The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-29

must be a separate immersion for
each of the Persons of the Trinity;
they have as their ''love-feast'' what
others believe to be the passover,
holding that the Savior instituted the
supper as we'll as the bread and
wine They are rigid adherents of
/ the doctrine of non-resistance, and
absolutely refused to bear arms on
either side during the civil war, al
though they were, with the Quakers,
the original opponents of slavery.
One Man Captured Hundreds.
The south did not understand them
as well as the north, and sought to
compel them to fight. Some of them
were arrested, taken to the front,
and the attempt made to force them
to become soldiers. But they replied,
uniformly, that they would prefer to
be shot for refusing arms rather
than to bear them. Their intrepid
bravery in facing death rather than
violate principle won high regard
from the southern cavaliers, and they
were sent back home. An effort was
then made to secure their exemp-
ton from service. Pending this, some
hundred of the Dunkers and Mennon-
ties started from the very county in
which the annual conference is now
being held, to go to "Yankeedom"
as they called it, where they hoped
to be free from liability to conscrip-
! ton.
| When in the Businesses of the AL
| legheny mountains they were accost-
ed by single confederate scout, and
by him marched to Staunton without
a hand being raised in an attempt
| to escape. They were thence taken
to Richmond and imprisoned in
Thunder Castle" Some of the
members of the confederate congress
argued that they would not fight be-
cause they were on the wrong side.
Their champion replied that he who
had lived among them all his life
needed no evidence that they would
not fight, no matter what the cir
cumstances, but that if others did
need such evidence they had it in the
fact that single scout had turned
| back enough men to make two full
companies without an effort being
made to oppose him. They were fin
ally exempted from military service
on the payment of a fine of $500 per
man. The well-to-do paid for them
selves and for their poorer brethren.
Two Kinds of towards.
! It may not be generally known but
there are perhaps 100000 able
bodied men exempted from member
ship in the unorganized militia of the
United States. Among them are the
Dunkers. When the bill was pend
! ing for the reorganization of the
militia, some six years ago, it pro-
vided that all able-bodied men should
be members of the unorganized mill
tia At the instance of Senators Mar
tin and Beveridge, all members of
churches which profess the principle
of non-resistance were exempted from
military service. 1t was feared by
some that this would serve as cloak
for those who wanted to escape mill
tary service, but the experience Of
the civil war was that the man who
was too much of a coward to go to
the front was too much of moral
coward to identify himself with these
churches.
/ The Dunkers had hard time dur
ing the Revolution. The cOlonists
did not understand them, and they
were unpopular because every man
was needed in the effort to establish
independence. Christopher Saur, who
printed the first English Bible on
American soil, was one of their men,
bers His printing Office was ruined,
} and his private fortune wrecked.
The profession of this doctrine of
nOn-resistance goes further with them
! than the refusal to bear arms. They
do not believe in going to law, and ii
/ the legal profession had to live on
, fees derived from the Dunkers il
, would be poor living. Their way OF
: settling differences among themselves
| is first to confer privily. If the two
, cannot adjust their differences the
: offended member takes two witnesses
with him. that in the mouths of two
5 or three the truth may be established
: If satisfaction Is not obtained, the
matter is taken to the church, ant
t If the wrong be not righted by the
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