Don’t Believe in Quarantines
Landrum, S.C., Route 1
Oct. 28
Polk County News
Gentlemen:
I have
heard so much said about the influenza that I wish to drop a thought. Some seem
to think it best not to go any where one has it, and not to go to funerals.
Will we let the dead bury the dead? Will we take man’s way of looking at
things? I will say no. I want us not to forget the Great Book. In this trying
time let us not forget the Great God, the father of Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob, and if our Maker teaches us not to visit the sick, then we will not be
guilty of sin, and I move that we turn to the Book and see if it doesn’t say to
visit the sick and weep with them that weep, and rejoice with them that
rejoice, and to do good to all men, especially those of the household of faith.
Now God said to pray for our enemy and to love our neighbor as ourself.
Let’s not
let the price of cotton and the influenza and the war make us forget the great
God who has power to make us alive. The Heavenly Father is better to us than we
are to Him. He said if we loved Him we would keep His commandments. How many
fail to do that? He also said to not forget the assembling of ourselves
together. That means to be at services in the church. It said not to judge but
that we could judge a tree by the fruit it bears. All the folks in this
neighborhood don’t go to church or Sunday school. God said every knee should
bow. I feel like this is the time to get on them. God has never told an
untruth.
Now
please put this in the News, the best
paper ever published in Polk county.
A Reader
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