Word: deafness
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...they seated themselves on straight-backed wooden chairs facing a simple black cross above the plain altar. They did not sing, give hearty responses or even say amen. The only voice was that of elderly (59) Pastor Otto Bartel, who for 29 years has ministered to Berlin's deaf-mutes...
...communicate spiritually with deaf-mutes takes sympathy as well as sign talk. Says Pastor Bartel: "It took me seven years to be able to speak to them fluently and understand them. The fact that they are frequently misunderstood makes them stick to their own kind . . . It takes patience, very much patience, to win the confidence of such people...
...same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
...walked thirty feet to an empty seat. The audience moaned in amazement; a man behind me cried out "Jesus, Jesus" for the next ten minutes. Less serious cases went through the line in a hurry, David mumbled a short prayer and in thirty seconds they had had it. A deaf woman got the full treatment, however--after five minutes of incantation she was able to repeat Mommy and Daddy then promptly broke into hysterics. Little David withdrew silently and the crowd filed out down the stairs...
...long vacation. Besides his chronic catarrh, he was having trouble with his hearing, and his sense of smell wasn't as sharp as it should be. Even cigarettes had begun to taste bad. What was worse, his home in the provincial English town where he lived with his deaf mother was getting on his nerves. After a day at his dull bank clerk's job, his restlessness would become intolerable, driving him out for long, aimless walks. On the rainswept night that the strapping young stranger stopped to ask the way to a nearby town, Langrish felt...