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How Much Do You Know About the Amish?
by R. A. Oldaker


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Read the following statements and indicate whether they are true (T) or
false (F).

1. __ There are more Amish today than there have been in any time in
history.
2. __ The Amish do not study science in their schools.
3. __ The Amish do not serve in the military.
4. __ Some Amish vote in elections.
5. __ Amish children leave school after the eighth grade.
6. __ The Amish pay property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, and a
variety of local and state taxes, but do not receive any federal, state,
or local benefits because they rely on mutal aid instead.
7. __ The Amish do not receive Medicare and Medicaid.
8. __ Amish shop owners pay Social Security taxes for their Amish
employees, but these employees receive nothing in return from the
federal government.
9. __ The Amish do not accept funds from federally subsidized
agricultural programs.
10. __ The Amish believe in self-sufficiency and independence from all
government programs.
11. __ The Amish do not receive welfare checks.
12. __ During times of war, young Amish men often participate in some
form of alternate public service instead of actually serving as soldiers.
13. __ The Amish believe that everyone should work for peace and
nonviolence in the world.
14. __ The Amish provide their children with a emotional security,
meaning, identity, and belonging.
15. __ The Amish are the conservative “cousins” of the Mennonites.
16. __ The Amish originally came from Switzerland.
17. __ The Amish live mainly in the United States, but they also live in
Canada, Guatemala, Belize, and some other countries.
18. __ The Amish were named after a young, Swiss Mennonite bishop called
Jacob Amman.
19. __ The Amish came into being in 1693.
20. __ The Amish are sometimes called Anabaptists.
21. __ The Amish are Protestant Christians.
22. __ The Amish believe the Bible is their guide to living.
23. __ The Amish believe in the separation of church and state.
24. __ The Amish believe in the Trinity and the other orthodox doctrines
of traditional Christianity.
25. __ The Amish practice believers’ baptism.
26. __ The Amish believe in living simply and close to nature.
27. __ The Amish speak standard German in their house churches and in
school, speak a Low German dialect at home and with other Amish, and
learn English so that they may speak with non-Amish people.
28. __ There are different groups of Old-Order and New-Order Amish.
29. __ It is possible for non-Amish people to join the Amish and live as
they do.
30. __ The Amish wear distinctive clothing because they believe in
practicing humility, simplicity, nonconformity with the world, and modesty.
31. __ Amish men and boys wear coats without lapels.
32. __ Amish men and boys wear broadfall pants (no zippers).
33. __ Amish men and boys wear white or plain-colored, pastel shirts.
34. __ Amish men and boys have their hair cut at the collar line.
35. __ Amish women and girls wear full skirts, long sleeves, high necks,
capes, and aprons.
36. __ Amish women and girls can wear dresses that are of a solid color
and can be intensely blue, brown, green, gray, black, maroon, orange,
pink, or purple.
37. __ Amish women and girls never cut their hair.
38. __ Amish women and girls wear their hair parted in the middle and
pulled back from the face, twisting the hair into a bun on the back of
their necks.
39. __ Amish women and girls always wear a white, organdy prayer cap
when they are awake.
40. __ Amish women and girls wear prayers caps as a sign of their
submission to God.
41. __ In cold weather, Amish women and girls cover their prayer caps
with large, black bonnets and often wear shawls.
42. __ Amish men and women never wear jewelry.
43. __ The Amish do not wear zippers or buttons; they use hooks and
eyelets instead.
44. __ Amish men never wear necces that might weaken family bonds, like
owning automobiles, radios, telephones, and television sets.
46. __ The Amish maintain their own one-room school houses.
47. __ The Amish farmer produces more harvest per acre with less energy
consumption than his non-Amish neighbors.
48. __ The Amish still plow their fields with horses.
49. __ The Amish use gasoline-powered tractors only for the belt-power
to thresh grain or to fill silos.
50. __ The Amish are permitted to ride in cars, trucks, taxis, and
trains, but they are not permitted to own them since owning a vehicle
might keep people away from home too long.
51. __ Not all Amish are farmers. Some work as carpenters, craftsmen,
buggy repairmen, or cheese producers, or factory workers.
52. __ Unmarried Amish women may work in other people’s houses, doing
housework, or they may work in farmers’ markets or even in small shops
and factories.
53. __ The Amish raise more than enough food so that they can give it to
poor people and even send it overseas to poor nations.
54. __ The Amish believe in volunteerism and often mobilize during
national or regional disasters to help the non-Amish clean up and rebuild.
55. __ The Amish usually have very large families.
56. __ Some groups of Amish, like the Beachy Amish, do missionary work
in other countries.
57. __ An Amish man and woman may divorce and remarry.
58. __ Young Amish men and women keep their courtship a secret usually.
59. __ Young men and women are permitted to socialize on at Sunday
evening singings, and the young man will take a girl to her house in his
carriage if he likes her.
60. __ If an Amish man and woman wish to marry, they will tell the
bishop, minister, or deacon of their church. The church official will
then obtain the consent of the girl’s parents. Finally, a marriage
announcement (called a “ban”) is made (“published”) in the congregation
two days to two weeks before the marriage. The following Monday, the
groom-to-be (der Hochzeiter) personally visits all the people he wished
to attend the wedding. This may take several days since he is actually
visiting all the relatives and
relatives-to-be and sometimes spends the night at their houses.
61. __ Marriages are big affairs among the Amish and often there are up
to four hundred people attending a wedding.
62. __ The Old Order Amish groups usually have weddings in November
(when farm work is not so demanding) on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
63. __ An Amish wedding usually lasts four hours, beginning at 9:00 in
the morning.
64. __ An Amish wedding consists of a church service in the house
comprised of wedding hymns, a very long sermon about marriage based on
the Old and New Testaments and even the Apocrypha, simple vows,
testimonies from church leaders, and an extended prayer.
65. __ At an Amish wedding, there are no kisses, rings, photographers,
florists, fashion consultants, or caterers.
66. __ After the wedding service, the Amish sit together at long tables
and eat chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, ham, relishes,
canned fruit, and many kinds of cookies, pies, and cakes.
67. __ At an Amish wedding reception two tables are placed together in a
corner of the large living room, the tables forming an L. This is where
the bride and groom sit because it is a special place of honor. The room
is full of tables, and all the guests take turns eating at the tables,
but the bride and groom always eat first.
