“Blest Be the Tie that Binds”—See [Christian Unity].
Blind Children in India—See [India, Medical Opportunities in].
BLIND GUIDES
I have read of a blind lamp-lighter. This poor man had mastered the long street in his city, and obtained the position of lamp-lighter. He would go up and down the street, opening the gas key and lighting the flame. Tired men went home from work in the light that he had lit. The blind man found the street dark; he left it a blaze of light for the tired multitudes. And yet, when he had lighted all the lamps, he felt his own way back home. Oh, pathetic scene! telling us how science looks down at the clods, works over iron and ore, matter and force, and stumbles forward in the very moment when the whole world is a blaze of light.—N. D. Hillis.
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Blind, The, and Christ—See [Christ a Guide to the Father].
BLINDNESS
Edward Wilbur Mason in the following verses shows how men miss the best things because they are spiritually blind as to the things nearest to them.
We seek for beauty on the height afar;
But on the earth it glimmers all the while: