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 America, along with the fourteen periodicals that have been launched since then, all have been issued directly or indirectly on religious subjects. Some include in their makeup moral, educational, historical, and scientific subjects, but behind all appears the setting of worship and praise to the God of the Universe.

To a disinterested observer it appears remarkable that the dominating spirit in all Mennonite literature tends to deal with the serious, grave, and weighty things of life. With such a field of literature, which it can rightfully claim as its own, the Church as a denomination finds its mainstay and support for preventing the drift in the direction of the whirlpool of worldliness that has become so marked a feature with other denominations which have wandered far away from the principles of faith set forth by their founders, and which were once so vigorously upheld by their early adherents.

The Mennonite Publication Board is composed of one representative of each of the Mennonite conference districts in America, three members appointed by the Mennonite General Conference, together with the General Manager and Secretary-Treasurer of the Mennonite Publishing House. Its mission is to keep the Church supplied with a full line of Church, Sunday school, and missionary literature, through the ministry of literature to strengthen every home and foster every enterprise undertaken by the Church.

Mennonite Book and Tract Society

This institution of the Church was organized in