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Against the WindChapter tenThat peace be given–Earth shall be God’s kingdom, His possession–That hearts be moved,Free from hate to others, Men become brothers:We pledge this union,Friend or foe now harken To this watchword.In Jesus’ purityIs bond and friendship, Is our unity.Sannerz, 1922.a nEw bEginning114Six unbearable weeks of depressing quiet dragged by after the future of the SannerzNeuwerk cooperative had been settled. In October of 1922 Heinrich Schultheis’sgroup moved to a former girls’ school in Gelnhaar. Others tried to return to theirprevious middle-class lives. The Habertshof settlement took over most of thebook titles from the publishing house as well as the magazine, Das Neue Werk. TheSannerz household had been stripped virtually bare, the farm buildings emptied;two presumptuous young guests had even sold off the cattle to a livesock dealerat well below their real value. A small but resolute group was all that remained ofthe Sannerz community. 1Eberhard and Else wasted no time in picking up the pieces and continued thepublishing work under the name Community Publishing House Eberhard Arnold. 2(After May 1924 the name would become the Eberhard Arnold PublishingHouse, Sannerz and Leipzig.) 3 The publishing work was crucial to the group’ssurvival, and its continuation was only possible because Kees Boeke wanted themoney still available from his foundation to be used specifically for furtheringthe community and its publishing work in a pacifist and early Christian direction.Of what had once been a very attractive selection of Neuwerk books, only sixtitles remained with Eberhard’s publishing house: Max Bürck’s From StateChurches to a Religion for Humanity; Julius Goldstein’s Race and Politics, a bookon the roots and background of anti-Semitism, which attracted much attention;Eugen Jäckh’s Blumhardt Anthology; the Legends collection by Fritz Schloss;Eberhard’s pamphlet Love and the Life of Love; and lastly, Otto Herpel’s bookZinzendorf: On Faith and Life, to which he gave the Sannerz community thepublishing rights. 4 At the beginning of 1923 a sad-looking Otto Herpel arrived
Against the Windat Sannerz to deliver his monograph on Hans Denck and said, “Eberhard, thedead are being disinterred and the living buried.” Herpel remained a friend of theArnolds until his unexpected death in 1925.motivESWas Eberhard’s attitude during the crisis of August 1922 entirely out of touchwith the world? Was it irresponsible? Or even dishonest and fraudulent, as hisaccusers declared? Looking back across the decades, is his attitude any morecomprehensible? Or does it remain inexplicable, the eccentricity of an obstinatevisionary, regretfully discarded by the majority?If the expression “out of touch with the world” is taken literally, one couldconclude from Eberhard’s own words that he undoubtedly had taken hisstandards from another world: “For us, the living experience of Christ is identicalwith the living expectation of his future coming, so that what has already beenaccomplished or achieved –however it may be termed – pales before what is hereand now and what is to come.” 5“Our inner fire, our enthusiasm, our emotions, and even eros – all must be mergedwith the one great light, with the heart of God, and must gain new life with JesusChrist and be newly born in him…Everything to do with desire, possessions, thewill for power, or selfish demands is consumed by this blazing sun. The old worlddisappears…the new one, a new creation, is born with its sacrificial, all-embracing,generous love of God and joy in God.” 6 Such an attitude is certainly alien to thisworld. In the moment of greatest tension at Sannerz, when the majority feared fortheir economic future, Eberhard’s message was: “Work for the joy of it. Trust, andbase your livelihood on trust.” 7Max Wolf, owner of a Schlüchtern factory, had hit the nail on the head in thegeneral meeting of the Neuwerk Publishing House on August 4, 1922, when hehad stated that “what divides Eberhard from the other members is his convictionthat faith must determine all earthly conditions, even economic ones.” Four yearslater, the head administrator (Landrat) of the Fulda District would be curious toknow what had happened during the crisis. Eberhard would explain that “thosepeople” – by far the majority of the household community – “were unwilling torecognize that miracles, too, are a basis for economic existence.” 8 Eberhard nevermade economic existence dependent on miracles, but neither did he excludethem – and he certainly experienced them.115
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ContentsContents—ivForeword—ixP
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Against the WindHomecoming—164Cha
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Against the WindAugust 6: Eberhard
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Against the Windwith great accuracy
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Time LinemaJor EvEntS in thE lifE o
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Select BibliographyArnold, Christop
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IndexAAlm Bruderhof 189-190, 194-19
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