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It is not for me here to compare the rival systems of education;—to plead as I would gladly do, for voice and language, as against silentness and signs, and isolation in the outer world. Thank God and good workers for all teaching, and speed the best. Help is urgently needed. Because, in Great Britain, scarcely more than half the "Deaf" and "Deaf and Dumb" are educated at all!
You, then, who are happy, healthy, prosperous, in whatever degree, you who hear earth's music and its pleasant voices, let your Willingness go forth, in this cause, to meet the Will of God.
If He has spared you these or such like trials, make that immunity the spur to prick the sides of your intent, and thank Him, not wordily I Do something; your best; after the example of that Great One, who made the Deaf to hear and the Dumb to speak,—took the little ones in His arms and blessed them,—and caused the mother's heart to sing for joy,
H. G. W.
