After reading about the 250th anniversary of the Codorus Church of the Brethren in Springfield Township recently, York Daily Record/Sunday News editor Jim McClure had some thoughts about why so few Brethren, Mennonites or Amish settled in York County in the late 1700s and 1800s, preferring to stay east of the Susquehanna River in Lancaster farm country.
Anabaptists got their name when they organized because they denied the scriptural validity of infant baptism, baptizing adult converts or believers instead. They focused not on proper theology or liturgy but on godly living based on the Sermon on the Mount.
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