p. 4 | Light for the Blind by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 18, 1908

Light for the Blind

By W. A. S.

As showing how God's providence is sending the light of his Word into the darkest corners, note the fact that the British Bible Society is supplying the Gospels in raised Braille type for the blind in the following languages of India: Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, and Gujarati.

In China, blind colporteurs are employed to scatter the Scriptures, gathering a crowd by reading aloud with their fingers upon the raised print, and then selling the ordinary Scripture portions. Blind Chinese Bible women read in the mission hospitals. “The Chinese blind,” says the Society’s report, “can learn to read Braille much more rapidly than the sighted can master the intricate native characters.”

The Society’s English Bible, in raised Braille type, “fills thirty-nine volumes, which occupy a shelf seven feet long.” It is an expensive book to produce, but is sold much below cost. It costs about seventy-five cents a volume, and is sold for twenty-five cents; in fact, portions are given away if need be.

Thus the word of the kingdom, whose glories “eye hath not seen,” is brought near to the blind in these last days. How many among us are aware that every year, of late, numbers of blind persons have been brought to the full acceptance of the precious light of the third angel’s message by reading our own paper for the blind, the Christian Record?

The recent council of the General Conference Committee took action especially urging our people to help circulate this paper among the blind in every State. The paper costs two dollars a year, and for this amount sent to your tract society office or to the Christian Record, College View, Neb., the publishers will send this paper, bearing the light of present truth, to some blind person for one year.

Thank God for the gift of sight granted you, and do not forget this way of helping those who are denied the joy of looking upon the beauties of this world, but who may be brought to rejoice in the hope of the world to come, where the eyes of the blind will be opened. W. A. S.