68. __ On the wedding day, the Amish do not leave the house after the
wedding service. They stay there all day and have both a wedding lunch
(called dinner) and a wedding supper later in the day. They sing hymns
late into the evening.
69. __ Amish newlyweds do not take honeymoons. Instead, they spend every
weekend of the winter visiting their extended families and receiving
wedding gifts (including heavy pieces of furniture), which they put into
a large wagon.
70. __ Amish couples that get married in November do not live together
until the spring of the following year when they set up housekeeping.
71. __ Amish women are superb at gardening, quilting, and sewing.
72. __ Both Amish men and women co-own their farms.
73. __ Amish children are taught to be disciplined, respectful, and
obedient.
74. __ Children are a vital part of an Amish family, and they learn how
to do useful chores early on. Amish children feel needed and work very hard.
75. __ The Amish tend to eat lots of pickled, garden-fresh vegetables,
canned fruit (which they can themselves) from their orchards, and smoked
and cured meats because they do not have freezers that run on electricity.
76. __ The Amish do not oppose modern medicine. They often go to
doctors, take pills and other medications, and stay in the hospital when
necessary.
77. __ The Amish often rely on home remedies when someone in the family
is sick.
78. __ When Amish people die, the funeral and burial take place three
days after death.
79. __ The Amish permit bodies to be embalmed.
80. __ The Amish have their own style of coffins. It is a very plain,
six-sided box with a split lid that is hinged. All coffins are made of pine.
81. __ The Amish dress their dead in white shrouds.
82. __ Amish funerals take place at home and last nearly two hours.
83. __ There are no eulogies at Amish funerals.
84. __ At an Amish funeral, a hymn is spoken but not sung.
85. __ After an Amish funeral, the body of the loved one is taken to an
Amish-owned cemetery in a horse-drawn hearse.
86. __ No one places flowers on an Amish gravesite.
87. __ A simple tombstone is placed on an Amish gravesite, and all the
tombstones look alike.
88. __ Following an Amish burial, all of the friends and relatives of
the bereaved will have a fellowship meal, and the friends and relatives
bring all the food.
89. __ The Amish can have fun without the help of the American
entertainment industry.
90. __ Amish children often play baseball or softball after the evening
meal, play lively table games like Monopoly or Rook, ride their
scooters, travel down the road on rollerskates, sew clothes for dolls,
play with toy trucks, build tunnels in the lay lofts, go sledding and
ice skating in the winter, visit friends, tell stories and have
discussions, sing, and do many of the things that rural families without
TV do.
91. __ The Amish sing, but do not play music instruments.
92. __ The Amish are extremely honest, much more than any non-Amish person.
93. __ The Amish actually enjoy working hard. They do not complain about
hard work but find joy in it.
94. __ You will not find books of modern fiction in an Amish home and
very few novels.
95. __ The books that you will find in an Amish home would include the
Bible, Bible storybooks for children, Menno Simons’ writings (He was a
Dutch Mennonite leader), The Martyrs Mirror (about the early
persecutions of the Anabaptists), some prayer books, some Christian
inspirational books, and school books (often published by the Amish
themselves or older reprints of American textbooks).
96. __ The Amish read newspapers.
97. __ The Amish read inspirational magazines.
98. __ The Amish do not believe in becoming wealthy. That is not the
purpose of life.
99. __ The Amish do not hold public, elective office, but some of them vote.
100. __ The largest Amish community in the world is in Holmes County,
Ohio. The second largest Amish community in the world is in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania.
101. __ Amish men wear beards but not moustaches because they wish to
imitate Jesus Christ (who wore a beard) but, since they recognize they
are not perfect as Christ was, they do not wear a moustache as Christ
did. This is their recognition that they are trying to be like Jesus but
do not always live up to this ideal. They also do not wear moustaches
because, in Europe in the old days, military men used to wear moustaches
and the Amish are pacificists and do not want to be identified with war
in any way.
102. __ There are no Amish in Europe today.
103. __ The Amish are called Dutch because this is a corruption of the
word Deutsch, which actually means German.
104. __ The Pennsylvania Dutch are comprised of not only the Amish but
also of all German groups, including German Lutherans, the Evangelical
United Brethren, the Church of the Brethren (German Dunkards), Brethren
in Christ, all Mennonites, and the Reformed.
105. __ Although the Amish do not have electricity in their houses, they
do use gas lanterns, oil lamps, battery-operated flashlights, and
gas-operated refrigerators.
106. __ In the summer, the Amish will often hold their church services
inside a large, spacious barn.
107. __ Each Amish congregation (Gemeinde) contains from fifteen to
thirty families or about seventy-five baptized members.
108. __ An Amish church district is made up of the houses of the members
of a congregation. Church services are held twice a month in the homes
of the members on a rotational basis.
109. __ Each Amish church district has one bishop, two or three
assisting preachers, and a deacon. When there are too many people in a
district, it is divided and a new set of preachers are ordained.
110. __ When it is an Amish family’s turn to host the church service,
many preparations are made: stables are thoroughly cleaned, the house is
freshly painted, the furniture is moved and cleaned, the stoves are
polished, the fences are whitewashed, the meeting benches are hauled by
wagon to the farm and, the Saturday before the house-church meeting, a
dozen or more women arrive to help the woman of the house make bread,
cakes, and pies, and to supply the kitchens with pickles, beets, jams,
and coffee for the fellowship meal that follows every service.
111. __ Amish people never miss church services unless they are deathly
sick.
112. __ Before an Amish house-church meeting, everyone shakes hands and
the ministers greet each other with a holy kiss (I Thessalonians 5:26),
which is an ancient Christian custom.
113. __ All the Amish hymns are sung slowly in a special chant. These
hymns come from an ancient Amish hymnal called the Ausbund, which is 500
years old.
114. __ On a Sunday morning, two sermons are given in Amish home-church
services: a long one by an older minister and a shorter one by a younger
minister.
115. __ The Amish read prayers from a prayer book and these prayers are
both read aloud and silently.
116. __ After prayer, short testimonies called Zeugnisse are given by
all the preachers present. There are at least two or three preachers in
every district and some visit from other districts.
117. __ Two Sundays a month, when there are no church services, the
Amish either rest at home or visit each other and talk about God and
other things.
118. __ Amish children attend the long, four-hour home-church services,
even if they are babies.
119. __ Amish sermons are chanted in a special sing-song voice.
120. __ In the fellowship meal that follows the church service, the food
is always the same by custom. There is no variety in the meal from month
to month.
