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The Plastic Eye Miracle
This story begins in August 1950 at the Coyne family home in Sapulpa, Oklahoma (20 miles from Tulsa). One day during this month, while Mrs. Coyne was taking a nap she was aroused by a cry from her seven year old son, Ronald, who was down the street a short distance. His brother, Donald, came in and said Ronald had stuck a wire into his eye. At first she thought little about it, but Ronald continued to cry and late in the afternoon she noticed a white spot on the eyeball. Immediately the parents took the boy to a doctor and later to one of the best eye specialists in Tulsa. The specialist realized the seriousness of the accident and rushed the boy to St. John’s Hospital.
A few days later Mrs. Coyne was notified that the eye could not be saved and would have to come out. She refused the doctor’s request to operate but agreed to come to the hospital. Arriving there, she looked into the eye, while Ronald was asleep, and saw that it was white and cloudy. Then she realized that the sight was gone. Surgery was then performed in an attempt to save the eye but it was discovered during the operation that an abscess had formed and there was no way to drain it. The mother was informed that Ronald might lose the other eye, or he might even lose his life, if the infected eyeball was not removed.
During these hours the mother desperately held onto God, hoping that the eye might not be lost. She would not give her consent to the removal of the eyeball but finally Mr. Coyne gave his permission for the operation to proceed.
A plastic eye was fitted to take the place of the eye that was removed. Four days afterwards Ronald came home. For ten months sight was totally gone in his right eye. Shortly after this time Ronald began to get anxious about his soul and gave his life to the Lord during a Vacation Bible School. Soon after this the family began attending a revival in Sapulpa sponsored by the First Assembly of God Church where Rev. Lonnie Osborn was pastor. Ronald had an infection in his tonsils and went up for prayer so the lady evangelist, Sister Daisy Gillock, prayed for him then noticed something was wrong with his right eye. When Ronald said he believed he could be healed, she prayed that he could see. God heard that prayer of faith! Ronald began to see with his right eye! All were astonished and his family and others tested and came to the absolute conclusion that Ronald was seeing.
The news spread. The local newspaper wrote an article on the 20th Century Miracle. Reporters came from the Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune and these papers carried the story. Then invitations began to come in from many different places to have Ronald share this wonderful Miracle with others. For many years this Miracle was used to bring faith to Christian friends, and bring lost souls to Jesus Christ as Ronald Coyne carried the Miracle around the world as a testimony of God’s power to all people of all faiths. | 
