p. 13 | A REMARKABLE INCIDENT

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 34.

A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.

The following incident was related to me by Mrs. D. Bradley, of Lucknow, India. The circumstances transpired in that city:—

A missionary lady was laboring among certain secluded Mohammedan ladies. She was seeking to impress upon their minds that Christ had more power than Mohammed. To do this, she read and commented upon the man who was born blind, whom the Saviour healed and forgave his sins, and who was thus led to worship the Saviour. See John 9. She had no thought of conveying to her hearers the idea that the Saviour would restore the blind now, but that He was able to do this, and consequently He alone could forgive sins, and that any other support would prove a broken reed.

Present at the interview was a lady who had lost her sight. She could only discern light from darkness, and had been told by eminent physicians that there was no hope for her, only by a very painful operation, and then it was ten chances to one if she would not lose her sight altogether. Her desire for sight was so great that her heart was wrung with anguish at the thought that she would probably never again have her sight. The missionary woman took great interest in the case, and manifested much heart sympathy. The next time the missionary returned, she met her with a happy face, having the assurance of her Saviour’s love—her countenance beaming with joy, and her sight had been restored. The following is the substance of the Mohammedan lady’s own story:—

“After you left the other day, I thought I would go to your Jesus and see what He could do for me. I purified a place and made ready, and at the regular season of prayer (Mohammedans pray seven times a day) I told Jesus that the missionary woman had been here, and she had said that He could forgive sins and restore the blind. I told Him that the missionary woman said He was in heaven, but that He looked down and saw us and pitied us, and heard us pray just the same as tho He was upon earth. I then told Him that, as He was not here personally, I would make the clay and put it on my eyes, then I would go and wash and trust that He would heal my eyes. I went and washed and came seeing—my eyes were perfectly restored. Now,” said the poor woman, whose heart was swelling with gratitude and praise to Him who had not only healed her eyes, but had forgiven her sins, “I shall hereafter believe in your Jesus.”

Are there any who would question the power of God in the conversion of this soul to Jesus Christ? Hundreds of young ladies are wanted to enter these secluded homes in India to-day, protected by the English Government, and administer consolation not only to such individuals, but to hundreds of thousands of Hindu widows whose lives are made bitter by servitude and oppression, growing out of the cruel custom of caste. Are there not here open doors? Who is there that reads these lines that will give himself to God for the perishing souls in India? —Divine Life.