Читать книгу Amish Promise: A Sequel to Amish Dilemma - Sioux Dallas - Страница 8

Preface

If you read my novel Amish Dilemma, you learned a lot about the truth of the Amish and their beliefs. You learned how passive and forgiving they are and hard working.

Of course they are human just like any other people. A few bad ones can be found in the group, but they are generally taken care of, by the church, as soon as they are discovered. They punish their own.

In Amish Dilemma I wrote of a young couple who married, not for love, but because their families expected it. They quickly became very much in love and adored each other. They worked hard to make a home and to be good church members and good neighbors.

When the young woman, Charity, was in labor with their first baby, her husband, Adam Kime, was taking her to the hospital in a horse-drawn buggy. An English (one not an Amish) was drinking and hated the Amish. He deliberately ran his car toward the horse, honking his horn and yelling. The horse jumped, out of fright, and the car hit the side of the buggy. The horse, which the young couple loved dearly, was injured so badly she had to be put down. The young husband was killed and the young mother gave birth to a healthy boy on the same night her husband was killed.

Charity named the little boy Jeremiah.

Her father, Jacob Startz, and her father-in-law, Joshua Kime bought a building in town to give to Charity because they knew Charity was too proud to accept help. They convinced her to open a store where she became well known for her integrity and industriousness. Even English began to trade with her and loved her. Some of her relatives and friends volunteered to help.

Charity was successful and, even though she was a nineteen year old widow and mother, she worked hard and planned ahead.

This story follows Amish Dilemma. I hope you enjoy it as much as you did Amish Dilemma. I am forever grateful for your wonderful comments and encouragement.

God bless you all.