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Old 10-28-2007, 05:39 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Anabaptist Mennonites
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Old 10-28-2007, 05:45 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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There is a town named Smyrna Falls in ME??

Smyrna Mills. That is where the Amish/Mennonite have their store, mill, and everything else. They are a real good place to buy the metal roofing as well. Very nice folks.
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Old 10-28-2007, 05:52 PM
 
Location: Corinth, ME
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I gotta ask: what does Anabaptist mean?
This is a group of Christian denominations with roots in the Radical Reformation of early 16th century Europe, when they left the institutional church to seek a life of simplicity, brotherhood, and nonviolence.

The Amish, Mennonites, Bretheren, Hutterites, come to mind... "plain people" who were originally (mockingly) called Anabaptists on account of their rejection of the doctrine of infant baptism.
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Old 10-28-2007, 06:05 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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Our modern day Baptists came from them.
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Old 10-28-2007, 07:10 PM
 
Location: Corinth, ME
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Our modern day Baptists came from them.
NOW you tell me! <g> When I was attending a Baptist church in CO, I asked everyone (including the preacher) about the history of the sect and they could or would not tell me anything more recent than Biblical times. I kinda wondered, as they also do not practice infant baptism, unlike the Presbyterian church that my folks attended.
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Old 10-28-2007, 08:05 PM
 
Location: Maine
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There are many churches that don't practice infant baptism. I really admire the abilities of the people that live the simple life, I don't know if I could do it.
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Old 10-28-2007, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Thanks for the explanations!
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Old 10-28-2007, 08:29 PM
 
Location: Durham NC-for now
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Default lovemaine, starwalker we can caravan to Maine!

Looks like the lot of us are making our exodus from NC to Maine. My relatives in NE tell me all their friends are moving down here!

I'll be interested to get up to N Maine and visit some of the Anabaptist communities Forest has spoken of. I also found it intersesting when FB mentioned Cutler. My great-grandfather was from Cutler, but was orphaned and moved to Eastport to work in the canneries at the age of 8 or 9 I believe. I have never been to Cutler and was interested to see the population is around 200.
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