It was a pleasant sight, for those who had eyes, to see how patiently the blinded little boy now submitted to what he had at first deemed an intolerable calamity.

The beneficent Creator has not allowed our comfort to depend on the enjoyment of any single sense.

Though he has made the world so very beautiful, yet it is possible to be happy without ever be holding the blue sky, or the green and flowery earth, or the kind faces of those whom we love.

Thus it appears that all the external beauty of the universe is a free gift from God over and above what is necessary to our comfort.

How grateful, then, should we be to that divine Benevolence, which showers even superfluous bounties upon us! One truth, therefore, which Edward's blindness had taught him was, that his mind and soul could dispense with the assistance of his eyes.
Doubtless, however, he would have found this lesson far more difficult to learn had it not been for the affection of those around him.