Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-05-20
TIE BRETHREN MEETING.

IIEs-THE GARDEN OF GETHsEAASE-
TEACHING OF CHRIST AND PErER-
THE FIGHTING oHRIsTIAS-oUEs-
TIoS OF THE TRINITY
JOHN HUss.
TIE PEACE cHRIsTIAS-xEso sIMo-
SIs-wnLIAM PENS-ALEx-
AMBER MOCK.
Preaching will begin in the Bunker etab-
ernacle," erected on the farm of NJ. K. Bes-
hore, four miles east of this place, on Fri |
day afternoon, May %, 1885, at 2 O'Clock !
P. NJ. The seating capacity of the building |
is for 5000 people, all necessary attendant |
buildings for aweek's encampment OF fifteen |
hundred delegates have been erected near
by the meeting house. The buildings are
Of the plainest kind and In appearance re-
mind one of the Granger's quarters near
Philadelphia during the Centennial show of
1876. The Dunkers are not show people
but are noted for their plainness and love of
both OF which characteristics
are plainly TO be seen in and about the
meeting buildings. Though the meeting
will be pened on Friday number Of
DELEGATIONS
when it is expected that the many hundred
delegates, and thousands OF visitors will be
present. A great many are expected from
west OF the mountains, for Pennsylvania was
thriving commonwealth, and bunker re-
hgious center when the west was sshowIing
wilderness.
THE DUNKERs
are non-combatant people, and are akin
to, but younger than the Aennonites and
Quakers. They are not allowed to engage
in law suits, or 10 engage in war, indeed it
may be said that they go long distance
into the past for their non-combatant ere ed +,
to the night scene in the garden OF Gethse-
name, when Judas gave his Lord and Mas
ter the kiss of betrayal, and when Peter
drew his sword and struck off an ear of one
of the guards. Christ,s teaching was in
wonderful contrast to that of merchan-
table Judas, and to that of fighting Peter,
when he took up the smitten ear of the SOL
der, replaced and healed it. In the scene
enacted under the glare of the torch lights
in the arden that night are found the two
germs of Christianity that have given to the
world the non-combatant and
THE FIGHTING CHRISTIAN.
In the first ages of the church, Christians
were non combatants like their Master was
in the garden, when Judas and Philip play
ed their dramatic and thrilling parts, and
as was Christ before the Court Of Pontius
Plate, but after Constantine united the
Church with the Roman state, the Peter
type of Christian came to the front in such
numbers that they began TO fight among
themselves, and for the period of hundred
years they fought to settle the one question
OF the Trinity. In the garden spots Of
Christianity in Asia and Africa rivers of hu-
man blood were shed in the contest, and
from that time on the trini tartan christian
carried the banner of the cross and the
sword of Rome. In the lapse of time
Christianity was driven out OF Asia and
Africa where il had houfished with a yigor
that is a delight TO the believer in the teach
ing OF Christ-The resurrection and the life
to come-If Romanlsm and Christianity
were swallowed up and lost in Asia and AZ
rica not 50 in Europe. The Roman sword
propagatod it in every place that it held do
minion II the people would not accept it
peacefully, but the christian church of
Rome became too intolerant. Teachers,
and preachers arose aud denounced the
practices of church people and church in
tolerance. The orthodox church seemed to
be hot bed of strife and so intolerant had
it become that it ex-commnnicatcd or exc
Gated all prominent dissenters. The sword
of Peter stopped not at the cutting of of
cars. The Christian Council Of Constance
condemned John Huss, a protestant, for
teaching and preaching heresy, and he was
burned at the stake in July 1915, his burn
ing aroused the gallant German people, they
protested il arms, war OF fifteen years fol-
lows, out of which the orthodox church
came victorious and pro:esIanism seemed
dead enough. 1t WAS fourteen hundred
years since Christ and the Christian Religion
had given to the world as keea a sword as
the sword Of Paganism. Teachers realized
that the way things bad been going the
''peace OF the church, was a misnomer, in-
deed myth, and one hundred years after
Huss, was developed.
TIE PEACE CHRISTIAN.
The stunning effects of the John Huss
war lasted one hundred years, when henno
Simonis developed the peaceful christian
creed that was cxemplifed in the garden
when Christ took the smitten ear aud re-
placed it on the head of the Roman soldier.
Simonis was born in Friesland, adjoining
Holland, in 1895, he was a Catholic priest,
but united with the Baptists, and taught in
addition To the doctrine of the Baptists,
that Christians should not hold civil office,
'i3t NV! e"Oui' iiol OS2i Ai1AS, snouui not
take an oath, and should not go to court.
Martin Luther came about the same time,
his Christianity was of the Peter sword
kind and in one hundred years after the two
reformers, the Lutherans and Catholic
christians engaged in the greatest war that
has ever taken place in Eu1op e, it began in
1913, ard continued till l64S. 1t was
fought on German soil, and the Catholic
power came out of the fight humiliated and