western Canada - confirmed
and brought to a focus several of Mr. Horch's
most deeply-held convictions about the
role of the Mennonite musician and about
the nature and function of music in Mennonite
life and worship.
Next Month: Benjamin Horch's Views on
Music.
Comment in the
Winnipeg Free Press
on the Mennonite Mirror:
In an article on ethnic papers in the July 13,
1974 issue of the Winnipeg Free Press,
staff writer Lee Schacter observed that
the Mennonite Mirror is "Ilvely and alert ....
The magazine is half staff-written, half
free-lance. Poetry flows in, in surprising
volume. The staff, which includes a number
of professional people, newspaper people an<
artists, donate their services free and do th~
work in the.ir spare time." She conclude!
that "through the (Mennonitische) Rund
schau and the Mennonite Mirror, Mennonite'
receive their intellectual and their spiritua
nourishment. It's a neat combination, anI
pleases editors and readers alike."

[ reflections from our readers
I
One Dare Deserves Another
An annonymoLis reader has dared us to
print a letter. We would have, but the
reader did not sign it. The Mennonite Mirror
has made it a po licy not to print unsigned
letters although it will withhold the author's
na me on request. This unidentified reader
complained of the shabby treatment which
the Steinbach High School gave to a student
group from Winnipeg's Sisler High School
when the latte r attempted to present an
ope rettd. Poor advance publicity ensured a
small audience, and the audience that was
present in Steinbach added insult to injury
by hurling racial slurs at a bl ack member
of the cast whe never he was on stage. If
the writer of this lette r dares to come out of
the woodwork we will dare to print his/ her
letter.
Dear Sir:
Greetings from Sunny Kansas! Just recently
I got acquainted with the "Mennonite
Mirror" and have been e njoying every
number this year.
My grandfather Abra ham Dyck a nd wife
Anna Friesen Dyck settled in Manitoba
1874 or 1875. I believe they stayed only a
few years, and returned to Russia to give
their children a n education and later, in
189 1 they came back to Manitoba and
stayed one year before moving to Saskatchewan.
They se ttled on a farm near Waldheim,
where Abraham Dyck helped to start the
first school in their district. He was a cattle
poundkeeper, farmer, carpenter, smithy and
thresherman. Abraham Dycks had two
children, Peter A . Dyck (my father,) sister
Anna Dyck mar ried Jacob Rempel. One son
Peter died a t an early age. Peter and Anna
were among the first group of young people
who organized a Jugendverein in that area.
The older people had frowned open that idea
at first. My father Peter A. Dyck worked on
the farm with his father Abra ham before
becoming a storekeeper in Waldheim and
later in Laird, Sas k. Peter A. Dyck died
Nov. 1911; his wife: mother Anna Banmann
Dyck died Feb. 1912; Grandmother Anna
Friesen Dyck: April 1912; My brother
Peter Dyck April 1912; Grandfather Abraham
Dyck died Ja n. 1914.
Among a box of papers that were saved for
my brother Henry P. Dyck (who lives in
Saskatoon, Sas k. ) and myself were pages of
a diary of 1875 for July & Aug. At that
time Grandparents Abraham and Anna
Friesen Dyck lived in Manitoba. It might
be that descendents of the Friesens live in
Manitoba at this time. That is why I wanted
to share it with the readers.
I am working on a geneology and would
be pleased to hear from any Friesens who
are descendents of great grandparents: Jacob
Friesen born Dec. 17, 1819, wife Elisabeth
Banmann Friesen born May 28, 1921 lived '
at Re inland, Ma n. Nov 1896. There was a
son Abram Friesen and Jacob Friese n . If
any readers know where they are buried
please le t me know.
I noticed in the article by: Pete r B.
Reimer in a recent iss ue of Mennonite
Mirror many n ames mentioned: Reimer,
Barkmenn , etc. that are also mentioned in
the enclosed Diary of 1875.
