Religion: Gatherings for God

For active workers in U. S. churches, warm weather annually brings conventions and conferences at which the ways of doing God's work on earth are discussed at length. Livelier than usual were these curtain-raisers of fast week:

Dunkards, On the big Adam Blocher farm near Delphi, Ind. met 4,000 Dunkards, or Old Order German Baptist Brethren, in the 195th general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's...

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