121. __ Amish bishops, preachers, and deacons are chosen by the
congregations (a true democracy) by the lot system and these positions
are held for life and they receive no salary.
122. __ The Amish do not meet in church building. All their services are
conducted at home or in the barn.
123. __ In Amish communities, it is age, not youth, that is respected.
124. __ The Amish live in extended families. Additional rooms are built
onto the house when the house gets crowded. Actually, these look like
separate houses that are connected to one another. The grandparents move
into the “grossdawdy” (grandfather) house as new children are born into
the family.
125. __ Amish houses are usually quite large and partitions in the
living room can be removed to accommodate large gatherings, especially
for church services and weddings.
126. __ The Amish believe in mutual aid. If a farmer’s barn burns down,
the Amish community will immediately come together and build the farmer
a new barn.
127. __ If someone gets sick in the Amish community and cannot pay
expensive hospital bills, the community itself will collect funds to pay
for all the expenses.
128. __ The Amish do not usually have banking accounts and pay for
everything by cash.
129. __ The Amish do not make much of a profit by farming. Most of the
profit is put back into farming. However, since Amish farming families
don’t have the expenses that ordinary Americans have (like cars,
electric bills, luxuries, etc.), they are able to save some money.
130. __ Some Amish are dairy farmers and produce milk.
131. __ Many Amish families churn their own butter from their own cow milk.
132. __ The Amish call all non-Amish people “English” whether they are
actually English or not.
133. __ The Amish do not decorate their houses with photos or paintings.
134. __ The Amish have decorative things in their house if those items
serve a practical purpose, like calendars, colorful dishes and cups,
rugs, and family registers on the walls.
135. __ The Amish do not paint geometric or hex signs on their barns for
good luck and protection from bad luck. This is a custom of the “gay”
(meaning gaily dressed) Deutsch, Americans of German ancestry who are
non-Amish.
136. __ Amish young people start thinking about whom they would like to
marry when they are around sixteen years old.
137. __ Amish boys don’t usually ask girls directly if they can take the
girls home after a Sunday-evening sing. If a boy is interested in a
girl, he will ask a friend to act as a go-between. The friend will tell
the girl that
a boy likes her. If she accepts the boy’s invitation to ride home with
her, this is called “getting propped up.”
138. __ Amish boys and girls also meet each other at husking bees,
weddings, apple schmitzins (apple-peeling and cutting parties) and barn
socials (called frolics).
139. __ An Amish boy and girl who are going steady will meet each other
every week or two on Saturday nights. The boy is permitted to visit the
girl’s home, talk with her in the parlor or sitting room without her
parents being in the room, (The parents are usually asleep by the time
the sun goes down.), but they do not go out on dates as non-Amish young
people do.
140. __ Although it is becoming a very rare practice now, bundling is
sometimes still practiced. This is an ancient custom where boyfriends
and girlfriends lie together on a bed fully dressed and put a blanket
over them as they have a talk. This is done in cold weather usually.
This “date” is completely innocent and has no sexual connotations at all
for the Amish. (This stems in part from their lack of awareness about
how babies are made. They often find out shortly before they marry.)
141. __ The Amish do not believe in pre-marital sex, and Amish girls
never get pregnant before marriage.
142. __ Amish young people are not automatically members of the Amish
church. They are not punished for breaking church regulations concerning
clothing or other non-moral matters. However, when they are older
(whether in their teens or twenties), they can voluntarily join the
church. It is at that point that they will follow the Ordnung (the
practices of the church). That is why it is okay for tourists to take
pictures of Amish children (since they are not members of the church and
have not been baptized yet) but not all right to
take pictures of Amish adults.
143. __ Contrary to popular myth, the Amish do not paint their gates
blue to announce that a daughter is getting married.
144. __ The Amish do not have engagement or wedding rings.
145. __ At an Amish wedding, the bride and groom wear new clothes, but
they are the same type of clothes they wear for normal Sunday church
services. There are no wedding gowns or tuxedos.
146. __ Amish brides like wearing blue dresses when they get married.
147. __ The Amish wedding is held in the bride’s family’s house.
148. __ At the wedding table (after the wedding), the bride and groom
sit in the corner (die Eck) and are waited on by four people (two boys
and two girls). When evening comes and it is time to eat again (the
second wedding meal of the day), all the unmarried boys must sit with
all the unmarried girls as partners.
149. __ In some Amish communities (especially those in Pennsylvania),
the groom is tossed over a fence by his friends after he is married. The
new bride steps over a broom.
150. __ The night of the wedding day, the married couple sleep in the
house of the bride’s family and they help clean up the house the next day.
151. __ After some Amish weddings, the young people play games in the
barn. The barn is swept and cleaned before the wedding day. Lanterns are
hung in the barn because the games go on late into the night. The young
people do not actually dance as such, but they do tend to hold hands and
swing each other around a bit when playing games such as O-Hi-O, Skip to
My Lou, The Needle’s Eye, and Six Steps Forward-I Do, I Do.
152. __ One favorite game of Amish young people is “mush ball” (Mosch
Balle), sometimes translated as “corner ball” in English. It is like
dodge ball but all the boys stand in four corners with one person in the
middle who must avoid getting hit by the ball.
153. __ Amish school children play tug of war, jump rope, have foot
races, and practice high jumping.
154. __ Older Amish children play a game called botching. Two people sit
on chairs and clap hands and knees alternately in various ways and quite
rapidly. The feet may be used to keep time to the tune of “Darling Nelly
Gray” or “Pop Goes the Weasel.”
155. __ Some Amish men may smoke cigars, but tobacco is often
discouraged or even forbidden in many church districts.
156. __ The use of alcoholic beverages is frowned upon by all church
districts although I have known some Amish to make dandelion wine.
157. __ The Amish are permitted to go to the zoo and to the circus to
see the animals.
158. __ The Amish hymnal, the Ausbund, first appeared in 1564 and
contains words but no music. The tunes have been handed down for
hundreds of years entirely by memory. Many of the hymns were written by
the Amish forefathers who were imprisoned at Passau, Bavaria, while
awaiting death sentences.
159. __ It sometimes takes twenty or thirty minutes to sing an Amish
hymn because the hymn is sung in a kind of slow droning or wailing voice.
160. __ When singing an Amish hymn, there is a song leader called a
Vorsanger who intones the first syllable of each line of verse and then
the whole congregation joins in singing the line.
