BECAUSE SHE WAS BLIND

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1893

BECAUSE SHE WAS BLIND.

A SUFFICIENT excuse for pettishness, and selfishness, and grumbling, one might suppose—but what a reason for giving!

At a missionary meeting in Paris a poor blind woman put twenty-seven francs into the plate. “You cannot afford so much,” said the man who was holding the plate. “Yes, I can,” she answered. And on being pressed to tell how she could give so much, she said: “I am blind; and I said to my fellow straw workers, ‘How much money do you spend in the year for oil for your lamps, when it is too dark to work nights?’ They added it up in their minds, and found it was twenty-seven francs. So,” said the poor woman, “I found that I save twenty-seven francs in the year because I am blind and do not need a lamp, and I give it to send light to the dark heathen lands.”—Sel.