God Uses Ink

Alternate Titles

• Classified list of Mennonite Publishing House publications, 1908-1957
• Mennonite Publishing House publications, 1908-1957

Description

Mennonites have had a strong sense of historic consciousness and equally great faith in the power of Christian literarure. God Uses Ink, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Mennonite publishing House (Herald Press), takes the reader behind the scenes of history and into the inner sanctum of a church publishing house. This book traces Mennonite publishing from colonial times through the founding and development of the Mennonite Publishing House from 1908 to 1958. Against this backdrop of heritage the writer interprets the present work of publishing. Organized publishing for the Mennonite Church is treated here for the first time. The story is told in the perspective of general religious publishing in America. People devoted to the production and distribution of Christian literature will benefit from this book. Writers, editors, sales workers, and printers, as well as missionaries and pastors, will discover pertinent sections. The volume provides the reader not only with a record of periodical, curriculum, book and tract publishing but also with an understanding of and an orientation to the task. A chain of sentiments, incidents, and memories of hard work performed by past and present employees forms a body of institutional "folk knowledge" and a loyalty worth preserving. Finally the book sums up the impact of the House not only within the group but far beyond the confines of denominational lines.

First Sentence

Literature is not only the voice of the church, it is an intimate and essential part of its life.

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