The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-05-13
A Man Born Blind Now Sees.
Walter M. Martin

ilC oQDI " VI tA4- lClAO ing " o.
for many years citizen IN this sec
] ton, his father having homeste AIDED
1lh. Little farm four miles south of
this village. The following taken
from "a Living Word,'' is publish
ed by req st.-Editor
Walter M. Martin was born total
! ly blind in Dayton, Was, in the
year 1888. During his life he was
examined by mnny occulists, who all
agreed that the optic nerve in both
eyes was dead and his c s. incurable.
He could turn his face to the sun at
any time during his life and never
! see particle of light. He went to
Grand Prairie, Texas, February Is,
1914. He was taken to the Pente-
costal Mission for the first time Feb
ruary 18th was saved and baptised
in the Holy Ghost, speaking in
tongues as the spirit gave them utter
ance. Praise the Lord February
18th Rev. S A. Jameson from the
Apostolic Faith Mission at Dallas
went to Grand Prairie, attended the
mission and met brother Martin who
came in with cane and was led to
a chair. Rev. Jameson says: II
saw his eyelids were sunken and
closed, on account of his eyeballs
being greatly shriveled. he was
filled with praises to God for having
saved his soul the Sunday night pre-
vious. I saw him thus blind and
will now let him tell the story five
weeks later of the healing which |
followed !"
Brother Marin February 10, i
1914, | was greatly burdened in
o aver to ask God for som sthing.
did not know what the burden vas
for. But, praiss God, He did He
spoke TO me, ,ying: If we abide in
me, an, my words abide in you, ye
shall ask what we will and it shall
be done unto you | dropped on my
knees before God, and prayed for
many things, Gods work i'll many
places After prayer I found that
my burden was not removed. / did
not yet know what the longing in
my soul meant, but oh, praise God,
He did And then he spoke to me
again in the most gentle tones, say
ing, Son, don't you want to see?'
[ praised God from the depths of my
soul, and said, sYes Lord, if it be
sor Thy Glory On, praise the
Lord! I then f. II under his power
and the room was flooded with light
brighter than the MONDAY sun (Which
never saw uutil the past five
weeks This light of His presence
vas in my spiritual eyes, and was
he witness to my soul that l was
going to see. Praise the Lord l
lrose the next morning praising and
Certifying God, and told the people
What God had done for me, and that
was going to see. Then the Lord
ct me walk by faith the next five
lays, or until the following Tuesday
morning, during all which time /
lever doubted. When | woke up
tuesday morning, February oath,
he thought came to me from God,
Look around I did, and praise
lis holy name l could see the
unlight as it came in the window
md transom over the door.
Although l could as yet see very
poorly, | threw away my cane and
walked two and one half miles to .
own. I came to a stream of water
IN the way to town across which |
we're two poles. l cold see the ,
water in front of me, but could not
ret see we'll enough to trust myself
0 cross on these two poles. The !
Ievil was there, and said, Now, l !
.uess you will not get to meeting. !
You will stop here for you have no