Reader not impressed in the least with story or Amish Country Theater
Letter to the Editor:
May I write on behalf of the perhaps greater portion of the Amish population in our area?
This is concerning the article, “Digs and Giggles,” in the Aug. 18, 2018, issue of The Bargain Hunter. No, we are not impressed in the least with the Amish Country Theater.
What a person laughs at tells a lot about a person’s character. Yes, “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones,” Proverbs 17:22. But there is a limit. “Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.”
I am sorry to hear the name of God is mixed up in all these “digs and giggles.” Concerning the Amish and others from a plain background, have they forgotten the price Christianity has paid in the past by being ridiculed, laughed at, mocked, and deviled and scorned? Our forefathers paid the price and sealed it with their own blood. Now here some of the very posterity attends theatrical functions in order to laugh at senseless humor.
Why is it so necessary to publish the bit on the part that even the Amish endorse it? Those that come in the area (Amish) from elsewhere (even here) should remember their own ministry may be dismayed by their attendance. Often depth of spiritual connection is utterly lacking, else they would not attend.
We must all reckon someday with the judge of all judges. Who will plead for the cause of our souls if we missed out on our lesson of truth and finality?
It is not very honorable to call it Amish Country Theater. Why is it not called by some other title such as Mennonite or Baptist?
No, we have no need for such a function here amongst our plain community. It only adds to the genre of the worldly things to draw away from true spiritual living.
As in the days of Jerusalem in Ezekiel 16:49, God warned them with severe judgements for their iniquities saying, “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
Yes, there are many benefits set up around us to help the needy. But see how a lot of it is done. Would we feel indebted to participate if it would be for all the action involved? We are humans, and humans love action. But when praying in sincerity and truth is not a part of interaction, how can God bless?
Let us encourage one another to live temperate lives typical of a heavenly pilgrimage on earth.
Respectfully,
Wayne Miller
Millersburg