of the Reformed Mennonite Church By WILMER J. ESHLEMAN Much historical data have been recorded during the dim and distant years of the past regarding churches, their leaders, doc- trines and customs. As Lancaster County includes in its borders the site of the organization of the denomination known

never affiliated themselves under the leadership of Menno, but rather looked to Von Hochman �for spiritual guidance ; although not believing in formal organi- zation of religion in any form, Alexander Mack of Hesse Kassel organized them in 1708 into what we know today as the "Church of the Brethren

spot such as this that exists about three miles south of Willow Street, Pennsylvania, in Pequea Township, known as the Byerland Valley, that salutes a rising knoll upon which is perched the Byerland Mennonite Church in simplicity surrounded by a royal grove of maple trees. This is an historical