Blind Girl’s Gift

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 16, 1873

Blind Girl’s Gift.

A CLERGYMAN relates that a girl deprived of sight brought him thirty shillings for the missionary cause. He objected, “You are a poor blind girl, and cannot afford to give so much.” “I’m indeed blind,” said she, “but can afford to give these thirty shillings better, perhaps, than you suppose.” “How so?” “I am, sir, by trade a basket-maker, and can work as well in the dark as in the light. Now, I am sure, in the last winter it must have cost those girls who have eyes more than thirty shillings for candles to work by, which I have saved, and therefore hope you will take it for the missionaries.”