Sincerely ,
Anna M. Dyck Pete rs
(Mrs. Arthur H. Peters)
Walton, Route 1,
Kansas 67151
Dear Sirs:
Three years ago I sent you a two-year
subscription to the Mirror. It is usual
practice to discontinue mailings when a
subscription has expired, therefore I did
not notify you of our change of address .
However, I continued to receive "postage
due" issues, so must request you to take
my name off your list of subscribers .•
Frankly, we felt in recent months that
you no longer represented the Mennonites
to their best advantage (e.g. hippie-guitarist
heroes and barbed wi re crosses.) Perhaps
the Mennonites have changed more than we
realized on our Island. In any case, we
withdraw from them.
Yours truly,
Leonore Ewert.
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The Trial of Jesus
'T he Winnipeg Men no ni te Theatre is pkased
to announce that f'ehearsa ls are now in
progress for its next major prod uctio n, a
contem porary sacred play whi ch wil l be
the group's centen ni al project as we ll.
I n kee ping w i Ih the predom in an tly re lig ious
natur e of most of t he events marking th is
hi stor ic year for the Menn onite comm uni ty,
a d i, tinguished J nd unique G (~ r ma n play,
entitled "Prozess jesu" (The Tria l of j esus)
by the I ta li an playwright Di ego Fa bri , w ill
be presented o n November 15 th and 16th
at the Pl ay hOLi se Theatre.
Unlike many ra the r simpl y wri tten reli g io us
plays, th is wo rk in telli ge nt ly and interestingly
combines court room dram a with can­
. te mporary concerns - for to lerance and
und erstanding. I t describes the atti tudes and
the perso na lities of those w ho we re confronted
by Christ in the fa teful d ays before
Good Friday. We hea r of the strugg le for
po li tica l power in the jerusa lem of th at
time , we ga in insights into the jealousy o f
) ud as, the ambitiousness of Kaiphas , the
hi gh priest , and the callous indifference of
Pila te , the Roman procurator.
The very large cast is fortunate in having
its own rehear?al studio (a form er ci ty
hyd ro substation made avail able through
the courtesy of the City of Winnipeg) and
is bu sil y e ngaged in the many tas ks that are
necessary to bring about a good evening of
reli giOus theatre.
Ti ckets are available from members of t he
Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre, the cast and
crew, as well as: Haddon Ha ll Men 's Wear,
288 Kennedy Street, Ph. 942-6892; Indepe
ndent Furniture, 499 Notre Dame Avenue,
Ph. 77 5-4401; Rede kopp Lumbe r, 11 26
Henderson Highway, Ph. 668-4470.
Prozess Jesu
Das Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre gibt
bekannt, dass Uebungen fuer d as
naechste Buehnenstueck, ein zeitgemaesses,
religoeses Spiel, welches unter
anderem die Jahrhundertfeier der Mennoniten
und der Stadt Winnipeg foerdern
soli, jetzt im Gange sind.
Da wohl die verschjedenartigen Veranstaltungen
in diesem fuer die Mennoniten
so historisch wichtigem Jahr von
vorwiegend religoeser Art sind, wird ein
interessantes Spiel mit dem Tite l:
"Prozess Jesu" von Albert Fischel ins
Deutsche uebertragen, gebracht
Originaltext vom italienischen Schriftsteller
Diego Fabri. Die Auffuehrungen
finden am 15. und 16. November im
Playhouse Theatre statt.
Dieses Buehnenstueck ist eine hoechst
interessante und eigenartige Beschre ibung
der Ansichten und menschlichen
Schwaechen derer, die Christus in den
verhaengnisvollen Tagen kurz vor Karfrei
tag gegen ueberstanden. Wi r sehe n
die Machtbestrebungen, die sich in
Jerusalem damals abspielten; wir erkennen
die Eifersucht des Judas, den
Ehrgeizdes Hohenpreisters Kaiphas
und die grausame Gleichgueltigkeit des
Pilatus, des roemischen Prokurators.
16/ mennonite mirror / october 1974
, Die grosse Zahl del' Mitspieler uebt
im eigenen "Studio" (ei n leeres Hyd ro
Gebaeude, das die Stadt Wi nnipeg uns
freund li cherweise kostenlos zur Verfuegung
geste ll t ha t ), wo vie le Stunden
konzentrierter Uebung und Vorbereitung
stattfinden, UrTI einen guten Abend
deutscher, religoeser Unterhaltung zu
bringen.
