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Did General Conferences close down during the “Spanish Flu”?


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In April we will have another virtual General Conference, for the third time. Having such meetings are much easier in this “Information Age”, but what happened 100 years ago during the Spanish Flu? Was General Conference closed during this time period when Church boundaries barely reached beyond Utah, and the West? I am unable to find out what happened then??? 

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Reemphasizing the inspired assessment and guidance from Church leaders. Copied from this post by halconero

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"There is every evidence of a very serious recrudescence of the influence trouble, there there is a manifest disinclination on the part of the newspapers to publish the full facts. This is said to be the result of pressure brought upon the papers by the business men, who insist that the enforced suspension of public assemblies and free business operations is bringing to them a loss that cannot be longer endured. Lives are being sacrificed in the interest of dollars.

While the physicians freely admit that the present scourge is a mystery disease, they are all agreed upon the fact that it is spread by contact, and that close assemblies are the principal means of communication. Today we have to mourn the departure of Bishop Edwin F. Sheets, Bishop of 33rd Ward, Liberty Stake, and Secretary of the General Board of Religion Classes. His wife and two children became infected with the influenza, and he contracted it in waiting upon them. He was one of our most useful men, and is cut off in the very prime of his activity, a victim of the dread scourge that is sweeping the land."

 

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14 hours ago, Bill “Papa” Lee said:

In April we will have another virtual General Conference, for the third time. Having such meetings are much easier in this “Information Age”, but what happened 100 years ago during the Spanish Flu? Was General Conference closed during this time period when Church boundaries barely reached beyond Utah, and the West? I am unable to find out what happened then??? 

Pienso que sí, señor!

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