Sunday, January 24, 2021

Sermons and Leprosy

As often happens with sermons, the preacher spoke of leprosy this morning. As a child (the 1960s), our world included lepers, and child lepers -- leprosy is most common in childhood -- but we had solemn instructions not to touch them. As might be expected, the leprous children chased the rest, including me -- and we (me and my friends) taunted them. It was a game of Catch-Me-If-You-Can. OBSERVATION: It seems to me there was no treatment programme, which I do not understand, as leprosy was treatable in my youth. Perhaps it was too remote a place. 

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