p. 17 | Eyes for the Blind by CHAS. N. MILLER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 1, 1910

Eyes for the Blind

By CHAS. N. MILLER

Since January last, Mrs. Miller and I have been in the West, working in the interests of the Christian Record, our magazine for the blind. From Vancouver, Wash., on the north, to San Diego, Cal., on the south, we met a hearty response to our call for means to send this blessed gospel to the sightless. Several public institutions and many blind persons were visited, and from them we received much encouragement.

Truly we have spread a feast in the way of literature for those who can see. We are now printing 333 bound volumes, filled with every phase of the message; 1,096 tract messengers; 287 pamphlets, with their extensive exegesis on present truth; and 117 monthly or weekly journals. We have done a great work for those who can see; but we must also make a feast for “the poor, the lame, the maimed, the blind.”

The Christian Record is your living missionary, telling the glad story to the blind. At the present time more than two thousand copies go monthly to gladden the hearts of the sightless ones. During the past year a free circulating library has been connected with the office, in which are fourteen tracts and pamphlets, but not a bound volume. These tracts have done good work in helping some of our readers to understand the message. Some have even read this library through, and are calling for more of the literature that brings them light, hope, and comfort.

As all literature for the blind is sent post free by the government, these tracts and pamphlets can be sent to the readers and returned to the office without expense either to them or to us. So when once a library is filled, it can be read and reread until it is entirely worn out.

We believe this to be an economical plan of operating a missionary library for the thousands of blind in the United States.

Brother, sister, this call is to you. Help this poor people, who are robbed of earth’s comforts and blessings, to the hope which brings joy and peace unspeakable. This gospel is for all, and all must receive its warning. In the parable the call to the supper was first given to the man of wealth, to the busy man, to the men and women of every-day pursuits, but they all with one accord began to make excuse. Then the servant was bidden to call the poor, the lame, the maimed, the blind, that the master’s house might be filled.

In Prov. 3:27, 28, we read: “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.” And again (Neh. 8:10): “Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared.”

It is in your power to help in the great philanthropic work of the Christian Record Publishing Company in sending the embossed literature to the poor blind. All contributions should be sent to the secretary, Miss Mettie Cornell, College View, Neb. CHAS. N. MILLER.