Reflection "Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love and reverence toward Almighty God… What a Utopia, what a Paradise would this region be." - wrote John Adams in his diary on February 22, 1756 (33 years before the Prussian Mennonites began to respond to the Manifesto of Catherine II)

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