fifty-two states were unfurled in triumph, and the music rang out, and the troops passed in review, and the beauties thronged in their elegant gowns, and the men in formal black?
All that pomp and ostentation was not more powerful upon the soul than the sight of these blind men, enduring the hardships of journeys filled with a thousand causes of distress for those in their condition, and gathering to study their problems — the problems of the alphabet that is read by touch, not by the light of the eyes. There was in the meeting hall something indescribable, inexplicable, at the moment when the rapporteur of the previous conference, Mr. Mackenzie — blind since his youth — rose after the Minister of Education and delivered a clear, brief, moving address, wishing that the conference might end well and that
Lebanon might be the pioneer in unifying the alphabet of the blind.
At the close of the opening ceremony I looked at those present. I saw no elegant ladies, no painted ones... I saw loving sisters — these women who lift from the shoulders of the Lebanese treasury a great share of the burdens of public relief; presidents and members of the associations enlisted in the service
of the Red Cross, the shelters, the hospitals, the children's homes, and the fight against illiteracy. And all of them were thinking that Lebanon — government and people — has fallen short before the problems of the blind. Who is there for the blind in my country, Lebanon??
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