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Lay not up...Ernie wrote:You can be glad. Amazon price is now $125. I'm guessing a bunch of people are trying to sell quick before theirs is worth $75.Hats Off wrote:I just sold mine for $600 Canadian less ebay and postage so about $500 Canadian after costs. I don't think having the original edition is worth that much to me.
That was me having a bit of fun with the "price bot" that another seller was using to price their copy on Amazon. Every time I would lower the price on mine, their bot would automatically lower their price to just under my price.Ernie wrote:You can be glad. Amazon price is now $125. I'm guessing a bunch of people are trying to sell quick before theirs is worth $75.Hats Off wrote:I just sold mine for $600 Canadian less ebay and postage so about $500 Canadian after costs. I don't think having the original edition is worth that much to me.
Wow. We got "The Earth is the Lord's" many years ago and I can't believe the book is worth that much. Nevertheless we won't part with it as it has been a very valuable resource over the years.Ernie wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 7:18 am The Earth is the Lord's by John L. Ruth
I think we had a thread on this book before but I can't find it on MennoNet. Maybe it was on MennoDiscuss???
Anyhow, I understood that someone was going to do a reprint of this book. But it looks like only a few copies are available for $500-900. Did the reprint never happen?
I know what you mean. How else would you find out that in a 1726 Love Feast of ex-Mennonite followers of Dunker Conrad Beissel, they had such an intense theological argument that a man DIED?Grace wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 8:29 amWow. We got "The Earth is the Lord's" many years ago and I can't believe the book is worth that much. Nevertheless we won't part with it as it has been a very valuable resource over the years.Ernie wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 7:18 am The Earth is the Lord's by John L. Ruth
I think we had a thread on this book before but I can't find it on MennoNet. Maybe it was on MennoDiscuss???
Anyhow, I understood that someone was going to do a reprint of this book. But it looks like only a few copies are available for $500-900. Did the reprint never happen?
And were it not for John Ruth's book, who would have known about James Buchanan. The state of Pennsylvania gave us the 15th president in James Buchanan. Buchanan never married and over the years people made the allegations he was homosexual. But was he?mike wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 8:36 amI know what you mean. How else would you find out that in a 1726 Love Feast of ex-Mennonite followers of Dunker Conrad Beissel, they had such an intense theological argument that a man DIED?Grace wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 8:29 amWow. We got "The Earth is the Lord's" many years ago and I can't believe the book is worth that much. Nevertheless we won't part with it as it has been a very valuable resource over the years.Ernie wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 7:18 am The Earth is the Lord's by John L. Ruth
I think we had a thread on this book before but I can't find it on MennoNet. Maybe it was on MennoDiscuss???
Anyhow, I understood that someone was going to do a reprint of this book. But it looks like only a few copies are available for $500-900. Did the reprint never happen?
I found it frustrating that we are not told how he died. I assume he had a heart attack or burst a blood vessel?
Apparently around 1824, the year Buchanan was elected to the national house of Representatives, a Mennonite Family that had lived near Buchanan's residence joined a westward migration to Stark County, Ohio. neighborhood traditions claim that a daughter in the family had become pregnant and that was part of the motivation for moving. In May or June of 1825 the daughter gave birth to a child with a rather UN-Mennonite name of Henrietta. Thirty years later, this child's name would be recorded on her tombstone, (still standing just behind the Mennonite Meetinghouse in Canton, Ohio) as "M. Henrietta Buchanan."
Periodically, it was rumored, an inconspicuously dressed man would arrive at Canton by train, rent a horse-drawn vehicle from the livery stable, and visit the family.
In these years when parents often died young, many children were scattered among homes of relatives and neighbors. Happy were those whose foster parents proved kindhearted. such was the case with the son born to unmarried member of the wealthy Slaymaker family of Salisbury Township, not far from the farm of Bishop Peter Eby. Family traditions, held privately but firmly, claim that Hannah Slaymaker had become pregnant by (U.S. Senator) James Buchanan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_ChimneysHannah Slaymaker's little son, named Hiram, was taken in by a neighboring Mennonite Charles Family and given their name. At age twelve, he remembered, he was visited by a woman whom he did not know but who embraced him and repeated emotionally, "Oh, my dear boy, my dear boy!" The mysterious family tradition (holding that a packet of letters was deliberately destroyed) insisted that Buchanan was Hiram Charles real father, and that the mother eventually took her own life by slitting her throat in a cornfield behind the well-known Slaymaker mansion, White Chimneys, just west of Gap.
I got mine (and I think 2 copies for the school) when that printing went down.