A Love that Will Not Let Me Go

George Matheson was just entering the bewildering teenage years when doctors informed him he was going blind. Undeterred, he pressed on with his education and graduated from the University of Glasgow at the age of nineteen. By the time he completed seminary, he had completely lost his sight. Soon after, his fiancée broke off their engagement, returning his ring with a note: “I cannot see my way clear to go through life bound by the chains of marriage to a blind man.”

Matheson would never marry. Though he adjusted to a…