Eintrittskarte n sind von Mitgliedern
des Winnipeg Me nnonite Theatre, Mitspi
elern, sowie folgende n F irrnen zu
kaufen: Haddon Hall Men's Wear, 288
Kennedy Street, Ph. 942-6892; I ndependent
Furniture, 499 Notre Dame
Avenue, Ph. 775-4401; Redekopp
Lumber, 1126 Hende rson Highway,
Ph. 668-4470.
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"Prozess Jesu"
(The Trial of Jesus)
Playhouse Theatre November 15, 16
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A Story of an Emigration
The f irst Mennonite settler, 10 MJnitoba
arrived in the summer of 1874. Thp Earth
is Round is the mov ing story of a young
girl and her fam il y who migrate f rom the
fertile steppes of Russia to the newly
opened "East Reserve" of Southern Manitoba.
The author, Margaret Epp, has managed
with rare ski ll to catch the feelings of joy
,and frustrations w hich these ear ly settlers
experienced.
Mi ss Epp was asked to write a juvenile
novel about the migration of the Mennonites
by the Board of Publications of the Mennonite
Brethre n Conference of Canada to help
celebrate the centen nial of the first arrival.
Gerhard Lohrenz , C h a irm an of the Mennonite
Centennial Committee of Manitoba,
says: The Earth is f, Winnipeg Iyrici, t and
journalist, wri tes: I could n't put t his book
down. It has everything . .. action, humor,
family and community strugg les, love and
tears .. :all wrapped up in the absorbing
talc of a Russian Mennonite community's
move to Mani toba in 1 874.
Vern Ratz laff, rrofessor at the Mennonite
Brethren College feels that: Margaret Epp,
prolific writer of c hildren's books,
• biographies and novels, has performed good
service in recreating for us scenes from our
past with mea ning for the present. mm
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An unofficial
language for all seasons
It was a delight this summer to hear Low I
German spoken almost everywhere we went.
Maybe the fact that we didn't go far nor to
m a ny places had something to do with it.
At Falcon Lake I was bopping a tennis ball
around with a friend one early evening in
July when the sweet sounds of Low German
wafted our way. I listened more intently
dn d discovered the words weren't nearly as
sweet as the sounds. Somebody had mi ssed
an east serve and was expressing himself in
colorful barnyard Plautdietsch.
I waited a few minutes a nd just when my
next-court neighbour had settled in to
receive a serve I called out: "Drasch ahm
eint! "
I shouldn't have said that. At the critical
moment he stopped, turned my way and
received . a blistering serve on the side of
the head. He staggered in a tight circle before
he dropped to one knee and babbled
in what sounded a lot like FI-ench, for almost
a full minute. But why not? It's a f ree
country. And anyway, French is one of our
official languages. If French is his language
for babbling, so be it.
And within a week The Frau and I spent
a day at our Roseau River acreage (that's
a term we've adopted because people around
Altona say the place is too small to be
called a farm, and too scruffy to rank as a
summer cottage), and there were a couple of
fishermen pulling in some pretty nice
pickerel. They were conversing in the
language of the nation - English this time -
until they hooked a five-pound pike.
A five-pound pike was just what they needed
to switch into the language of exuberance.
You guessed it, Low German.
"Gomps, Yunges, daut's ein yevoultya,
Harre DiesteU dei es dylepsrich! "
Till then The Frau and I'd been languishing
in the cool water at the edge of the stream,
but all this Low German aroused our
attention. Joining in the jubilation I called
out: "Hoult gout faust senst felia ye dem!"
Well, they almost didn't and almost did.
That is , they almost didn't hold tight and
almost lost him.
The fishermen recovered just in time to
grapple the wildly-thrashing fish to a safe
spot away from the river. They looked our
wav with a big grin, and announced that
this called for a Blue.
