ou shall find, if you no duty shirk,
Who will may prosper, if he do but work.

And as a last thought, permit me to quote the concluding words of
Clarence Hawkes' wonderful book, "Hitting the Dark Trail": "If night has
overtaken me at noonday, yet have I found beauty in night. The sun at
noontide showed me the world and all its wonder but the night has shown
me the universe, the countless stars and illimitable spaces, the
vastness and the wonder of all life. The perfect day only showed me
man's world, but the night showed me God's Universe."

THE BLIND CHILD AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.

As a foreword to this lecture, I shall quote from a paper entitled
"Blind Children And How To Care For Them," written by Dr. F. Park Lewis,
an eminent oculist of New York City, and a man who has devoted much time
and thought to the blind and their needs.

Dr. Lewis says: "It is the mind and the spirit which control, and when
these are great, they dominate and rise superior to mere physical
deficiencies. The inspiration of great ideals must be held out to the
blind, even more than to the seeing, from the very beginning. It is not
enough that the blind man or woman shall have physical strength, but his
training must be so well balanced as to give him poise as well as vigor.
It does not suffice that the blind man shall be as well educated as his
fellow who sees. Handicapped by the loss of the most important of his
special senses, he must supplement this deficiency by a better training
of his mind and body. It is not enough that he should have the good
character of the average man. His word and his reputation should be
beyond question. He should be independent, and proudly unwilling, except
when absolutely necessary, to accept that for which he can not, in some
way, return an equivalent. He must be taught to reason with clearness
and logical precision, for he must succeed by the aid of his mentality
and character, rather than by his manual exertions. These facts are
emphasized here, because if such qualities are to be secured, the
training which produces them should begin in the cradle." If I could
bring it about, a copy of the foregoing lines should be framed and
placed on the desk of every teacher of blind children, and such teachers
requested to read these words at least once each day.

In considering the development of the blind child, we must recognize the
fact that, in mental attainment, at least, he is the peer of the child
w