DEAFNESS OF THE AGED

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1880

DEAFNESS OF THE AGED.

Nothing is more common than to hear old people utter querulous complaints about their deafness; but those who do so are not perhaps aware that this infirmity is the result of an express and wise arrangement of Providence in constructing the human body. The gradual loss of hearing is affected for the best purpose, it being intended to give ease and quietude to the decline of life, when any noise or sounds from without but discomposes the enfeebled mind, and prevents meditation. Indeed, the gradual withdrawal of all the senses, and the decay of the frame in old age have been wisely ordained in order to wean the human mind from the concerns and pleasures of the world, and to induce a longing for a perfect state of existence.