An Interesting Incident.
By M. D.
SOME time ago we gave an account of a visit to the asylum in Berkeley, Cal., where the deaf are taught to speak. A teacher of mutes relates the following incident. We copy from the Pacific. We never read anything more touching:— One Friday afternoon while giving out the Sabbath-school lesson for the following Sabbath, the subject, "The New Song," was written upon the slate. An impulsive little fellow, with eyes aglow with excitement, jumped up, and calling to the teacher said (spelling the word slowly), "Songs, what does that mean?" The explanation being given that all whose names were written in the Lamb's book of life, were to sing the new song in heaven, he said, "Yes but who? who?" "All," she replied; "you if you are among the number." "What, me? me? a deaf and dumb boy?" said he. "Yes, you," she replied; "your tongue will be loosed, your ears opened, and you will sing." He was wonderfully impressed, and in the peculiar way of the mute he said, "Oh! is it true? can it be true? t-r-u-e," spelling it slowly and emphatically. "Am I to sing in Heaven? and will I hear singing? Oh how nice." Then, after thinking a moment, he said, "Oh! don't deceive me; don't tell me so if it isn't true." "God forbid that I should deceive you," said the teacher, moved with emotion by the searching, pleading look of the blue eyes. "No, indeed, I am only too glad to tell you that if you love Jesus here, and try to please him, then your name will be written in God's book and you will sing, as surely as there is a Heaven." "I am so glad, for I do want to sing, and hear singing, oh! so much. It must be so sweet, and I mean to try to go to Heaven," said the dear little boy. Should those of us who have all our faculties depreciate them as we do? And is not this a mute appeal to us to use the gifts bestowed upon us to His honor and glory? M. D.