The Meaning of the Mark by RHJ

Author:RHJ
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2013-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

John Weitzel was a day laborer. His wife, Helen, did odd jobs to increase the family income. They promised themselves that Anna, their three-year-old daughter, would have an education and advantages denied them. Then a second daughter, Mary, was born. The doctor said she was blind.

Helen Weitzel, strong in her Catholic faith, took her problem to God. She did not question the cause of this tragedy. She only wanted relief from it—the child’s eyesight restored. Her only hope sprang from simple faith in a healing shrine. She knew that thousands were healed each year at Ste. Anne de Beaupré; so she decided to take the baby there.

John was not in favor of her spending their money to do so. He reasoned if the doctors could not help Mary, there was no hope; but Helen, braving the harshness of her husband, with undaunted courage, took the family savings for the trip. At Ste. Anne, she went up the steps on her knees, a prayer on every step; but no miracle happened!

Home she came, still strong in her faith. She had seen others healed and reasoned that her prayers were not correctly said. Perhaps, because of John’s attitude, they were not. Immediately she went to work as a scrub woman, at night, to earn the money for another trip. Two years later, she made a second pilgrimage. Again she went up the steps, again she prayed and, again nothing happened.

Home again. She once more began to work and save for the third journey. Two years passed, years of toil and undaunted faith. When Mary was five years old, this courageous mother again took her child to the healing shrine. Half way up the long flight of steps the miracle happened. The eyes of the child were opened! Helen’s great faith had won.

No one can tell Helen Weitzel that God did not do this and she is right. She worked His law correctly. There was no interference from John the third time. Her overtowering faith had surmounted every obstacle.

The doctors might claim that some dirt or grit in the child’s eyes had cut the film which covered the pupils. Could Helen believe this? Would she say it “just happened”?

Mary is now 24 years old and a private secretary with a beautiful pair of strong blue eyes. She wears no glasses. Anne, her sister, a brilliant business woman, told me this story. It is repeated to you to illustrate the effect of soul power.

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