Serendipity: An Ode to Germs

Image from Anglican General Synod Archives, Toronto, ON.

I am in the midst of researching the Canadian churches and their reaction to the First World War. My task this month is to read through the wartime denominational periodicals.
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One of my small pleasures in life is finding interesting items in my archival research, things that I did not expect to find. Today I found "An Ode to Germs" in the Canadian Churchman, an Anglican weekly newspaper. In light of our present day pandemic - and the one that occurred in 1918 - the brief poem is interesting to say the least, if not prescient.