And if you don’t know those things you’ll sure can’t…You don’t understand Divine healing, well you—there’s no need of trying it, because it’s just a try anyhow. See? If you’re trying it like that… But if you know what’s going to happen, then your faith is centered. Then you’ve got to sick before you get well. Cause that growth’s in you and your bloodstream has to take a…Think of a piece of growth that big on the inside of you, and it…Well, it plain rotten, a lump of meat like that laying in you…Sure, you have fevers and sickness and everything. Some people say, “I lost my healing.” Well, that’s the best sign in the world, you’ve got it. See? And so I was waiting for that shrinkage to come on that cataract so she could see. She had her head down. I said, “Don’t raise your head now. And don’t make any noise.” I said, “If you do, then…” I was watching where my ushers hadn’t got there yet. So I—I said, “Now, as you raise your head, keep your lids over your eyes till you get just about even with what you think was my face. And I’ll tell you when to open your eyes.” She said, “All right.” And I’d give her time, then she raised her head. I said, “You’re just about even now. Now, do you believe?” She said, “Yes, suh.” She said, “Something cool went all through me.” I said, “Now, you—you can see just a moment.” And she said, “Oh, Lawd,” and the tears running down her dark cheeks like that.

Testimony, 1953-09-02, Chicago, IL, §45