HOW HE ANSWERED INFIDELITY.
An instance of a blind man's familiarity with the Bible, which ought to bring the blush to some cheeks that enclose eyes flashing with light, was related by Robert E. Speer in one of his Northfield addresses. Last year we had a meeting with some Korean Christians who had known the Gospel but a few years. I said to them: "Now, you know that not everybody in America believes in this Gospel. The majority of the people in our country are not followers of Jesus; and, as to this Bible, there are a great many who do not believe in it; and some day they will come here, and they will tell you these things. Is your faith in Christ and this Bible dependent on your belief that a great nation, mightier and wiser than you, believes in Christ and the Bible? Or does it rest on other grounds? What will you say, when men come and question your faith in Christ and His Word?" There was a young man sitting down on the floor, who had been blind from his early childhood, with the marks of the disease that had made him blind all over his face. He raised his head, and said: "I will tell you what I would say. I would answer him in the words of the nineteenth and twentieth verses of the fourth chapter of Acts: 'Whether it be right in the sight of God to harken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.'" I said, "Do you know all your Bible as well as that?" He could not read, and they have no raised-letter Bibles in Korea. I asked, "Can you tell me what is in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke?" "Certainly," he said, "that's the chapter that has the parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son." "Do you know in what chapter of Matthew is the feeding of the five thousand?" "Certainly," he answered, "It's in the fourteenth." I thought it was the twelfth, but I turned to the fourteenth, and found that the blind man had located it correctly. He had learned all he knew about Christ's life from his friends, who sat on the floor of the little room in which he lived, and read to him, translating out of an old Chinese Bible the whole life of Christ. I asked him what he liked best of all. "O," he replied, "I like the ninth chapter of the Gospel of John, that tells the story of the blind man to whom Christ restored sight." I asked him what he looked forward to most. "Well," he said, "I look forward most to Christ's meeting me at the gates of that Beulah Land. I wouldn't dare go up to see the Father alone, a blind man from Korea, but I shall wait at the gate until Christ comes and takes my hand, and leads me up to His Father and mine." I don't know when I was so rebuked as to my own knowledge of the Bible as by that poor, blind Korean, who had been less than three years a disciple of Christ.—Northwestern Christian Advocate.