Religion: Plain People

True, believing Christians are as sheep in the midst of wolves. . . .

So, in 1524, wrote Conrad Grebel, leader of the earnest little band of Swiss Bible students who later became known as Mennonites. Today their descendants—the plain-dressing, plainspeaking, plain-thinking Mennonites of the U.S. and Canada—are still conscious of Leader Grebel's warning. Last week they were doing their best to get some of their brother sheep to safer pastures.

To 10,000 displaced Mennonites in the U.S. and British zones of Germany, they are sending a chartered ship. The D.P.s, mostly of Dutch...

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