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IMAGES of PANDEMIC that devastated COG financially

doyle · Acts-celerate Owner Posts: 6957 **2/18/20 9:33 pm**

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=images+from+1918+flu+pandemic&form=HDRSC2&first=1&cw=1117&ch=443

How it was that a World-Wide Pandemic devastated the COG and caused
a GENERAL ASSEMBLY to be cancelled...http://www.actscelerate.com/viewtopic.php?t=89793
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Re: IMAGES of PANDEMIC that devastated COG financially

Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **2/19/20 3:41 pm**

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There are only estimates of the number

Acts-celerate Owner Posts: 6957 **2/20/20 1:23 am**

I've read that stat too, but I think that was an estimation of the number who died world-wide. It seems nobody knows for certain but estimates of deaths in the U.S. at that time, ranged from 120,000 to 500,000 thousand.

Even with computers these days, the China Corona Virus is showing that it is still difficult to come up with accurate numbers, ESPECIALLY when China may be intentionally working to suppress the totals.
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The first year of the Bible Training School ...

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1994 **2/22/20 9:07 am**

The first year of the Bible Training School in Cleveland, one of the students died of the flu. AJT and Mary Tomlinson made part of their home a dorm for the unmarried students (also fed them their meals), and one of the students died in their home. In his diary, AJT reported several had been sick (including himself) with what he thought was the flu.

During that time, the Wilson administration was more concerned with the COG teaching of members not going to war than the effects of the flu. The church (and AJT) were subject to investigations and if I remember correctly the Evangel was censored.

It is said that doctors and nurses often refused to treat those who suffered from the flu, and towns people avoided contact. It was often left up to people of faith to take care of the sick and dying.

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