Papers Read Before the Lebanon County Historical Society, Vol. 7: The Genesis of Der Pihwie with Reminiscences of Its Author; Who Discovered America?: ... Who Discovered America? (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lebanon County Historical Society, Vol. 7: The Genesis of "Der Pihwie" With Reminiscences of Its Author; Who Discovered America?

The fact is well known and is discreditable that many per sons are ashamed of their pennsylvania-german ancestry, and resort to divers means to disown the language of their fore fathers, and some even to change their family names. This is so in the case of some few High School and College boys, who, when returning after spending a few years at these schools, ridicule their good Pennsylvania - German mother tongue, and often do s-o.in broken, ungrammatical, bastard, bombastic and Germanic - English. The author of Der Pihwie in a sermon preached at Lancaster, Penna, says the following of these persons: Shame on him who dis-owns his ancestry; he reproaches the blood in his own veins; he brands himself as a hypocrite in the eyes of his neighbours. There are some who still seem to imagine that he who can speak our Penn sylvania-german necessarily is ignorant, and that he who un derstands two languages knows less than he who knows only one. 0 jam satis! This is a preachmg of our good D'o-ctor to which all in the-congregation should respond with a unanim ous, a most hearty and emphatic, Amen! Let the fathers con tinue to be reverenced.

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