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From: "Angelika Kammerer" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Brethren dress
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:56:59 +0000
In-Reply-To: <003b01c6ece6$d9c0c400$50d2010a@Main>


Hi,

WOW!!!
I wanted to thank all of you for this fload of information, links and this
wonderfull discussion about the dress code.

I still do not have an idea which religion this would be in Germany, but I
confess that I don´t know much about religious history at all. But now I got
a hole bunch of ideas where to start looking.

Thanks.
Angelika

>From: "Jane Summers" <>
>Reply-To:
>To: <>
>Subject: Re: [BRE] Brethren dress
>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:39:25 -0500
>
>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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