161. __ At Amish weddings or young people’s meetings, a smaller hymnal
called the Lieder Sammlungen (Collection of Songs) is used. The tunes
are faster and are like the American Gospel Hymns of the 1800’s. However
the words are in German, not in English. Some of the hymns are easily
recognized, such as “Silent Night,” “Beulah Land,” “Sweet Hour of
Prayer,” and other Evangelical hymns.
162. __ All Amish men wear beards. They begin growing them when they are
baptized or when they are married, whichever comes first.
163. __ Buttons are used on Amish men’s pants, shirts, and underwear and
also on children’s dresses, but hooks and eyes are required on all outer
garments, such as coats and vests.
164. __ On the two Sundays per month that the Amish attend church
services, the men must wear a special black coat with split tails called
a Mutze.
165. __ Although Amish girls wear white, organdy caps, if they are
unmarried, they will wear a black cap on the Sundays that they go to the
church meeting along with a white organdy apron.
166. __ It is hard to tell baby boys from baby girls in an Amish family
because even infant boys are dressed in long dresses and have bonnets on
their heads. This was the usual dress for baby boys even among regular
Americans in the 1800’s.
167. __ The bustle (a rounded piece of cloth) that is attached to the
waist on the back of an Amish woman’s dress is called a Lepple and it is
worn as a sign of humility.
168. __ You can tell from the size of a Amish man’s hat brim and from
the shape of the hat’s crown what order of Amish the man belongs too.
The hats are always black and made of imported Australian rabbit fur by
special companies in the United States that cater to the Amish. The hats
feel like felt, however. In the summer, Amish men wear specially made
straw hats unless they are going to church, in which case they don the
black hat as usual. Bishops sometimes wear a black hat with a rounded
crown and different curl of
the brim.
169. __ Some Amish boys wear hats that look like the stovepipe hats that
Abraham Lincoln wore.
170. __ An Amish person does not travel more than ten miles at a time in
his horse and buggy.
171. __ A two-seated buggy with a top is strictly for family use.
172. __ A one-seat topless buggy is used by boys who are of courting age.
173. __ Some Amish young people (who have not yet joined the church)
will decorate their buggies with feathers, hat racks, compasses, dimmer
switches, and signal lights. After they join the church, these
decorations must be removed.
174. __ The way Amish parents discipline their children is by
“bletching” (spanking).
175. __ The Amish do not swear oaths in court but they do make
affirmations of truth. The Amish do not bring lawsuits against others,
but some lawyers have forced them to appear in court if they have
witnessed a crime.
176. __ The Amish believe in personal nonresistance. They believe in
literally turning the other cheek and will not return any violence done
to them because they believe God will punish and reward people in the
next life. They do not believe in revenge or violence of any kind.
177. __ Although the Amish are a people of peace and harmony, many
non-Amish people persecute them by spitting on them, throwing bricks
through their windows, throwing stones at their children, deliberately
crashing into their buggies with automobiles, burning down their houses
and barns, and killing their animals. In all of this, the Amish pray for
their enemies so that their enemies may know true love in their hearts.
178. __ The newspaper that all Amish read (no matter where they live) is
the Budget, which is published in Sugarcreek, Ohio, by a non-Amish
editor. It does contain information about what is happening in Amish
communities all over the United States, so that is why the Amish buy it.
Many Amish people write letters to groups of friends living in other
states and the editor prints these in every issue.
179. __ You cannot get an accurate picture of Amish life by watching the
entertaining movies that have been produced about the Amish by
Hollywood. The actors who played in the film Witness, starring Harrison
Ford, were not Amish. The more recent films starring Tim Allen are even
worse.
180. __ The Amish have no ambitions to possess the whole world or to
convert it.
181. __ The Amish are industrious, neighborly, thrifty, honest, humble,
calm, happy, and kind.
182. __ The Amish have generators on their farms that are operated by
diesel fuel. The generators are used to recharge batteries and to
operate air and hydraulic pumps.
183. __ The Amish do not have clothes dryers, toasters, blow dryers,
microwaves, VCRs, or doorbells in their houses.
184. __ Electric home freezers are forbidden, but the Amish are
permitted to purchase gas freezers, rent freezer space at public produce
markets and stores, or use deep freezers if they are placed in the
basement or garage of a non-Amish neighbor.
185. __ Amish women often use the old-style wringer washing machines if
they are powered by modern gasoline engines.
186. __ The Amish can use some modern technology as long as it is not
powered by electricity and it does not interfere with family life.
187. __ Amish dairy farmers use refrigerated bulk-milk tanks but these
tanks do not use electricity. They are operated by diesel engines
instead. The automatic agitators are operated by twelve-volt motors
powered by twelve-volt batteries. Note: Twelve-volt batteries stores
direct current (DC) whereas 110-volt conveniences (like TV’s, radios,
and other appliances) operate on alternating current (AC). The Amish may
use DC, but not AC. They may produce electricity with electric
generators only if the generators themselves are operated using diesel
fuel. Then the generators can be used to power electric tools, power
welders, and for recharging batteries. No other appliances may be used
with the generator.
188. __ The Amish sometimes transform twelve-volt current into
“homemade” 110-volt electricity with a device called an inverter. It is
the size of a car battery and can operate cash registers, typewriters,
soldering guns, cow clippers, and other small appliances. The church has
made no prohibitions on the use of inverters yet, but they may in the
future.
189. __ Sometimes the Amish will maintain a public telephone at the end
of a lane for emergency use, but they do not want telephones in their
houses because they cherish personal visits and the telephone in the
house would undermine the fabric of Amish social life.
190. __The Amish do not travel in airplanes. In very rare emergencies,
such as funerals, church leaders may give special permission to members
for flights. Riding in vans or trains is acceptable but planes are
considered too worldy and unnecessary.
191. __ Amish children do not ride bicycles, motorcycles, snowmobiles,
or all-terrain vehicles because these would encourage individualism,
automatic mobility, self-indulgence, and social status...all worldly
attributes that should be shunned.
192. __ There are no electric lines going from a pole into an Amish
home. The Amish feel that such lines would connect them to the world and
badly influence their children.
193. __ The Amish practice the Christian ordinance of water baptism. The
person baptized must know what he or she is doing and have a living
faith. Baptism is done by pouring rather than by immersion. Candidates
for baptism kneel and water is poured over their heads after they have
made a confession
of Christian faith and have agreed to comply with the order and
discipline of the community.
