The deaf and dumb, or, A collection of articles relating to the condition of deaf mutes; their education, and the principal asylums devoted to their instruction / By Edwin John Mann.

  • Mann, Edwin John, 1812-
Date:
1836
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The deaf and dumb, or, A collection of articles relating to the condition of deaf mutes; their education, and the principal asylums devoted to their instruction / By Edwin John Mann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    223/322 (page 217)
    ~*~ THE DUTY AND ADVANTAGES OF AFFORDING INSTRUC: TION TO THE DEAF AND DUMB. [By Rev. fT. H. Gallaudet.] There are some long-negiected heathen; the poor ‘deaf and dumb, whose sad necessities have been for- gotten, while scarce a corner of the world has not been searched to find those who are yet ignorant of Jesus Christ. Have the tears of pity bedewed our cheeks, while perusing the terrific history of Juggernaut, rolling, with infernal pomp, his blood-stained car over the expiring victims of a superstition which surpasses all others in its impure and cruel rites? Do we sympa thize with the missionary who has taken his life in his hand, and has gone to fight the battles of the cross against these powers of darkness? Do we contribute ‘our alms, and offer up our prayers for the success of the enterprise in which he has embarked? Do we greet, with the smile of welcome and the kindest offices of friendship, the savage islanders whom providence has cast upon our shores? Do we provide for their wants, and dispel, by the beams of gospel truth, the thick darkness which has heretofore shrouded their understandings ? Do we make them acquainted with the name of Jesus, and open to them the prospect through his merits, ofa bright and happy immortality ?- 19 “%