San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-13

NEST Difference to that great humani-
tartan the Light preacher would in
terpose his, blessed are your eyes for
they see not. Verify l say unto you,
many would be thus blessed
But it may also be that this habit
of not seeing the misery and wretch
edness and want and sin of suffering
humanity may be a cursed as well as a
blessed blindness, for such it at once
| becomes when II hardens the heart
makes callous the feeling of the soul,
leads it levitical possessor to pass by
on the other side, when it is in his
power to aid. 1t is only when there
is no power to aid, and this very
powerlessness is breaking into the
soul peace and the mind peace and
the bodily strength of the over SEN
sitive that it is in order to pray for
the scales of this blessed blindness to
fall, covering from sight the earth
sounds and tears and sufferings that
kill the sympathetic souls. The suf-
fering of dumb two footed and four
footed animals, inflicted on them in
the thoughtleSSneSS or the criminality
of the powers that be in the church
and i'm the state and on the street and
in the home, raises a mighty wall on
earth.
There is no plea here for shutting
the eyes to the suffering we can as
suage, nor to the want we may re-
lieve, but it is a declaration of the
need of those who are made sick of
soul and faint of heart by the over
towering appeals of dumb suffering.
to cultivate the habit of that blessed
blindness which draws down the cur
tains before the eyes whenever it is
necessary for self protection. While
it is true that there are not many so
full of the milk of universal kindness
as thus to suffer, there are thousands
of such souls in the earth, particular
ly among the unhardened hearts of
the little ones and those whose hearts
are ever young. These do suffer, as
the more calloused souls cannot con-
ceive, and it would be wisdom for
them to become blind to sights that
only hurt them to the core of being
and avail not to help.
But there is another blessed blind
ness that all may cultivate and covet
even without sin. That is the blind
the faults, the follies, the indiscre-
tons of others, preferring in its high
er wisdom not to see. Blessed are
the eyes of these mobiles of earth, con-
ferring dignity on their age and race.
Blessed are the eyes that see not the
hating steps of their fellows, 10 blaze
their stumbling through the eye of
day. Blessed are they who think no
evil in that, against which their de-
termination not to see availS not.
Blessed are those who will not see
anything evil. where there is a posi-
BILE construction of some better pur-
pose or motive. Blessed are those
who close fast their eyes when the
finger of scorn or derisiOn is pointed
at some unfortunate, and go out with
a prayer in their heart for the friend
less one whom in their diviner chart
ty they will not judge.
Blessed are the eyes that are blind
ed to Sights, that see not in every in
attention a cause for resentment; who
have the scales so wisely before the
eyes of their self-love that they are
not wounded without cause in the
house of their friends. Blessed are
those eyes which, wise in their inno-
cence, see not the vileness of their
surroundings, but unseeing in the
midst of that which offends- purity
and inner cleanness, pass by with the
conscious dignity of self respect and
seeing see not nor give a sign. Veri-
ly such blindness is blessed and it
saves it's possessor from a world of
personal trouble and hides a multitude
of sins. Blessed is that blindness
that sees not on street or hall or pub
lie place the effect Of impudence to
attract attention, but as unseeing as
though blindness were natures gift
passes by and leaves the street cloth
es-horse with his labor for his pains.
Blessed is that man or that woman
who sees no more than is intended IN
look or word or act. Blessed is that
father who is blind to many of the
faults of his wife and children, know
ing that it is not in human nature to
be perfect in it's undress. Blessed Is
that mother who is so judiciously
blind to dirt that her cleanliness does
not distress; so blind to little fault
that every childish foible is not acrlme
so blind to much that disarranges
home plans and comforts that she Is
herself the perpetual blessing or her
family circle. Blessed are the chill
dren in such home, for they also
learn to be blind to the disagreeabale
things in each other, and go out into
the world with blessed blindness to
the faults of others, that is in itself
an antidote for much of earth's con-
tention, covers their own lives with
mantle of charity and extends it to
cover the universal. humanity.