One of them - a 200 pounder -
scrambled up the ban k to their car and soon
came back with a large blue box filled with
stubby brown bottles. They drank from
them and the ir joy increased. I guess Low
German sprung on you from amongst the
reeds along the Roseau has that effect.
But the Low German sank lower and
lower and soon we headed back to the old
railway bunk car that is serving as summer
cottage.
In Fargo, North Dakota's largest shopping
centre there flourishes a western outfitting
store, thanks probably to a lot of people
like I who have delusions about capturing
some fine careless rapturing of western ness
by donn ing co'wboy garb. -
I had just been humiliated by a salesman
who guffawed like a genuine TV saloon
cowboy when I enquired about a size
17 shirt with 24 inch sleeves. It seems cowboys
aren't built like that, and, furthermore,
he made some wisecrack about my being
tapered the wrong way for a western-cut
shirt.
As I slunk sheepishly past the rack of
spurs I was suddenly overcome by an urge
to snap on a pair and leap on the back of
the offending salesman with a mighty "Hi­
Ho Silver, Away." As a self-appointed goodwill
a mbassador to "the land of the free
and the home of the brave" however I
fought down the te mpt a tion~.
'
But all was well a few minutes later.
While I was backing the family car off the
parking lot there came a friendly wave and
greeting: "Goundach, Panna." T here was one
of our Altona hockey players trailing a big
boat behind; off to Detroit Lakes or some
such exotic summer vacation haven.
Marvelous and varied are the effects of
hearing the mother tongue spoken in unexpected
places at unexpected times. mm
By Vic Penner
mennonite mirror / october 1974/17

Mennonite Schools 1974
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For those read ers interes ted in co mparing
registration at M enno n.ite schools and
schools such as the Winnipeg Bible College,
we publish figures currently ava ilable. Some
registrations are incomplete . 1973-74 enrollment
figures listed fo r the most part are
those wh i ch were ava ilable at the same time
last year. We mention Elim Christian
Centre of A ltona only to say that it is being
closed for a year due to lack of staff and
students. Would-be Bible school students
have been encouraged to consider Swift
Current Bible Institute as an alternative.
1974-1975 1973·1974
School Full time Full time
Canadian M ennoni te
Bi bl e Co liege 133 112
Gretna Mennonite
Collegia te I nsti tute 103 100
Mennoni te Brethren
Bible College 88 45
Mennoni te Brethren
Collegiate Institute 360 375
Steinbach Bible
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Wes tgate Collegiate
I nstitute 132 104
Winkler Bible Institute 140 130
Winnipeg Bible College 25 4 213
Events
Oct. 20: Cen tennial Hymnsing, Centennial
Concert Hall, Winnipeg.
Oct. 23: A Mennonite Piano Concerto,
Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg.
Oct. 27 - Oct. 29: Mennon ite Week at the
University of Winnipeg.
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Manitoba News I
faith,
Hon. Degrees Going
To three Mennonites
Five prominent Manitobans who have
distingui shed t hemselves in their respective
fields will be honored by the University of
Winnipeg at its annual Fall Convocation,
October 26.
Three of the recipients arc members of the
Mennonite community who have made im·
portant contributions to the ge neral life of
the province and to whom the University
pays tribute as part of the celebration of
the Mennonite Centenary this year:
Benjamin Horch, distinguished leader in
the field of choral and sy mphonic music,
and Helena Friesen Reimer, respected for
her outstanding service overseas with the
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Agency will receive honorary Doctor of Laws
degrees. The Rev. Gerhard Lohrenz, former
principal of the Mennonite Brethren Col·
legiate Institute and cha irman, the Manitoba
Mennonite H.i storical Society, is to receive
a Doctor of Divinity degree.
The Mennonite Mirror is pleased to
accompany this announcemen t wi,th a two·
part article on one of the recipients, Mr,
Ben Horch. In later issues we hope to
publish similar articles o n the two other
Mennonite recipient, of this honor, Interest·
ingly enough, an ear lier recipient of such
an honor from the University of Winnipeg
was Rev. J. H . ,.~nns, whose work is also
described in this iss ue.
