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Originally Posted by Hoovie
Try telling someone you took a horse and buggy five miles to church, then listened to High German sermon even though you and most in attendance were more fluent in another German dialect or English. Why? Well why not? We have done this for four hundred years! Lol!
Following this we would sing a few slow monotone hymns, wiyh the same words and in similar fashion as our persecuted brethren did while fleeing persecution and hiding in caves.
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Speaking of which... "The Ausbund the oldest Christian song book in continuous use. It is used today by North American Amish congregations."
Some of our songs were from the Ausbund.
Here is an interesting tidbit from Wiki
"The collection was printed in 1564. A copy of this first printing is found at the Mennonite Historical Library of Goshen College, bearing the title Etliche schöne christliche Gesäng wie dieselbigen zu Passau von den Schweizer Brüdern in der Gefenknus im Schloss durch göttliche Gnade gedicht und gesungen warden.
Ps. 139 (Genuinely Beautiful Christian Songs Which Were Written and Sung Through God's Grace by the Swiss Brethren in the Passau Castle Prison)."