While most Christians are familiar with the events and major participants of the Reformation, many still don't know very much about the Anabaptists—a sect of breakaway Christians who rejected the Roman Catholic Church and the idea of state churches altogether. Holding to principles of nonviolence, renunciation of the oath (based principally on Matthew 5:34–37 and James 5:12), and believer's baptism—the Anabaptists were persecuted for their beliefs by Catholics and Protestants. Among the various leaders of this pious group, Menno Simons became so influential, other Anabaptist leaders started referring to his Dutch followers as Mennonites.

This short pamphlet contains three lectures given to the student body of Hesston Academy and Bible School in 1916. Its mission is to establish and confirm the student in the faith of the truth of the Bible along the line that it is most frequently attacked by scholars and ripened intellectuality, and at the same time give correct information on questions of science relative to life and its development.

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