One day, a woman suffering from blindness came from Tatebayashi by ferry. As soon as Heikichi saw the woman, he said angrily, "You are hopeless. Away with you! Since you doubt you can be cured, why did you come? Did you not tell the guide that led you here that when you heard that God would cure blindness you didn't believe it and that your eyes would never be cured?"

The woman was very surprised upon hearing this and she threw herself at Heikichi's feet, saying, "I was wrong. Please forgive me." She cried as she pleaded, but Heikichi wouldn't listen to her. Heikichi's father had just come home at that time, so the woman also begged his father. He felt very sorry for her and told Heikichi, "Don't say such things to her. Cure her blindness." But Heikichi said, "No, I can't because God said not to." And then Heikichi left.