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THE BLIND MAN AND THE YOUTH

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 30, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 22.

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THE BLIND MAN AND THE YOUTH.

One day, as Le Clerc, a great critic, was walking in the streets of Paris, he accidentally trod on the foot of a young man. The young man immediately raised his hand, and smote him in the face. Le Clerc said, “Sir, you will be sorry for what you have done, when you know that I am blind.”
Sometimes you hold a harsh opinion of a man, and you are angry with him; but if you would take the trouble to inquire, you would perhaps find some defect that entitles that man to your compassion as much as a blind one who trod on your foot in the streets.—Sel.