Bethesda Hospit,\I, Steinbach . Minnie
Janzen succeeds Josephine Giesbrecht as
director of nursing service. Jo assumes a
new position as director of patient care at
the Concordia Hospital, Winnipeg.
Or. Clarence Hiebert, professor at Tabot
College, has completed and edited a recently
published book of documents relating to
the Mennonite migra tion to the prairie states
and provinces a ce ntury ago. Entitled
"Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need," the
volume includes the Manitoba "Schantz
List," some 1,400 family heads arriving in
Manitoba, 1874-1880.
Lawrence Klippenstein has been appointed
archivist for the Conference of Mennonites
in Canada. The History·Archives Committee
of the Conference has recently br,en restruc·
tured and will now report through the Board
of the Canadian Mennonite Bihle College.
Mark William Braun, Altona, received a
Scouting Certifi ca te for Meri tor io us Conduct
for hi s prese nce of mind and quick action
in rescuing three year old Anthony Bergen
from the waters of the Big Whiteshell.
"Tante Anna" Vogt, well known kinder·
garten teacher, celebrated her ninety·first
birthday on September 16, a t the Bethania
Home in Winnipeg.
Twenty-seven enter MCC service
Twenty-seven persons began voluntary ser·
vice ass ignments under the Mennonite
Central Committee following orientation
at Akron during the first week of August.
The group included the following young
people from Manitoba:
Don and Lorraine Isaak have begun a one·
year term of service with MCC in Cave City,
Ky. Don is serving as a teacher and Lorraine
as a secretary. Don received a B.Sc. in
chemistry from the University of Manitoba.
Don is the son of Frank and Irma Isaak,
Winnipeg. Lorraine is the daughter of Albert
and Mary Loewen, Steinbach, Man. The
Isaaks are members of River East Mennonite
Brethren Church, Winnipeg.
Judy Doell has begun a one-year term of
service with MCC in Dixville, Quebec. She
is serving as a child care worker in a home
for retarded children. "I want to put my
working through love, into a pri\c ti cal
experience," says Judy. Judy attended Winnipeg
Bible College. She is the daughter of
John and Dora Doell, Horndean, Man., and
J mem ber of Rosenfeld Bergthaler Mennoni t.e
Ch urch, Rosenfeld.
Ruth Durksen has begun a one·year term
of service with MCC in Dixville, Quebec,
as a child care worker in a home for retard ed
children. She is the daughter of Rev. Martin
and Kaethe Durksen, Winnipeg, Man., and a
member of Elmwood Mennonite Brethren
Church, Winnipeg.
Ken and Linda Warkentin have begun a
two· year term of service with MCC in
Dixville, Quebec. Ken is serving as a cottage
coordinator and Linda will begin an En.
vironmental Educational Program with
retarded children. Ken received a certificate
in social services from Red RiverCommunity
College, Winnipeg. Linda received a diploma
in elementary education from Elim Bible
School. Ken is the son of Peter and Sarah
Warkentin, Morden, Man., and a member of
Bethel Bergthaler Mennonite Church
Winkler. Linda is the daughter of Jake and
Nettie Gerbrandt, Lowe Farm, Man.
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Debbie Fast has begun a one-year term of
se rvice with MCC in Winnipeg. She is.
serving as a child care worker in Marymound
School for Girls. Debbie received a B.R.E.
in Christian education from Ontario Bible
College. She is the daughter of Clarence and
Frieda Fast, Steinbach, Man., and a me mber
of Steinbach Evange li cal Mennonite Brethren
Church.
Trudy Wiebe has begun a one-year .term
of service with MCC in Manitoba. She is
serving as a secretary-bookkeeper at the
Ma nitoba Office in Winnipeg. Trudy is the
daughter of Henry Wiebe , Winnipeg, and a
member of Sargent . Avenue Mennonite
Church.
