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Spanish flu epidemic

ARCHIVES: Readers Urge Sunset Prayer, Street Processions

Letters to the Editor from TLC's October 26, 1918 issue give points for intercession during the Spanish flu epidemic and suggest processions to marshal the "terrible artillery of little children's prayers."

ARCHIVES: 1918 Philadelphia Clergy Oppose Church Closing

Twenty-two of the Episcopal clergy of Philadelphia lodged a protest against the banning of public worship in the city, whose failure to take early social distancing measures resulted in the highest death toll for any major city in the 1918 influenza epidemic.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The 1918 Epidemic and the Churches

TLC's editorial at the height of the 1918 flu pandemic urges cooperation by churches in preventing the disease and daily eucharistic worship for God's help for the suffering.

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