Literature for the Blind
By L. N. Muck
PAUSE with me for a moment to consider the quarter of a million blind in this country. Were you permitted to visit them, you would find them in a pitiable condition. Thousands of them are isolated, with no religious privileges, and without a single thing to read. They are left to pine away the long hours with nothing to encourage or comfort them. Let us go to them with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and we shall be able through the gospel to break the fetters of sin now holding in bondage thousands of blind men and women. Let us speedily carry this message to those perishing within our reach. Nothing save the gospel of Jesus Christ will lift them out of the pit into which they have been forced. Dear reader, are you anxious about the blind? The following is a quotation from a letter just received from one of our blind readers:— “Still the Record has been coming to my home all the time, and I have been enjoying the contents of it very much indeed, and have received much benefit as well as pleasure from reading its pages. I have enjoyed it much more than any other point magazine which I have received; and I do not doubt that you are pleased to hear that the readers of the Record derive both pleasure and Christian benefits from carefully reading its pages. It is a magazine full of beautiful thoughts; and the Christian truths it teaches are beyond human value. I know and believe that the editor himself is a Christian man, and this makes the magazine of much more value. The good done for the blind is the prevailing feature throughout, and so we who read it should be willing to contribute20toward its support. In short, it has done me a world of good, and has enlightened my mind on many a Christian truth which would have been otherwise a blank to my mind. Through its vivid pages, I have learned many things about different blind people, which probably otherwise I should not have known.” This quotation is one of many received at our office; and it should stir us to a full sense of duty. And in behalf of those appealing to us for the gospel truths, we beseech you in the name of God, to consider the needs of these unfortunate, perishing souls. Dear reader, do you appreciate your sight, and all that you enjoy in the way of literature and scores of other blessings? If so, make a thank offering for the benefit of the publishing work for the blind. By so doing, you will aid us, through the Christian Record, to point thousands to the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world. This work should have its proper place in the message. We should not overlook the blind in our haste to spread the gospel. Brethren, while you are giving to the different enterprises, do not forget to share your means with your less favored brethren and sisters. “Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.” The Christian Record is printed in two systems,—the American braille and the New York point. Those sending in subscriptions or names of blind people should determine, if possible, which system they read. The price of the magazine is two dollars a year. Send all subscriptions and donations to the secretary, Miss Katie Coleman, College View, Neb., and all funds will be turned over to the treasurer of the Central Union Conference.