I read of a man in the Kansas City area who had lost both hands in an explosion. Not only so, but his face was torn and his eyesight completely destroyed. He had not been saved long and one of his greatest regrets was that he could no longer read the blessed Word of God.
Someone told him of a woman in the British Isles who had learned to read the raised Braille type with her lips. He ordered portions of the Scriptures in Braille for himself but, upon their arrival, he was chagrined to discover that the explosion had so deadened the nerves in his lips that no sense of touch remained.
Stooping to carefully kiss the Book, somehow his tongue touched the copy and he realized the possibility of reading the raised type in that manner. A teacher was hastily summoned and the young Christian actually learned to read the raised characters by running his tongue along them. When I read the account, that enthusiastic disciple of our Redeemer had gone through the Bible completely four times – and a number of the books he had read over and over again.
No other book every inspired such devotion!
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The Biblical Evangelist, Volume 42, Number 2, March – April 2011
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http://www.biblecharts.org/thebible/theexampleofwilliammcpherson.pdf
William McPherson was severely injured when a charge of dynamite exploded in front of his face. Although he survived the blast, he lost his eyes, hands and the feeling in parts of his face. He realized how much the Bible meant to him and he greatly needed the its strength. He could not read it in Braille because of his artificial hands. He tried to place his lips on the dots but they were numb. He found he could use his tongue to decipher the Moon Type System of dashes. Although the metal left his lips and tongue bleeding and very sore, he prayed to God to help him continue to learn just one letter of the alphabet. In the 65 years that followed, he read the Bible through four times with his tongue. What love for the Bible! His example leaves us without excuse.