Recovery of Sight by F. D. Starr

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 9, 1911

Recovery of Sight

By F. D. Starr

THINKING it might be of interest to my acquaintances to know something of my experience in the loss of my sight, I wish to say, to the glory of God, that I have been in a large measure relieved of that difficulty.

Five years ago last June I discovered that my left eye was affected with cataract. It was about a year becoming blind. The right eye continued to be good for about three years longer, when it also began to fail from the same cause. One year ago it began to be difficult for me to read, and last August I had become so nearly blind that I could not read at all, and could scarcely see to get around. In September I went to our sanitarium at College Place, and there had performed by a Walla Walla physician a surgical operation on the left eye, which had then been blind for four and one-half years. After a three weeks' stay at the sanitarium, I came away with sight restored in that eye, so that with the aid of proper glasses, I can now see to read the finest print, and travel about with little inconvenience. It requires much skill to perform such a delicate operation, but I do not attribute all the credit to man. I believe the words of the prophet apply here: “This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.” Isa. 28: 29. I feel under renewed obligation to render to him more fully my sight, which he has given me, and every other faculty of my being. To him be lasting praise for his benefits to the children of men. I am glad to say that, by his grace, I did not worry a particle about the outcome during this period of temporary and partial blindness,—the months and years during which my sight was leaving me. My right eye is now totally blind, but hardly ready for an operation.

F. D. STARR.