THE BLIND MAN SAW IT

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1904

THE BLIND MAN SAW IT.

A NOTED infidel was once traveling in a car in which a minister was seated, with whom he commenced an argument in a loud tone so as to be heard by the other passengers, among whom was a blind man who listened attentively. Turning suddenly to him the infidel said:—

"Do you, sir, believe in a God who has made this beautiful earth and the sun to shine upon it, and who has adorned the heavens with myriads of stars, and yet, without any offense on your part, has deprived you forever of the power of beholding them?"

"I am surprised, my dear sir," replied the man, "that you should ask me such a question. I believe in the existence of a God as firmly as I do in my own, and I could doubt the one as easily as the other. There is one thing which strikes me as peculiar in what you have said. When you reason of God you don't seem to be governed by the same principles as when reasoning about men and the common affairs of every-day life."

The infidel denied the inference, and the blind man continued: "Suppose, sir, on reaching your home, and on entering your room, you find a lighted lamp upon the table, what would be your conclusion?". "Why," answered the infidel, with one of his accustomed stock-in-trade sneers, "I should conclude that some one placed it there."

"Well, then," said the blind man, "when you look into the heavens and see what I can not, those innumerable lights of which you have spoken, why do you not come to the same conclusion—that some intelligent being placed them there?"

The discomfited skeptic declined to talk any more on the subject, but it was evident to the passengers that he felt thoroughly humbled and uncomfortable.