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SORROW TURNED INTO JOY

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 9.

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SORROW TURNED INTO JOY.

A poor blind girl, residing in one of the provinces of France, had for many years, as her greatest comfort, perused an embossed Bible with her fingers. Getting out of health, and becoming partially paralyzed, the hand also was affected, and gradually all power of touch was lost. Her agony of mind at the deprivation was great, and in a moment of despair, she took up her Bible, bent down her head, and kissed the open leaf, by way, as she supposed, of a last farewell. In the act of doing so, to her great surprise and sudden joy, she felt the letters distinctly with her lips, "and from that day the poor child was able to read the word of God."—Selected.