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Slow drain of holiness is having negative impact

To the editor:

As a lifelong resident of this county, I feel we need to take a look at what’s happening.

First I would like to address the declining conditions of our churches.

Stop and look around. Dwindling membership, churches closing, no one seems to care anymore about the slow drain of holiness in our churches. It’s gone so far as to say “who needs the church?”

Look at what’s happening to our children. I heard a figure of one-parent households is around 25 percent and this is terrible. It takes longer to get a driver’s license than a marriage license. Fathers and mothers walking out on dear little children, no rules or regulations, children left to make it on their own. Deadbeat moms and dads, wake up! You brought them into this world now take the initiative to raise them. Don’t expect our school teachers to raise your children.

I look around and see good ole retired teachers such as Don and Joyce Furher, Stan Miller, Harry Rothrock, the Quays, Wagners, Schaffs, etc. and many more I don’t have time to mention. These people worked hard to give your children an education, so please take the initiative to bring your children up as a good father and mother working together.

Now this decline and fall in Mifflin County is so evident in the sports programs. Once we were looked up to by surrounding school districts — Chief Logan, Kish, Lewistown, Rothrock and it’s come down to the place where our children have lost their pride. The smaller schools mentioned above produced “state champs.” Yes, we still have state champs in individual sports … wrestling. Why? The drive of parents who care, so what does this tell you?

Get back to the “old fashioned” way of family. Mom and Dad raising the family together teaching manners, values, respect and most of all teach your children the Ten Commandments. Don’t expect the teachers to do it for you. We took them out of everything and the roof fell in. Get God Almighty back in the home and see what he could do to fix the problem.

Also I want to inform you I am not the local pastor trying to get this ship back on even keel. I do care for our little children from K-12. I do have a reason for concern. My lovely wife and I have five beautiful children, 13 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and one on the way and we love and cherish each and every one of them and can tell you God has been so good. Try him. You’ll see he can make a big beautiful difference. And I am so proud to sign my name.

Robert E. Knable

McVeytown

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