. The olive branch of peace and good will to ment anti-war history of the Brethren and Mennonites, the peace people of the South, during the civil war, 1861-1865 . er going to Amwell, NewJersey; others along the Schuylkill into the adjacentcounties westward, then south through Maryland intothe Valley of \^irginia and Tennessee, and later intothe .agricultural sections of the great West. Thehand of Providence may be seen in it all. As it waswith the infant church at Jerusalem, when by the handof persecution the brethren then were scattered abroadand they went everywhere preaching the Word(Acts
. The olive branch of peace and good will to ment anti-war history of the Brethren and Mennonites, the peace people of the South, during the civil war, 1861-1865 . er going to Amwell, NewJersey; others along the Schuylkill into the adjacentcounties westward, then south through Maryland intothe Valley of \^irginia and Tennessee, and later intothe .agricultural sections of the great West. Thehand of Providence may be seen in it all. As it waswith the infant church at Jerusalem, when by the handof persecution the brethren then were scattered abroadand they went everywhere preaching the Word(Acts 8: 4), so our Brethren on account of persecu-tion left Germany and came to America, and followingthe tide of emigration have been scattered over someof the best agricultural sections of the United States,and wherever they went they planted churches whichunder Gods blessing increased with the developmentof the country. We now pause to consider the question, • What Will a Nonresistant People Do in TimeOF War? This question comes from many parts of our home-land, from Europe, and from far-away India. Thesolution we will find in the experience of our own peo-. HISTORICAL DATA. 35 pie, the Brethren, who in time of peace and in timeof war have been non-resistants. We know not whatGod may have in store for us in the future, the pastat least is secure; and as he has been with us in thepast, we trust him for all that is to come. It may in a general way be said that the spirit of apeople may be seen in their representative men. Histo-ry brings to our view many examples of noble menand women, and to prove the sincerity, piety andvirtue of a body of Christian men and women, we cando it no better than by giving some illustrious ex-amples. Historical Data Card No. One. Harleysville, Pa., Dec. 20, 1905. Daniel Hays, Broadway, Va. Dear Brother:—I did not write the article you speakof, but I may have furnished the data, as Mrs. Rosen-berger has been to see me a number of times. Con-cerning
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