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The Early Anabaptists

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The tailor's trade was ouly permitned o fur as it was necCfary fnr clothina. but so iar as t or any otber tradc ruiuistered te lusury, pride and arrogaune it was abjure$ as "rootless work. ' Thus they could uot be goldsmiths, sUversmiths or jewolers. Nor would tlw make any weapon of war. The trades chiefly pursued by the Moraviau Anabnptists wcre clothrnaJcing, cutlery, naillkeeping and shoenm'fing. In the fields and in the woods and in the vineyards mauy found healthv and happy oocupation. Others worköa as carpenters, joiners, cabinet makers, masons, blacksmiths, cartwrights, tanners, saddlers, potters - there was, ia f act, hardJy auseful trade the communlties did not practice. Strange to sav. nothing is said of printing. Probahlv they fpared to attract the notice of their imperia] persecutora. The Moravian Anabaptista, very different from those who all over the Gerruan empire and elsewhere commenced the movement. followed the model held up in the words, "He shall not cry, nor lift up., or cause his voica to be ■ heard in the streets. " They spoko of themselves óx "the quiet in the land. " In clothmaking and cntlcry they obtained such repute that at their final expulsión the anthorities made special efforts to infuse some kind of energy into "the Christians, " who hitherto had not been able to compete with the Anabaptist cloth workers. It was even proposed to invite Dutch cloth workers into the country. But it was by "good work" and the overcoming of adverse conditious that the Anabaptist commnnities had attained their eminunce. -

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News