194. __ The Amish practice foot washing as a part of the Communion
Service (the Eucharist) because footwashing was done in Jesus’ day at
the Last Supper.
195. __ Church members who voluntarily transgress the regulation
(Ordnung) of the church are encouraged to repent and to come back into
the fold of the church. If they refuse, then they risk excommunication
and shunning by the whole community. However, the church is never mean.
It tries to lovingly restore its members to fellowship and is never
eager to expel erring members. Members can always be restored if they
are willing to repent and ask forgiveness. Shunning is a strong form of
love designed to win back the transgressor and to preserve the purity
of the church.
196. __ Cooperation rather than competition is fostered in Amish schools.
197. __ What the Amish community holds to as a group is considered to be
more important that what individuals hold to.
198. __ Mild and modest personalities are esteemed in Amish communities.
Patience, waiting, yielding to others, and a gentle chuckle are the
signs of maturity in Amish society.
199. __ The Amish believe that pride, egoism, aggressiveness,
assertiveness, competition, boasting, individualism, disobedience,
self-fulfillment, personal choice, and the insistence on personal rights
all sow discord and endanger the community. Instead, the Amish value
cooperation, kindness, humility, modesty, conformity, harmony,
obedience, peace, equality, and self-effacement. Non-Amish people try to
find themselves, but Amish people try to lose themselves in service to
others.
200. __ The Amish shun publicity at all costs.
201. __ Grown children who never joined the Amish church are not shunned
if they join another Christian denomination.
202. __ Over one-third of married Amish men work in non-farm jobs such
as in small cottage industries, repair work, light manufacturing (Amish
owned), mobile carpentry and construction work (homes, silos, kitchens,
etc.), and retail stores (hardware, clothing, furniture, crafts, books).
203. __ The Amish do not own restaurants, but some Mennonites do.
204. __ Single Amish women are the only ones who teach in Amish schools.
205. __ Amish school children study basic skills, such as reading,
writing, spelling, geography, and practical math. Both Standard German
and English are taught. There are religious devotional exercises in the
school but religion is not taught in a formal way. That is left to the
church and to the parents.
206. __ Amish teenagers who are not yet baptized members of the church
often sow their wild oats and break many of the taboos of Amish society
(drinking, smoking, owning cars secretly, wearing non-Amish clothes in
town, etc.). Although the church frowns on this behavior, it also
realizes that this period of freedom gives the youth a chance to either
accept or reject the culture of their birthright and offers a moment to
explore the outside world, and to rebel before making a conscious
decision to make a lifetime commitment to the church. It is their moment
of choice. More than 80% decide to stay Amish.
207. __ In the one-room Amish school, one teacher is responsible for
eight grades.
208. __ In the Amish school, children partake in singing in both German
and in English.
209. __ In the Amish school, arithmetic is usually the first subject of
the day to be studied.
210. __ English and spelling are usually introduced in the second period
in the Amish school.
211. __ On the first day of school, second graders are given a review of
work done in the first grade.
212. __ On the first day of school, the first graders are usually asked
to stand in front of the class by age and the teacher sees how much
English they already know (which is very little actually). The teacher
tries not to speak in Low German when giving the English lesson. She
will introduce numbers and the alphabet, the children learning a new
letter every day beginning with the vowels and then the consonants.

Cultural note: One Amish lady by the name of Esther Horst wrote a little
poem that many Amish children now memorize. The poem is called “English,
Please” and goes like this:

English, English, that’s the language
We must speak each day in school,
If instead we speak in German
Then we disobey our rule.

German speech is fine for home-folks,
All the family’s gathered ‘round;
But at school we must speak English
So we meet on common ground.

Using English daily helps us
With our reading, writing skills.
So come on! Let’s all speak English!
We can if we really will.

213. __ Only half-day sessions are held during the first week of school
in Amish communities.
214. __ During the second week of Amish school, the seventh and eighth
graders are dismissed at noon to go home to help with the farm work.
215. __ Amish parents take responsibility for the repair and annual
cleaning of the Amish schoolhouse a week or two before school starts
each fall.
216. __ Amish parents visit the Amish school once or twice during the
school term, coming without prior knowledge of the teacher or children.
217. __ In some Amish schools, the teacher herself will ask one parent
to come to the school each week, making the children feel that their
parents are concerned enough about school to visit frequently.
218. __ There is a stove in each Amish schoolhouse, and the parents take
turns bringing loads of firewood to the school and placing it on the
porch. Wood is burned in the stove, but coal is used in the coldest months.
219. __ In the summertime when school is out, the parents take turns
each week mowing the grass in the schoolyard with a reel-type mower
pulled by a horse or pony.
220. __ In an Amish school, one parent is appointed to be caretaker, and
the teacher reports to him any repair work that needs to be done to the
building.
221. __ Amish parents volunteer to open their homes sometime during the
school term to have a School Singing. All the parents and students
attend this. They begin at 7:00 in the evening, boys sitting on one side
of a long table and girls sitting on the other side.
222. __ When there is a School Singing at the home of one of the host
parents, the children take turns announcing and leading the German and
English songs that are to be sung. Singing lasts an hour and a half.
When everyone gets restless, refreshments are served: cookies, popcorn,
pretzels, and lemonade or iced tea.
223. __ Sometimes, Amish mothers and grandmothers will bring a hot meal
to school for all the children. This is usually a wonderful surprise for
the children.
224. __ Amish children enjoy hiking.
225. __ In the wintertime, Amish children sometimes bring potatoes
wrapped in aluminum foil to roast on the ledge inside the top furnace
door of the school stove. Other children bring leftovers from their
evening meal and heat this on the stove for lunch, including pie in pie
pans.
226. __ In the wintertime, a kettle of water is usually placed on the
school stove to provide some moisture in the air.
227. __ In an Amish school, the day’s date is always written on the
chalkboard. There is a calendar on the wall, and yesterday’s date is
always shaded using a red marker and tomorrow’s date is circled using
the red marker.
228. __ The Amish teacher always writes the homework on the board for
each grade after the date is written on the chalkboard.
229. __ Sometimes in the Amish school, older Amish children help the
teacher by checking the younger children’s work or answering their
questions.
230. __ In an Amish school, the day begins at 8:30 a.m. with the teacher
ringing the bell above the schoolhouse and the children coming in and
taking their seats.
