Word: amish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yoder filed suit because he has had the ban placed upon him. To be "mited" means that a former good member of the Amish Church has gone astray from the Amish interpretation of the Bible, and although he may continue to sleep in Amish homes, he is shunned. Members are advised not to eat with the offender, to refrain from any business dealings or associations with him, and in general to disregard...
This letter is not to condone "miting"; it is rather an explanation to help uninformed readers understand the situation. . . . Yoder repeatedly has shown himself out of harmony with the home-and peace-loving Amish. He has himself admitted that he is a saloon adventurer, and any respectable denomination frowns upon such caperings. He has shown himself to be temperamental and incompatible. This is the complete opposite of the life which a Christian should live and which the Church of the Amish teaches. Despite this, Yoder has insisted on remaining an Amishman, continues to wear a beard and wants...
...years thereafter, Yoder was "mited." He was a social outcast. No Amish cobbler would fix his shoes. Even his brother Dan could not eat with him. When he was out threshing, he had to take his meals in barns or cellars-alone. Said he: "It was like feeding the dog out of a dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs...
...longer. The mited man filed suit for $40,000 in Wayne County Common Pleas Court against the Bishop and his elders and asked the court also to make the elders call off the "shun." Last week in Wooster, a jury of nine men and three women, none of them Amish, listened sympathetically as the thin-faced, round-bearded Yoder retailed his woes...
...agreed with Andrew but reduced the damages from $40,000 to $5,000. The court ordered the church to lift the mite. Andrew seemed satisfied, said, "I think they will think for some time before they put on any more bans." He would be permitted to worship in an Amish Church but he would have no voice in the church or be admitted to communion. To the stubborn Amishmen, who frown upon court actions, God's law came before that of men. Andrew would still be under a mite of a mite...