Text:—"He that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off", Seeing what is near," as a revised reading translates, 2 Peter, 1,9. are told that one of the penalties of modern scientific progress and its many inventions which discount the need of keen such as wag required by primitive peoples, is the increas-"prevalence of short-sightedness.
I do not want this evening to question the accuracy of the statement, which, by the numbers of people one sees using glasses, would seem too sadly true, but for purpose of illustration to ask you to think for a moment of the loss' defective vision entails.
For not only does the short-sighted man live shut up within narrow horizons and miss many of the.|natural beauties of the wonderful world in which we live, but he is likely to run into dangers and dificulties which one of keener vision would avoid.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.