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.