St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-03-26
DAY ON
The TWENTY FOURTH
OF APRIL.
Ministers Asked to Deliver Ser
mon on Subject on that Day
"A Great Work.

Study and Prevention Of tuberculosis
has addressed the ministers Of the
Gospel a letter asking them to make
that day one for a special sermon on
the subject:
Sunday, April ID, has been declared
Tuberculosis Day" The National
Association for the Study and Proven
ton CT tuberculosis wants you to help
observe it.
You are requested to preach your
people a sermon on that day which
shall put before them the cause and
the nature of the great White Plague,
and the means which modern %inyesti-
cation has proved to be useful in pre-
venting and curing it.
Leprosy was a plague upon some
of the old peoples Of the Bible and
made wretched outcasts Of great
colonies Of Gods men and women.
Jesus Of Nazareth did not deem the
meanest of these sufferers beneath
His care. It is written that He healed
lepers when they presented them
selves to him.
tuberculosis carries more of Gods
men and women down to the dust to-
lay than ever the scourge of leprosy
did while The Nazarene walked in
Galilee. Their care is upon US all.
Leprosy and the black plague have
generally disappeared among many
peoples whom once they harried. The
Gospel of Cleanliness has done its
work for them.
The White Plague is going the
same, but the distance is long and
he road is hard. You are asked to
mold up the torches along the path.
Ignorance and Indifference are she
:ather and mother Of the modern
T#
-courge. If every man and woman
Knew, and every child we're taught,
he facts that science has uncovered,
md all would observe the simple rules
ounded on these facts, the plague
would die in a generation, and men
md women would live longer and
happier.
Help to spread the light. Garry
your share Of the freight. Learn
something about tuberculosis and
hen tell everybody what you have
learned.
Build you a discourse on the subject
Make this sosimple that every boy and
girl IN YUur congregation vii taaaaer-
stand what you are talking about. i
you need information to fill in the out
lines, go to the library Of the Medica
Society of Orleans Parish and get it
r apply to the Louisiana Anti-Tuber.
ulosis Society.
If you are still dubious about it
ask the society to assign you some
iuent medical man to help out. 4
wouldn't be sacrilege even It q MAI
If medicine occupied your pulpit. 4
Minister is merely ono who serves
somebody else. Jesus vas a %carpentel
for thirty years, End a priest for only
rec; but he was a minister all hi.
life.
When you have got you the bes
sermon you know how to write, thel
look it over and make it better
Whatever you do make it simpler
and try to make it snapper.
! Some preachers resent the apDlica
ton # the word snappy to a sermon
! These are generally poor preachers
Preaching the gospel is dull business
if you can't get anybody interested i
it, and fruitless, too.
The gospel Of the apostles and tn
Y gospel of health are deeper, roblel
and more enhancing than most Of tn
subjects that the yellow journal treats
But the yellow journal is general
snappy and the gospel discourse j
often soggy, and the Man Out Yonde
4 usually notices the difference; and h
knows which he likes the better
he didn't need regeneration ther
would be no use preaching to lil
f anyhow; and he stays home and read
the yellow journal while you go int
} the sanctuary and preach the sermon
y If YOU made the sermon as simple an
snappy as the yellow editor makes hi
paper, the paper would suspend il
. Sunday edition.
50, now, Brothers in the Vineyard
try to get you simple and snappy Sc
. mons about tuberculosis for April 2
TelI the wonderful story Of the di
o eases generation in a microcosm-
how it swarms and breeds in the dar