unite. To defy the world and step out in the light which he had received required nothing less than a thorough change of heart. To this Menno had not yet attained. Menno writes further: “Shortly after this [namely after having made the discovery that infant baptism is without scriptural foundation] I received a call to the village in which I was born, called Witmarsum, and from motives of covetousness and ambition I accepted the position [in 1531]. Here I spoke much concerning the Word of the Lord,