<TITLE>12. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Remember up here at Fort Wayne, old John Rhyn. Not the man with the whiskers, the other blind John Rhyn. I was having a meeting up there in a big tabernacle. I'm fixing to close, go to praying for the sick. This man was setting up in the balcony. He was Catholic. They brought him along the altar, brought him up on the platform by his card.
When he come up where I was at, said, "Your name is John Rhyn."
"That's right."
"And you're a Catholic by faith."
He said, "That's right."
"You used to ride in the circus."
"That's right." Said...?... then, "You've been blind now for twenty something years or better."
Said, "That's right." And some kind of leukemia or something another got into his eyes and run him blind. I said, "You're a beggar."
And he said, "Not exactly a beggar." But said, "I set on the street."
And I said, "Well, that's all right." And I said, "Do you believe that Jesus Christ will make you well?"
He said, "I do."
I prayed for him and laid hands on him. I said, "Lord Jesus, I rebuke this blindness now in the Name of Jesus Christ. Let it leave him." And I turned around and looked, and I seen him go walking away with his sight. I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD" (You watch for that), "THUS SAITH THE LORD, you've received your sight."
Well, he--he said, "I can't see."
I said, "That has nothing to do with it. Go on on your road rejoicing." So he went down.

L-38 There's a woman in a few minutes, had a great goiter hanging on her throat, and while we was praying for her it went away. Here come John Rhyn back, pushing through all the ushers, and coming back again. And so the man was helping me in the prayer line, he started to put him off the platform. He said, "I want to see that preacher." And so they brought him up there again. He said; he said to me; he said, "You told me I was healed."
I said, "You are."
He said, "Well, if I was healed I could see." He said...
I said, "Oh, no, that has nothing to do with it. You told me..."
He said, "Well, you said I was healed."
I said, "You said you believed me."
He said, "I do believe you."
I said, "Then what are you doubting about?"
He said, "Well, if I was healed, couldn't I see?"
I said, "You will see. When God showed me a vision that you were seeing, it has to happen." He was Catholic and he'd never been taught anything like that.
He said, "But I don't understand it. What shall I do?"
I said, "Well, the only thing to do is go on your road just praising God for giving you your eyesight."
He said, "Where are you?" Started pushing on, said, "Wait a minute." Said, "What is your name?
And I said, "Branham."
He said, "Let me feeled you." And I let him put my hands over. He said, "Mr. Branham, as a Catholic I'm taught to believe my priest." And he said, "I've come to you for help. And you told me who I was and all about my conditions, what nobody knows but God. I believe it to be the truth, and I'll keep on saying, "Praise God." Off the platform he went.

L-39 Why I couldn't hardly have the service the next two nights. He'd get up there where I was at, "Praise the Lord for healing me." And I'd start preaching, he'd raise up over hollering, "Praise the Lord for healing me."
They give him a job selling papers. Nearly a month was gone, hollering, "Praise the Lord for healing me." And he was down there, he hollered, "Extra, praise the Lord for healing me." They laughed at him and made fun of him, little newsboys hissed at him.
People on the streets said, "That old man's lost his mind."
And he'd say, "Extra, extra, read all about it: Praise the Lord for healing me. Extra, read all about it: Praise the Lord for healing me."


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