The inventor of the numeral-type for China : by the use of which illiterate Chinese both blind and sighted can very quickly be taught to read and write fluently / by C.F. Gordon-Cumming.

  • Gordon Cumming, C. F. (Constance Frederica), 1837-1924.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The inventor of the numeral-type for China : by the use of which illiterate Chinese both blind and sighted can very quickly be taught to read and write fluently / by C.F. Gordon-Cumming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DR. E. H. EDWARDS' TESTIMONY MS to his work, but it is so useful as it is, that we, who KNOW ITS VALUE, DO NOT LIKE TO CRITICIZE. Again, he writes,— What has Murray’s System done for the Blind of China ? Some thirteen years ago a party of six blind men came to the door of the Medical Mission Hospital in Tai-Ytien-Fu in the Province of Shansi. They were much travel-stained, and on inquiry it was found that though they had engaged as guide a man who had two good eyes, they had taken thirteen days to accomplish the journey from their home in the adjoining province, to the hospital. And what had induced these men to undertake a journey which meant their crossing mountains 4000 feet high ? A patient who had been cured of cataract in the hospital, returned to his home and there gave such a wonderful account of his own cure, that his blind friends were induced to scrape together all the money they could, engage a guide, md undertake the long journey in the hopes that they too might regain their sight. Unfortunately all six cases were hopelessly blind, and only those who have had to tell others that for them there is “ no hope ” can understand the disappointment it was to these poor men. At that time we knew nothing of Mr. Murray’s system, otherwise we might have held out some cheer for them, As it was, there was nothing for them but to retrace their steps over the mountain heights. 1 wo of them, however, decided to remain, as we said that it they were willing to submit to prolonged treatment, we would try a new remedy which had been suggested for their particular malady. At the end of six months their sight had not improved, but “ the eyes of their understanding ” had been opened, and before they went home they received baptism, confessing Christ as their Saviour. L