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Title: Blind Deaf
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: William Wade
Subjects: Deafblindness
Publisher: Hecker Brothers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the stars and the bright sun. We have better minds than animals; we can read and learn to do many, many things. Our minds are Gods blessings. I know that God loves us dearly, and wants us to obey His laws and keep His com-mandments. He has made many people with eyes. I cannot see, but I know that if I am good and love God, when I die I shall see. I shall enjoy seeing because I am blind so long. We do wrong often, but God is so merciful that He will forgive us all, if we will only ask Him. I often think how wonderful Gods works are — so glorious; yet His heart is so full of love for us all. Those who have eyes know all about the beautiful things which God has made. I cannot see, but God has given me sense of touch. If I had no sense of touch, I could not learn anything. I thank God from the bottom of my heart for all He has done for me. We should pray earnestly to Him and believe in His Son, JesusChrist, our sweet Saviour. I have the Gospels, printed in raised letters, and I can read them my- 38
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self. I love the Twenty-third Psalm and Christs The Sermon on the Mount. I also think these verses Blind-Deafsweet : The ears of the deaf shall be unstopped and the tongue of the dumb shall sing-; Let not your heart be troubled; and the fourteenth chapter of St. John, and also, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for us; and the tenth chapter in John, and also many verses in the ninth chapter of John. All these I know by heart. St. Johns gospel is my favorite. I pray to my Heavenly Father every night. God is merciful to us all and we should be merciful to others. I often do wrong, and I often weep when I think of Jesus who bore all his sufferings so patiently, and Iask to be forgiven at once. I think, at heart, that there is not a person in the world as merciful, loving, true, kind and good as God is. God gives us clothes, food, friends, teachers, homes, schools and Holy Bibles, and we should love him dearly for all His blessings. If we are good, when we die we can go u

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