231. __ After the children are seated at their desks with their hands
folded on top of their desks, the Amish teacher will lead the children
in prayer. Everyone rises, bows their heads, and repeats the Lord’s
Prayer in unison.
232. __ After the prayer in an Amish school, the children walk to the
front of the class and sing a few songs in German and in English.
233. __ After prayer and singing, Amish school children take their
seats, and arithmetic class begins.
234. __ Grades five to eight will exchange their arithmetic papers and
check them before handing them in. Grades three and four hand their
papers to an older child or the teacher for checking. Then grades three
to eight start on the next lesson by doing the assignment posted on the
chalkboard. Second grade studies their reading lesson while first grade
goes to the front of the room for their oral reading.
235. __ Amish children often write in special workbooks at their seat.
236. __ In the Amish school, recess takes place at 10:00 a.m. The
children play, go to the toilet, get drinks of water, and sharpen their
pencils during recess.
237. __ In the Amish school at recess, the children play all kinds of
games. “Bear” is a favorite game among the girls. One of them is the
bear and tries to catch the others.
238. __ The 10:00 recess at the Amish school lasts for fifteen minutes.
239. __ After morning recess, the children go back into the school
building and take their seats. The teacher then rings a desk bell for order.
240. __ From morning recess to lunch time, the children usually work on
reading.
241. __ In the Amish school, lunch time is 11:30 a.m.
242. __ In preparation for lunch in the Amish schoolhouse, the children
are dismissed by rows to wash their hands, to get their lunch boxes, and
return to their seats where they will all say a prayer in unison.
243. __ Lunch lasts for ten minutes. Some children can finish in three
minutes and are permitted to go outside and play for the remaining seven
minutes.
244. __ After lunch, Amish school children take turns wiping the desks
and sweeping up the crumbs from the floor.
245. __ After lunch in the Amish school and after everything has been
cleaned, storytime takes place and this lasts for fifteen minutes.
246. __ If the Amish school children have wasted time, it is usually the
storytime period that is reduced so that the real lessons don’t have to
be reduced.
247. __ In the afternoon at an Amish school, the children study either
geography, history or health. They copy questions from the chalkboard
into their composition books, look for the answers in their textbooks,
and write out the answers and study them so that they can answer by
memory in class. (Does this sound like the lessons given in the
schoolhouse on the TV program Little House on the Prairie? You bet!)
248. __ In the wintertime at the Amish school house, tables are set up
during recess and board games are played, like Checkers, Score Four,
Sorry, and Uno. Other children like to play with the dart board. There
are different dart games, like “Round the Clock” and “Stinger.”
249. __ Amish children love playing a game called “Jack in the Box.”
Three milk cartons of different sizes have their tops cut off, and then
the cartons are placed side by side. The children line up three feet
from the cartons and toss a rubber ball. If the ball lands in the large
carton, the child gets 15 points. If the ball lands in the middle-size
carton, the child gets 30 points. If the ball lands in the small carton,
the child gets 50 points. Each player gets only one try on a turn, then
goes to the end of the line to await another turn. The first player to
score 250 points is the winner.
250. __ The Amish schools get their textbooks from Amish printers in
Ohio and Pennsylvania. The printers bought the rights to the printing
plates of older American textbooks and have built up an entire
eighth-grade curriculum. The Amish now own the rights to Stayer-Upton
three-book series of Practical Arithmetic, the Ginn Series of Learning
to Spell, the Scott-Foresman Basic Readers for grades one through four,
the Silver-Burdett Geography series, the Laidlaw Brothers History
series, and the Dick and Jane series.
251. __ The Old Order Amish have their own publishing house, called
Pathway Publishers. It is located in Aylmer, Ontario, however.
252. __ An Amish schoolhouse has a copy of the World Book Encyclopedia
for reference. Some offensive photos in the encyclopedia are covered
over with a black, felt-tip marker.
253. __ Amish children read books that are morally wholesome, like Heidi
by Johanna Spyri, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and the Laura
Ingalls Wilder books, and others.
254. __ Amish children do not read fairytales or mythical fiction (like
the Narnia by C.S. Lewis).
255. __ The Amish publish a monthly magazine called Blackboard Bulletin
for their school teachers. It gives tips on teaching and how to handle
teaching difficulties and discipline problems.
256. __ Amish schools are supervised by a school board consisting of
between three to five Amish men. Board meetings take place once a month
and are attended by board members and teachers. On these days, school is
dismissed an hour early and the meeting is held in the schoolhouse.
Often the children will sing a few songs for the board members before
they go home. Sometimes a meeting is held at the house of one of the
board members.
257. __ An Amish school teacher’s salary is determined by each district
separately.
258. __ School taxes are collected from all Amish school parents and
church members. The money goes to pay for state property taxes. The
Amish pay taxes not only for the public schools, which they do not use,
but also for their own schools.
259. __ Amish schools do not charge tuition. Costs are funded by
free-will donations given by the Amish community.
260. __ The Amish teacher (most always a female but, in some instances,
a married male) informs the school board (made up of three to five Amish
men) once a month what supplies she needs.
261. __ Most Amish schools hire teachers of their own faith. However,
some school board have hired Old Order Mennonites as teachers.
262. __ In Kansas, where the Amish attend public, rural, one-room
schools, non-Amish teachers are hired by the state, but these teachers
must be sympathetic to the Amish way of life.
263. __ Amish school-teacher salaries do not match that of the public
school system, so teachers teach in Amish schools as a labor of love and
dedication with much personal sacrifice.
264. __ Amish school teachers usually meet together five times a year
(depending on the state really) where they share teaching tips. These
meetings always begin with singing and prayer. The older, more experienced
teachers always help younger teachers.These meetings usually last five
and a half hours, including supper.
265. __ Amish schools take very few holidays, preferring rather to fill
their quota of required school days and then take an extended summer
vacation when work needs to be done on farms.
266. __ Amish schools have Christmas programs, but these do not involve
Santa Claus in any way.
267. __ Amish schools have gift exchanges at Christmas time.
268. __ Some Old Order Amish schools celebrate the end of the school
year with a picnic. Parents bring potluck food, visit, and watch the
children play softball and volleyball.
269. __ The Amish have special schools for mentally handicapped children.
270. __ When an Amish person rides in a buggy, he or she puts a blanket
over their laps to prevent horsehairs and mud from getting on their clothes.