Rudolf W. Dyck. 34, from Winnipeg, Manitoba,
has joined the Goshen College, Indiana
, faculty this fall as a vi siting lecturer in
business. In addition to hi s undergraduate
teaching duties he will plan bus iness seminars
and weekend continuing education confcrences
in business . Dyck is a native
Canadian. He graduated from the University
of Manitoba a nd received a master's in
business admin;stration f rom the University
of Toronto. He is currently vice-president
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Der Alte Friedrich
Erinnerungen 8US meiner Kindheit
von Helene Janzen
Der alte Friedrich lag im Sterben ....
Friedrich war Nachtwaechter meines
Heimatdorfes Altonau, an der Molotschna.
Jeden Abend ab 11 Uhr verli,~ss
er das kleine Ziegelhaus an der Mittelstrasse,
das "Spritzhaus," welches
neben Friedrichs Wohnraum und winziger
Kueche noch einen kleinen Raum
mit vergittertem Fenster besass, fuer
etwaige unliebsame Vorfaelle. Dort
stand auch die alte verstaubte Handfeuerspritze
des Dorfes. - Es war aber
keine Schenke im Dorf und so blieb
Friedrich ungestoert als einziger Bewohner
des kleinen Hauses am Mittelweg,
der Volksschule gegenueber.
Der alte Friedrich wanderte jede
Nacht, mit einer grossen hoelzernen
Klapper bewaffnet, beide Seiten der
breiten langen Strasse des Dorfes entlang.
Ein Gewehr trug er nicht bei
sich, obwohl er kein wehrloser Mennonit
war. Nein, er war nicht wehrlos:
ein verblasstes Bild an seiner Stuber}
. wand zeigt ihn uns als jungen strammen
preussischen Soldaten, der urn die
Jahrhundertwende im Heer gestanden
hatte, nach seiner Getangennahme aber
im russischen Zarenreich geblieben war.
Jetzt war er alt geworden. Seine
hohe Gestalt ein wenig gebeugt, mit
weissern Bart und schuetterem -Haar
bewachte er nun jeden Hot - mit
besonderes treuer Sorgfalt aber die
Gebaeude meines Vaters. Er war mein­
.en Eltern sehr zugetan.
Um Mitternacht hoerten die Bewohner
Altonaus zwar nicht dasWaechterhorn
die Melodie: "Hoert ihr Herren
lasst's euch sagen, denn die Uhr hat
12 geschlagen" - blasen. Es war ja auch
keine Turmuhr da, kein Rathaus. Aber,
ob der Schneesturm tobte, oder die
bluehenden Akazien ihren Fruehlingsduft
in sternklarer Nacht verstroemten,
- Friedrich schritt die sehr stille unbeleuchtete
Strasse des Dorfes entlang.
Alles ruhte um diese Zeit, Mensch und
auch Vieh. Wer aber nicht schlafen
konnte, oder wer beim Nachtlaempchen
am Krankenbett wachte, hoerte
den eintoenigen Ton der hoelzernen
Klapper unseres treuen Nachtwaechters.
So manche Nacht, wenn ich nicht
einschlafen konnte, hoerte ich die
22/ mennonite mirror! october 1974
hoelzerne Klapper und den langsamen
bedaechtigen Schritt sich unserem Hof
nahen. An jeder Tuer wurde geruettelt,
jedes Schloss unseres Wohnhauses und
der anderen Gebaeude wurdesorgfaeltig
untersucht. So manchmal klopfte es
dann am Schlafzimmerfenster der
Eltern und Friedrich rneldete: ;'Herr
Dueck, die Tuer am Speicher ist nicht
verriegelt!" Mein Vater dankte, ob er
aber aufstand und die Tuer abschloss
- ich hab's nie gemerkt. ... Der
treue Waechter aber 109 befriedigt
weiter.
Eines morgens lag der alte Friedrich
gefesselt unter einem Busch und die
grosse doppelte Bohlentuer samt der
ummauerten Ziegelschicht eines Vorbaues
am Geschaeftshaus lag aufgebrochen
am Boden. Weiter waren die
Diebe nicht gekommen. Mein Vater
befreite den alten Friedrich von seinen
Fesseln und war dankbar, denn Freidrich
war unverletzt geblieben .
