ENTIRE DARKNESS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 2

ENTIRE DARKNESS.

! : •• : ;- : • ;^RB^antle;'!3t;dy' s. .;> I AA cnarats'tenstle ni^ss'age ;6'f -'p^tiniism, inA spite 0;f. a. tragic np^, 'a^p'eai'S 'froYff General. '.Booth;' m ;theA 2 curr,ent / i'ißsueT of the "War Gry." on the subject' of "life threatened bhridness;.il;* > Vj. A. A ./ I ■'•'".'lf unexpectedly, the blow has not actually , fajlen ( u P<?n „me.'' f he ,says "it ,is hovering! Apainfvuly\'and , dahgbrpusl^ j near!' Instead oT 'tn^e'restdration'of my sight, on which I had so; long .ardehtijj; j counted, 'tire dbct6rs r tell'> me 1 tKKt' Kam [on the' verjr cve M 6f ' ehtire'Ada.rkness; In a few hours my cbmf ades' may be u'ftdet the painful compulsion . of ; annonncing that their General is hopelessly blind. In that event, what a loss— : what ah indescribably painfulloss-TT-nTll b t e mine. Never again to behold 'the countenance of my friends. y^BveTA'-agahv-'to look j into the sympathetic, eyes of my cb^rades. Never again ' to (< r witness that which for A6O years j gone by has 'been ( to me the sight of sights— -ni&n and I women kneeling at ' the mercy seat?' '■ I The Veteran 'he has lost hope of being able to. write al ine with I any facility, whil^it^ill be"a bsolutely ! impossible: to "i'e'a'd d book, '•e'venv^' page of the'. .'Bbok .of .books, ' .'the Wor d ' pf God." Yet he proceeds to enumerate* all the ' mercies' , that ) are . left to hitn-r-his confide*nce m God^\ the.t.coliifidence and love of his own dear people, and the inestimable^JbJteSßing-ji of^ li(a f „.,.,:.. . .'^ v