271. __ To keep warm in the winter while riding in buggies, the Amish
pile on extra-heavy blankets, wear heavier clothing, and heat the
carriage with either special, propane-burning heaters (mounted on the
dash), hot bricks wrapped in blankets, plastic jugs filled with hot
water, and lanterns.
272. __ Amish buggies that have open tops are equipped with a large
black umbrella, usually stored under the front seat, that is used when
it rains.
273. __ Older-style Amish buggies have tops with roll-down curtains
supplemented by a canvas apron that snaps to the buggy box and side posts.
274. __ The Amish make their own buggies. There are many shops (usually
owned and operated by the Amish) that make buggy parts. One shop cannot
make a whole buggy by itself, however.
275. __ There may be as many as eight coats of paint on the woodwork of
an Amish buggy.
276. __ Very few Amish raise or train their own horses.
277. __ Most Amish people buy harness horses at racetracks or at
auctions. They prefer Standard Bred horses of a bay color. Sometimes
they will buy an American Saddle Horse or Saddle Bred, which are
smaller. Occasionally, a few Morgans and crossbreed may be bought.
278. __ There are four types of horse-drawn buggies that are driven by
the Amish. The shapes and color of the buggies will tell you where that
particular Amish person is from: In Pennsylvania, the buggies have
straight sides and two seats with entrance ways to the front seat only.
The tops of the buggies can be black, gray, white, or several shades of
yellow. In Ohio, the buggies have angled-in sides, one seat, and the
tops are always black. In Indiana, the buggy top is built around the
base of the seat backrest. It has one seat and the tops are always
black. Swiss-style buggies have no tops at all in communities where tops
are not allowed. The buggy bodies are always black.
279. __ Within the four basic styles of buggies, there are many
sub-styles, depending on what each Amish district allows or forbids.
Details that vary include windows, dashboards, roll-up side and back
curtains, sliding doors, hinged doors, battery-operated lights, kerosene
or gas lanterns, storm fronts (windshields), sun visors, running gear,
steel tires, and rubber tires
280. __ There are many different kinds of Amish and each group has
different rules they follow. Some of these groups include the King
Amish, the Smucker Amish, the Zook Amish, the Amish Mennonite, the
Mifflin Amish, the Byler Amish, the Nebraska Amish, the Beachy Amish,
the Renno Amish, the Speicher Amish, the Weaver Amish, the
Swartzentruber Amish, the Yoder Amish, and the Troyer Amish.
281. __ The Nebraska Amish (named for a bishop from Nebraska who helped
them organize in 1881), who live in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, in
three distinct groups, are the most conservative of all the Amish. The
men wear brown trousers and white shirts, and their carriages have brown
bodies and white tops.
282. __ The Byler Amish in central Pennsylvania have bright yellow tops
on their buggies.
283. __ The Renno Amish and the Byler Amish of central Pennsylvania have
the unusual practice of wearing only one suspender to hold up their pants.
284. __ The Amish who live in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, ride in
carriages that have dark yellow-brown tops.
285. __ Amish in Ohio can also own Indiana-style buggies if they
immigrated to Ohio from Indiana (for example, in Hicksville and Belle
Center, Ohio).
286. __ The Amish who live in Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin own
Ohio-style buggies.
287. __ The Amish in Dover, Delaware, own buggies that are rounded on
the sides and a walk-in back door.
288. __ Although most Old Order Amish came to America in the 1700’s, a
second wave of immigrants came here in the 1800’s. These immigrants soon
lost their Amish identity but some remained in the Old Order. Because
they speak a dialect related to that of Berne, Switzerland, instead of
the German
Palatinate dialect of most Old Order Amish, they are known as Swiss
Amish. They were isolated from other Amish groups for about 100 years,
so their customs are somewhat different from other Old Order groups.
289. __ The “Swiss” Amish use only open buggies, those with no tops.
They live in Indiana in four groups.
290. __ All the attendants at an Amish wedding are of equal importance.
There is no best man or maid of honor.
291. __ Among the Amish, it is not unusual for a person to attend two or
three weddings in the same day since the festivities last all day and
evening.
292. __ When an Amish bride and groom walk in procession along with four
attendants through the narrow aisles of the packed living room, the
congregation sings the third verse of the “Lob Lied” (Praise Song),
which is the second song at most Amish church services).
293. __ In Pennsylvania, the wedding ceremony opens with the singing of
a famous German hymn called “So will ichs aber heben an, Singen in
Gottes Ehr.” This is followed by the “Lob Lied.” Then when the three men
and three women (bride and her two attendants and the groom with his two
attendants) sit down on six cane chairs facing each other, the sixth and
seventh verses of “So will ichs” be sung. The ministers enter on the
seventh verse.
294. __ When the Amish pray, they kneel facing the benches on which they
are sitting.
295. __ The promises (vows) at an Amish wedding are the same for the man
and for the woman. The vow, as the bishop presents it, goes this way:
“Can you confess, brother, that you accept this our sister as your wife,
and that you will not leave her until death separates you? And do you
believe that this is from the Lord and that you have come thus far by
your faith and prayers?” The man says yes to this. Of course, none of
this is said in English.
296. __ After the man and woman say yes to the bishop’s questions at the
wedding, the bishop addresses both the man and woman with these words
separately: “Because you have confessed, sister, that you want to take
this our brother for your husband, do you promise to be loyal to him and
care for him if he may have any adversity, affliction, sickness,
weakness, or faintheartedness--which many infirmities that are among
poor mankind--as is appropriate for a Christian, God-fearing wife?” The
woman says yes to this.
297. __ The bishop says finally at the wedding: “And he takes the hand
of the daughter and puts it in the hand of Tobias.” (a reference to a
marriage in the Apocryphal book of Tobit) “The God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob be with you together and give His rich
blessing upon you and be merciful to you. To this I wish you the
blessing of God for a good beginning and a steadfast middle time, and
may you hold out until a blessed end, this all in and through Jesus
Christ. Amen.” At the name of Christ, the bishop, groom, and bride
kneels. The bishops says, “Go forth in the name of the Lord. You are now
man and wife.” The bride and groom sit down on chairs..and the testimony
service then begins, involving different men in the congregation saying
things in agreement with the two sermons that were given just prior to
the wedding ceremony.
298. __ Among the Amish, a “roast” is chicken mixed with bread filling.
299. __ Creamed celery is a traditional wedding dish.
