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The article examines the religious subject dealing with the Alianz movement on the first half of the twentieth-century period. It explores the activities of the Blankenburger Konferenz, a loose affiliation of German evangelicals. It notes the emergence of the organization which started in 1845. It mentions the growth of Blankenburg Conference with one theme entitled "The Unity of the Body of Christ," which addressed broad issues like the meaning of the cross, the working of the Holy Spirit, the meaning of sanctification and the importance of evangelism.

The article discusses the relations of brethren and old church in the pre-World War I in Russia. In one sense, the dispute of the Mennonites society in the country during the 1860s reaffirms the continuity in the history of rather contentious people while the other regarded that it revived the buried religious values and challenged the emerging ideas and practices which are seen a something that must be kept sacred. The article also explores the indigenous factor which contributes to the widening gap between Mennonites in Russia.