Young People

Sally Froes Dyck

 
   
 

Following is a short excerpt from a book entitled Sarmem: Sara's Memoirs written by Sally Froese Dyck in 1998. Sally has donated 50 copies of this book to the Essex-Kent Mennonite Historical Association. All book sale proceeds go to the Association for which we are most grateful. $10 each; 100 pages. Available from the EKMHA at 31 Pickwick Drive, Leamington, Ontario, N8H 4T5.  Phone: 519-322-0456. Open weekday mornings.

YOUNG PEOPLE

 Sally was still receiving "The Kinderbote" and while she was reading it, she noticed an article written by a Mr. B.B. Fast. Mr. Fast said that if anyone could find a chapter in the Bible that had a lot of "I's" in it, memorize the first ten verses of the chapter and recite them to someone who would then send in a letter to him that they had done so, Mr. Fast would send them a gift.

          

           

 

 Sally showed the letter the article to Anne Epp (granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Langeman) and they decided to try and find the chapter. Sally was going to read the Old Testament and Anne would do the New.

Every evening, Sally spent some time reading the Bible, but soon Pa said that maybe she should start with the Psalms. Sure enough, when she got to Psalm 119, she found it. This was all in German, of course, and she found 129 "Ich's" and many "mir, mich and meines" (me, my and mine). Sally was glad that Pa had advised her. It would have taken her a long time to get to the Psalms and Anne was leaving for Manitoba in spring.

            The girls didn't take long memorizing the first ten verses (in German, of course). They were glad they only had to memorize ten verses because the chapter has 176 of them. They asked Mr. Rempel (Rev. Abram) to listen to them recite the verses on Sunday afternoon and he was only too happy to do it for them and then sent a letter to Mr. Fast, verifying that they had, indeed, memorized the verses. Sally received a nice letter from Mr. Fast and a book of St. John. The book has headings to explain the verses and Sally treasured it. After she had read it, she put it with her keepsakes and still had it in her old age.

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