Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-16
rUBERcuLosrs SUNDAY.

cunuay, april "a, has Deen CHOSEN Dy
the National Committee Of the Associa.
ton for the Study and Prevention oil
tuberculosis as Tuberculosis Sunday"
On that day, in most of the churches in
the land the gospel Of health will be
preached, and it is reported from head.
quarters that on that day more people
will hear the good tidipgs of new era
in health protection than ever before
heard such a message on one day in the
civilized world.
From time to time, the Argus-Leader
has told its readers Of the great good
which has already been accomplished in
the study of Tuberculosis, and the sys-
tematic work being done to stop the
spread of the disease. Millions of money
have been poured into the fight against
consumption, and millions more are
ready to go into the campaign 1t is a
campaign of education. The undertak-
ing is to eradicate the disease by educat-
ing the people in the way of its prsven-
sumption is now listed as a preventable
disease, and this being so the obligation
to stop its frightful annual harvest must
be accepted by the people. The church
of Christ stands for the good of men,
and one can think Of no better effort it
could make for the bodily welfare of
men than to enlist under the banner of
the present fight of tuberculosis.
DR.. Charles F. Asked, pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, of New
York, in speaking of this movement,
said:
II am profoundly thankful to know
that the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
is planning on great scale National
tuberculosis Sunday. shall be glad
to cooperate to the limit of my ability
and opportunity. In the old days q
doctors diagnosis, Consumption, was
regarded as a sentence of death, and
the prevalence of tuberculosis was
thought of in the light of some mysteri-
Gus visitation Of God. Today We know
that tuberculosis is curable, and, what
promises even more for the human race,
that it is preventable. Preventable dis
eases ought to be prevented. And the
Church of the Living God, with the
memory of Him whom We love to call
the Good Physician, of whom it is
recorded that He went about doing
good, and that He healed many that
were sick of divers Diseases should be
in the van Of those who love their fel-
lows, seeking to prevent preventab BILE
ills. The world is cursed by ignorance
and darkness. 1t lie to be blessed by
knowledge and light. tuberculosis is
born Of ignorance; it flourishes in the
darkness. And if the light of the
knowledge Of the glory of God shines
from the face of Jesus Christ into the
Church, it must stream again from the
Church into dark homes and into dark
lives and the dark places of the city
where the physical and moral evils
abound. Social problems are spiritual
at heart. We worship God by serving
man. And l wish you every success in
your effort to enlist the enthusiastic and
consecrated service Of the Christian
Church.
DR.. Lawrence F. Flick, of Philadel-
phia, the famous specialist and organ
izer, said:
"No body of men has better vantage
ground for good work in the crusade
against tuberculosis than clergymen.
They are in close touch with the people
who need education and what they say
will be accepted as from authority. Such
cause as the stamping out of plague
must appeal to them as it exemplifies
the quintessence of religion. Every
clergyma in the land should become q
teacher of the doctrine of health and
preventing medicine. He should, more
over, as leader of men become a living
active force in the world movement for
stamping out consumption" - Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader