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Show SANKEY'S SIGHT NOT GOING. Alarming Rumor About the Great Evangelist Is Denied. Almost everybody has, at some time or ether, sung out of the Moody & Sankey hymn book. And last week it was said that Ira D. Sankey, old and in ill-health, had been strickea blind. Allen Sankey, eldest son of the Evangelist, said in reference to his father's condition: "The report that father is totally blind, or is going to be, is an exaggeration. It is true he has been having trouble with hi3 eyes for some time and has been, operated upon, but he is getting along well arid we trust his sight will be little, if any, impaired. Worry about his eyes and overwork have affected his general health also, but rest will m'1'" "',, I I I&i . JH 49 set that right. The first physician who attendee? him did not understand ' the nature of the trouble and we ' called an oculist, umler whose treat- . ment he now is." r |