There is no greater deprivation than blindness; no sharper anguish than deafness. I know these limitations as you cannot know them, yet I have not known the suffering which this institution is meant to alleviate. My own difficulties are vastly increased because I cannot see or hear. How must they be redoubled when one has seen and heard for many years, and has been engaged in pursuits that require all the faculties, and then suffers this unutterable loss! We must enjoy with the joy of others.