300. __ At a typical Amish wedding meal, it is not uncommon for all the
people to eat ten gallons of mashed potatoes, twenty quarts of cole
slaw, thirty cherry pies, four hundred doughnuts, fifty quarts of apple
sauce, ten quarts of gravy, and loads of fruit salad, tapioca pudding,
bread, butter, jelly, coffee, chicken, and creamed celery.
301. __ It a special Amish tradition to place jars of celery on the
wedding-meal tables at regular intervals so that the leaves of the
celery for a flower-like arrangement. If you see that an Amish farmer is
growing lots of
celery in his garden, it could be that his daughter is going to get
married soon.
302. __ Wedding gifts are not usually given at the wedding reception
(although some friends do give small gifts right after the wedding) but
later when the bride and groom visit relatives. Typical gifts include
kitchen items (dishes, pots, pans, storage containers, kitchen gadgets),
canned food, tools (shovels, digging irons, hammers, screwdrivers,
wrenches, wheelbarrows, rakes, buckets, kerosene lamps), and
furniture...everything a couple needs to set up housekeeping.
303. __ Sometimes the newly married Amish couple give out candy bars as
treats to the guests.
304. __ Throughout the day of an Amish wedding, snacks are placed on the
table and people can snack all day long until the evening meal. Snacks
like potato chips, raw celery, apples, cookies, and pudding are common.
305. __ The evening wedding meal is even larger than the noon meal.
Typical food served at the evening meal include stewed chicken over
homemade wafers, fried sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese, peas, cold
cut ham and cheese, pumpkin and lemon sponge cakes, and cookies.
306. __ At an Amish wedding meal, one often sees special wedding cakes
that are placed before the bride and groom, three at a time. In the
evening, six wedding cakes are actually eaten.
307. __ Ice cream is served as a special treat at the evening meal at
weddings. Couples must eat from the same dish.
308. __ Silent prayers are said both before and after the midday wedding
meal. A silent prayer is also said before the evening wedding meal.
After the meal, however, Christian songs are sung from the
Unpartheyisches Gesangbuch, a songbook containing songs that are a bit
more fast and lively. All the songs are sung in German but the lyrics
have nothing at all to do with the English melodies (which are borrowed
from hymns like “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” “Sweet Hour of
Prayer,” “How Great Thou Art,” “Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me,” and “Amazing
Grace.” In other words, the Amish are not singing German versions of
these English songs. They are just using the melodies. Even secular
Christmas tunes are used!
309. __ The wedding day ends around 11:45 p.m. in some instances but
often much later.
310. __ The day after the wedding, the newlywed couple must wash the the
tablecloths, towels, and other laundry. All the benches and tables are
removed from the house and the regular furniture put back in. The dishes
and silverware (general community property kept in chests and used at
every wedding) are cleaned and packed away. All this is done before a
9:00 breakfast.
311. __ Most Amish baptisms take place in September with a few done in
August.
312. __ Those wishing to be baptized in the Amish church must attend
nineteen instruction sessions that cover the eighteen articles of faith
found in the1632 Confession of Dortrecht and the Ordnung (or regulations
of the church).
313. __ The Amish confession of faith includes articles dealing with God
and the creation, the fall of man, the restoration of man through the
promise of the coming Christ, the advent of Christ into the world and
the reason of his coming, the law of Christ (which is the Holy Gospel or
New Testament), repentance and amendment of life, holy baptism, the
office of teachers and ministers in the church, the Lord’s Supper, the
washing of the saints’ feet, matrimony, the office of civil government,
defense by force, the swearing of oaths, excommunication or expulsion
from the church, the shunning of those expelled, and the resurrection of
the dead and the Last Judgment.
314. __ Amish ministers do not actually prepare sermons ahead of time.
They read the Bible a lot and, on the day of the church service, they
speak in church from their hearts. They often draw parallels between the
Old Testament and the New Testament.
315. __ The Amish prayer book is called the Christenpflicht (Christian
Duty).
316. __ For Communion, the Amish have two deacons bring in a loaf of
bread (wrapped in a white cloth) during the sermon and, after prayer is
offered, the bread is cut it into long strips. The bishop takes a strip
of bread, breaks it, and puts it in his mouth. He breaks off more pieces
and gives the pieces to every ordained man there and then to all the
laymen in the church and then to all the women in the church. They eat
the bread as they are given it. When everyone has been served, everyone
stands and a prayer is said. Then the wine is distributed in the same
order, each person drinking from a common cup.
317. __ In Amish churches (in the house), the men sit on one side of the
room and the women sit on the other side of the room.
318. __ In ordination (the process whereby ministers are chosen by the
Amish, all adult men are nominees if they receive at least two votes in
a secret-ballot election in the church. A sermon taken from I Timothy,
Chapter 3 is given on the topic of the qualifications of Christian
ministers. The names of the men receiving two votes are called out.
Let’s say that there are five men selected. Five hymn books are chosen
and a white slip of paper is placed in one hymnal and rubberbands are
put around the five books. On the slip of paper are the words taken from
Acts 1:24: “And they prayed and said, ‘Thou, Lord which knows th hearts
of all men, show whether of these two thou hast chosen.’” The place
where the word “two” goes is left blank and the number of candidates was
written into the blank. The books are then mixed up and placed upright
on a table. The five men, sitting all together, go over to the table and
select one book each. The bishop opens one book at a time. The man who
has the book with the slip in it is chosen to become a minister. He
often sobs and weeps because this is a solemn responsibility.
319. __ When a man has been chosen to become a minister, the bishop says
to the man, “If you can accept this service, you may rise to your feet.
I give you my hand; stand up.” The candidate stands up and the bishop
places his hand on the man’s shoulder and says in German, “In the name
of the Lord and the church is this ministry given you. You shall preach
the Word of the Lord to the people, encourage and admonish them to the
full extent of your ability. You shall be a servant for the church, you
shall help to work with the ordinances of the Lord. You shall preach of
the forefathers at the required times, and help to preach at funerals
where it is fitting and you are asked to help. When anyone wishes to
join church, you shall teach them the ordinances of God and the rules of
the church until such time as they become members of the Church. Our
Almighty God will strengthen you in this work with His good and Holy
Spirit, for we ask it in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Amen.”
320. __ After ordination (becoming a minister), the bishop kisses the
minister and the other candidates kiss him as do all the ordained men in
attendance and finally all the men of the church. The women of the
church greet the new minister’s wife with holy kisses. They give the new
minister words of encouragement and support.

I took it, and did not get all right.

What about you, Mikey?

 




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