The Eighth-of-an-Inch Miracle
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesA distraught father, some years ago in another state, asked if I would meet with his daughter concerning modern-day-miracles. I had known this family for years, and when working in a Jr. College “Bible Chair” arrangement, had her as a student in some classes. She had obeyed the gospel in her youth, and was most active in the kingdom through so many following years.
Sadly, her entry in to the Pentecostal-Holiness ranks came through some mission work she undertook, with some of our brethren, down in South America. Some of those leaders, and then some of the students, were weak enough that they became influenced by these false teachers. Upon returning home, it was just a short time until she had left the church and fully embraced Pentecostalism.
One of the chief factors holding her was a “miracle” she had seen performed. Completely ignoring what the Bible says about such, and such ceasing, she was convinced she had seen one – a person with one leg shorter than the other having the leg lengthened to match its companion. We finally managed to get the information that the leg was lengthened on stage, and she herself was 8 or 10 rows out in the audience. Inquiring as to whether they announced just how long an extension the leg obtained, she said they announced it as “an eighth-of-an-inch.” Ah, an even greater miracle than that eighth-of-an-inch would be the eyesight allowing one from ten rows back to see it taking place! How gullible men are!
THE SOUTHWESTERNER, October 24, 1990