NEVER KNEW HIM | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 27, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 52.

NEVER KNEW HIM.

A touching story is told of the child of a well-known French painter. The little girl lost her sight in infancy, and her blindness was supposed to be incurable. A famous oculist in Paris, however, performed an operation on her eyes and restored her sight.

Her mother had long been dead, and her father had been her only friend and companion. When she was told that her blindness could be cured her one thought was that she could see him; and when the cure was complete, and the bandages were removed, she ran to him and tremblingly pored over his features, shutting her eyes now and then and passing her fingers over his face as if to make sure that it was he.

The father had a noble head and presence, and his every look and motion was watched by his daughter with keenest delight. For the first time his constant tenderness and care seemed real to her. If he caressed her or even looked upon her kindly, it brought tears to her eyes.

"To think," she cried, holding his hand close in hers, "that I have had this father so many years and never knew him!"

How many of us are like the little blind girl! The heavenly Father is so near in Jesus Christ, but our "eyes are holden."—Selected.