aking haste slowly when the
path is steep or uneven, impress upon their minds the importance to
others of their success, and, above all, train them to have confidence
in themselves, teach them to realize that, because of their struggles
and limitations, they have a mental equipment and reserve force
possessed by very few of their more fortunate fellow beings. Thus
trained and fortified, our young blind people will work like Trojans to
prove their ability to those who doubt it, and succeed in removing one
obstacle after another, until they stand ready to take equal chances
with any who may be pitted against them. The hand of the sightless
worker is steadier, and his courage greater, because of the years of
struggle and constant effort of which his sighted competitors can form
no conception.

And so those in charge of the education of the blind, whether in
residential schools or public school classes, have a herculean task
before them, but if their hearts are in the work, if they are alive to
their wonderful opportunity for service, and if they have faith in the
ability of their pupils, the future success of these handicapped young
people is practically assured. As with the nation today, so with those
interested in the welfare of the blind--we look to the children for the
fulfillment of our highest ideals, and hope, in their advancement, to
see our "dearest dreams come true." I am often called visionary, and I
am proud to confess that I have a vision, a wonderful vision of the
future of the blind. It may not be realized during my lifetime, but if
some of the children I have inspired will take up the torch, and carry
it on unfalteringly, I shall be satisfied. Meantime, I walk by the light
of my vision along rough roads, across strange streams, up hills that
are steep and rock-strewn; and, though my courage sometimes fails, and
my strength seems unequal to the task, the light shines clear and
steady, and I go forward, in the glad assurance that one day my vision
will be realized, my cherished dream for the emancipation of my people,
the emancipation of the blind, _must_ "come true."

THE RE-EDUCATION OF THE BLIND ADULT,

With Special Reference to the Blinded Soldier.

"A voice came in the darkness
And lifted the curtain of Mind;
I saw that fingers could be
Also eyes to the blind.
I touched, I thought, I saw,
And the dark shades rolled aside.
And to you my heart pays tribu