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From: "Jane Summers" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Brethren dress
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:39:25 -0500
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I forgot to mention that in the book "The Old Brethren" there is a picture
of an elderly woman in old dress. That woman is Leah Aurand Eshelman
Murray, my ggg grandmother.
Jane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Summers" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [BRE] Brethren dress


>I am a member of the Church of the Brethren in Lanark, IL, in the
> northwestern part of the state. In my church they no longer where the
> prayer coverings although some do for Love Feast. For 17 years I lived in
> N. Ft. Myers, FL and was a member of that church. Our largest attendance
> was during the winter and at that time there were quite a number that were
> dressed in plain dress. Most of them were from PA but a few from the
> midwest. We did have some local members that dressed plain.
> Jane Summers
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doss, Andy" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Brethren dress
>
>
>>I am not a member of the Church of the Brethren anymore, but I was for
>> about 30 years, I was also very pro-active in the district youth
>> cabinet, church camp, and Sunday school teaching. At my old church, Mt.
>> Hermon COB, it is a very modernized congregation. However, there are a
>> few women there who wear their prayer cap every Sunday. Personally, I
>> always thought that was pretty cool. I consider it a pretty conservative
>> congregation, but without the adherence to dress codes. They have a
>> praise music band and everything.
>> I am not sure what that previous remark meant about not being a
>> confederate, I am a lifelong Virginian too, but I won't ever shy away
>> from my confederate roots.
>> My great-great-grandfather and great-grandfather, the well-known
>> Brethren preachers William Elkanah "Cain" Lackey and Posey Lester Nolen,
>> were both sons of Confederate soldiers.
>>
>> I am not a "confederate" per se, but comments like that (whether
>> intentional or not) attach an unnecessary stigma to a part of a very
>> real southern heritage.
>>
>> Andy S. Doss
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Emmert F. Bittinger
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:54 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [BRE] Brethren dress
>>
>> Regarding contemporary Brethren (Ch. of the Brethren) in Virginia.
>> Some of
>> the rural Brethren women still wear their prayer caps, but it is almost
>> always the older women, not usually the younger ones. There is not
>> church
>> ruling that now requires it, and there fore now church pressure to wear
>> it.
>> It should be noted that there is a conservative group within the
>> denomination called the "Brethren Revival Fellowship" and they may still
>>
>> expect women to wear the prayer caps. It is still pretty common in the
>> conservative churches of Penna. I have not seen a Brethren women with a
>>
>> cape for many decades.
>> Also note, there is an ulltra conservative group, not a part of the
>> Ch
>> of the Brethren (they split off in 1880), that still requires men and
>> women
>> to wear "the garb" including capes and prayer caps for the women and
>> plain
>> suits and no tie for the men. They are a very small group, but they
>> still
>> hold their "Annual Meetings", some of which I have attended as a
>> spectator.
>> The attendance to these meetings is around 5,000. They use automobiles.
>> I am a Ch of the Brethren member, now in my 80s and a life long
>> Virginian (not a Confederate!!).
>> Emmert Bittinger
>>
>>
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