A voice from the dumb : a memoir of John William Lashford, late a pupil in the Brighton and Sussex Institution for the Deaf and Dumb / By William Sleight, Master of the Institution.

  • Sleight, William.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A voice from the dumb : a memoir of John William Lashford, late a pupil in the Brighton and Sussex Institution for the Deaf and Dumb / By William Sleight, Master of the Institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ In urging the importance of Educating the Deaf and Dumb, as a means of salvation, we do not presume to set limits to the mercy of God; nor do we mean to decide on the final state of those who die without having had it in their power to become ac- quainted with the Scriptures. It is enough for us to know that the ‘Judge of all the earth will do right,’ and that he has told us that ‘That servant which knew his Lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes: but he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.’ We only urge obedience to what appears to be the will of Him who, as if to include every possible case that could occur in this our fallen world, commissioned His apostles, and consequently His people in all after ages, saying, ‘ Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to
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