Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-06-24 | Page 3 | Episcopals to Provide Ritual for Blind

EPISCOPALS TO PROVIDE RITUAL FORBLIIID " Appropriation of $4000 by National Council for Work Tha blind ara to ba provided wit eoptaa or th full Communion aar- vie of the ISplacopal church under ' raaolutlon which haa btra adopted by tho national council of tha church ap- 1 proprlatlnt ,4000 for tha Immediate publication or this aervlca in Brailla acrlpt, which will ba distributed to alshtleaa applicants through tho com-, com-, mtttea on lltoraturs ror tho blind of ; tha department or mlaalena. according , to advlcs received br members of tho faith In thla elLv from hMilnuHM n tha national council, Sll fourth avenue. ave-nue. Mew York Cltf. lira. W. J, Loarlng Clark, a msmber of this commit tea of which Ray. Dr. Rrnest M. Btlres of St Thomas church. Is tho chairman. In commenting en ths action, said: "Thla la a field of religious effort which haa been somewhat neglected In ths peat by our church. Bo mo tlms ago on hundred cop lea of tho Communion Com-munion service were printed In Braille, and at tho request of blahops and clergy to Individuals as well as to libraries having departments of lit eraturo for tha blind. Tho demand for this aervlca n Braille, however, far exceeds tho supply, and It Is In response to many requsats for additional addi-tional coplea that ths national council of tho rhurch haa made thla appropriation appropri-ation to our committee. When no thinks of tha consolation which la afforded af-forded tho blind by tho opportunity which Is riven them to follow tho Communion aervlcevth rough tha Braille system. It Is strange that ths churches have not before thla made adequate I provision for the demand. TV.lh tho appropriation which has now been made wo shall bo able almost to double dou-ble tho number of coplea of tho service ser-vice which wg have In Braille, and for this generous action of tho Episcopal Episco-pal church I am aura there will bo heartfelt gratitude from hundreds, of sightless onea." The uao of these Braille copies of tho service is not restricted to mem- bers of the Episcopal church, tho committee com-mittee having made provision as far aa the limited aupply with permit, to put thorn st tho aervlca of all who request re-quest them. At ths earns time a committee com-mittee representing all of tho Protestant Protest-ant denomlnatlona In New York Is actively ac-tively at work on plans to provide In Braille services which will fully moot tho dsmand of all the blind communicants communi-cants of their denomination.