Convinced by Surgery

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 24, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 46.

Convinced by Surgery

The “Quiver” has the following experience of a believing Japanese, which is worthy of note:

“The visible achievements of Christianity have always been a powerful argument on its behalf. The man who is healed is always a witness to the efficacy of the physician. Paul, for instance, wrought miracles in the name of Jesus Christ, and people saw and believed. There are still miracles being performed in Christ’s name, tho so many eyes are blind to them. A Japanese evangelist once said to a group of his countrymen: ‘To-day I attended a surgical clinic, and saw the foreign surgeon preparing to remove the cataract from the eye of an old lady. I wondered thus to myself: Suppose now we Christians are mistaken, and that instead of one God there are many gods, and that the one who made the foreigners did not consult with the one who made the Japanese, and as a result there is a difference in the minute anatomy of the eye, and so this operation proves a failure. But no such thought seemed to disturb the doctor. He cut into the eye in confidence, took out the cataract, and the patient could see. Truly there is but one God, the Creator and Father of us all, and we are brethren.’”