Friedrich hatte keine Familie, er lebte
ei nsam. Mit grossem Interesse betrachteten
wir Kinder jedesmal sein Stuebchen,
wenn unsere Mutter uns mit etwas
Gutern aus ihrer Kueche hinup.ber
schickte. Es war da ein einfaches Bett,
ein Tisch aus schwerem Holz - ein
wenig verschnitzt, - ein derber Stuhl,
eine Kiste - aber fasziniert betrachteten
wir jedesmal die Waende! Sie
waren vom alten Friedrich mit einer
Tapete bekleidet worden, wie wir sie
nie gesehen hatten. Lauter kleine vier-
eckige Konfektumhuellungen der allerverschiedensten
Art waren sorgfaeltig
aneinander geklebt und bodeckten aile
vier Waende! Nur ueber demTisch
hingen einige vergi Ibte Photografien
und alte ausgeschnittene Zeitungsbilder
die einer vergangenen nur ihm bokannten
Kriegsperiode zugehoerten.
An den Festtagen, Weihnachton, Ostern
und Pfingsten, stollte sich der alte
Friedrich schon frueh in unserem
Hause ein, wuenschte meinen Eltern
ei n gesegnetes Fest und wurde dann
zur Fest mahlzeit an den gedeckten
Familientisch geladen. Danach verliess
er beschenkt und dank bar unser
Haus. Uns Kinder behandelte er stets
ein wenig herablassend, aber ernst
fruendlich.
Eines· Tages lag Friedrich schwer erkrankt
zu Bett. Meine Mutter gi ng
hin mit einer Schuessel starker heisser
Huehnersuppe. Sie rief eine andere
Frau zur Hi Ife. Der Kranke wurde
gereinigt, gepflegt, aber seine Kraefte
versagten, der alte Friedrich lag im
Sterben ....
Nun war er Lutherischen G laubens
und verlangte das Abendmahl. Er war's
zufrieden, dass ein mennonitischer
Prediger es ihm reichen wollte. Aber
nun - der grosse Schreck - der alte
Friedrich wollte kein Suender sein!
Nein, er haette keine Suende begangen,
er fuehle sich nicht schuldig! "Aber
- wir sind doch aile Suender ," wurde
ihm hilfreich zugesprochen. 0 nein, er
brauche nicht urn Vergebung zu bitten
"ein Suender bin ich nicht!" - Aber
er glaubte an Gott und so wurde ihm
das Abendmahl gereicht. Sicherlich
war er vor Gatt desselben wuerdig, und
in Frieden entschlief er.
Keine Angehoerigen waren zu benachrichtigen.
Meine Eltern und einige
andere Bewohner des Dorfes beg leiteten
ihn zur letzten Ruhe, auf den
Friedhof meines Heimatdorfes
Altonau.
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GOTTES FUEHRUNG:
ZUR 25 JAEHRIGEN EINWANDERUNG
Von weither machten wir die "grosse Reise,
Die man auf Erden wohl nur selten macht;
Zuerst aus Rand und Band, aus dem Geleise
Der Bombentreffer . auch bei finstrer Nacht!
Undendlich weit erschien die schlechte Strasse,
Auf der es ungewollt zum Stocken kam;
Und hungerleidend starrt die Menschenmasse
Zum Heimatort, von dem sie Abschied nahm.
Und weiter geht's . ein Heldentum im Ringen,
Ob riesengross der Heimat·T renn ungs·Schmerz.
Das Westwaerts·Ziehen wird mit Gott gelingen,
Doch unterwegs bricht manches brave Herz ... .
Wer nicht erlebt die Schrecken jener Tage,
Der ahnt es nicht, wie furchtbar weh es tut,
Wenn die Familie zerreisst vom Schlage
Des wuesten Krieges ungeheurer Wut!
Das Bruder·Volk, so oft scr.on voll Erbarmen,
Es nimmt die vielgeprueften Dulder auf
Und teilt ihr Letztes mit den vielen Armen;
Zu Ende scheint zunaechst der Fluechtlingslauf.
Gar Viele, die schon muehevoll entflohen;
Sie mllssten unter starkem Druck zurueck;
Und unter schwerer Arbeit, hartem Drohen,
Veri oren sie ihr still erhofftes Glueck;
Sie sind aus freien Laendern bald verschwunden,
In viele Himmelsrichtungen zerstreut;
Doch haben brieflich Viele sich gefunden
Und Wenige von Angesicht erfreut.
Doch, denkt man weiter ueber Zukunftszeiten,
Die in dem Lebensstrom sich aufgetan:
Das Land der unbegrenzten Moegl ichkeiten
Wird Vielen eine neue Lebensbahn!
Und wir, die wir' ein Wunder· hergekommen
In dieses unermesslich reiche Land;
Hat unser Volk hier Gottes Ruf vernommen?
Und reichen den Geschwistern wir die Hand?
Wir helfen viel, doch gilt es mehr zu schaffen;
Die Naechstenliebe ist die erste Pflicht.
Wer treulich wirkt und braucht des Meisters Waffen, Eph. 6, 16 & 17
Den stellt der Vater nicht vor's Weltgericht!
Vor Gott, dem Herrn, ist niemand einzustufen,
Ob hierzulande oder weit verbannt;
Zum Liebesdienst sind aile aufgerufen: Gal. 5,10
Wohl uns, wenn Gottes Fuehrung wir erkannt!
Das Danken soli man niemals unterlassen,
Obwohl die Sonne auch nicht immer scheint;
Vielmehr das Gute s1:ets aufs neu erfassen,
Mit Gott, Der uns in Seinem Sohn vereint!
- von Peter Kroeger
The Church, Industry and Business Asso·
ciation (CIBA) will hold its annua l weekend
meeting in Winnipeg, October 4 to 6, accord·
ing to Delmar Good, executive secretary.
Launched in Chicago in October, 1969,
CIBA will celebrate the completion of five
years of program. The fall converence,
focusing this year on the theme The Human
Side of Business, is open to all interested
persons.
Delbert Wiens will be featured at the
Friday evening banquet, October 4. Dr.
Wiens is associate professor of humanities at
Pacific College, and will bring the opening
challenge on the conference theme. His
past writings include New Wineskins for Old
Wine, and From the Village to the City.
Saturday conference sessions will be both
theological and practical in content. Marlin
Miller, lecturer at the Associated Mennonite
Biblical Seminaries in Elkhart, Indiana, will
present the opening Bible study on The
Meaning of Work for the Christian. Dr.
Miller has recently returned from Paris where
he served under MCC and the Mennonite
Board of Missions si nee 1968.
An Introduction to Management by Ob·
jectives will also be presented in the morning
session. This approach to manage ment
consciously focuses on the goals of an
organization, and the views of those goals
held by managers and employees. Benefits
of better working relations, increased job
satisfaction, as well as increased productivity
may result from improved communication
and perception of the goals to be achieved.
Following a luncheon on Saturday will be
a short business session, and then a major
study session on Organi zational Dynamics
and Conflict Resolution. This session will
focus on the question: how can one help
to resolve disagreements in an organization
in a positive, productive and Christian way.
Organizational Development Consultants,
a team associated with Oaklawn Center,
Elkhart, Indiana, will plan the input and
case study for this afternoon.
The conference concludes on Sunday with
a session of sharing by Mennonite business·
men, coffee and rolls, and a closing worship
service. The final message will be presented
by Dr. Henry Krahn, president, Mennonite
Brethren Bible College.
The conference goal is to bring the Gospel's
concern for people into organizational
structures. Although CI BA was begun by
Mennonite businessmen, this session should
be relevant to others such as leaders in
churches and educational institutions as well.
Everyone is welcome to attend, whether
members of CI BA or not. Complete infor·
mation and reservation forms may be obtain·
ed from either Delmar Good, Executive
Secretary, CIBA, 1700 S. Main, Goshen,
IN 46526, or from CIBA, c/o Mennonite
Foundation Canada, 201·1483 Pembina
Highway , Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2C7
(or call MCC, Winnipeg).
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