The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-09-25
And Was Instantly Res
tOred to Health.
WAS SAVED AS IF BY MIRACLE
Wonderful Recovery of a Girl
Who Was Fearfully
Afflicted.
Is CERTAINLY STRANGE CASE

IAN angel from heaven met me
at the gates of death and brought
me back"
So. reverently, says Miss Dorothy
KERN.
"A miracle!" cry some of those
who know of her marvellous restor-
alton to health at the very moment
when it seemed she was about to
succumb to tuberculosis and diabe-
ties. Miss KERN, twenty-five years
old, had been helpless invalid for
six years. Her emergence from ill
ness and pain, suddenly and with
out either physical or psychic as
sistance from any one, or from any
method of healing, has excited the
profoundest interest of the relig-
ious and the scientific.
Not less remarkable than the res
toration of her physical health is
the effect her inexplicable expe-
rience has had on her mind. Now
bUe mas u CldllIN VI view anu III
rene faith in an infinite power and
of belief in spiritual law, but
she has a clarity of view and a prec-
cious and eloquence OF expression
which, usually, are acquired only
by years of diligent study.
Miss KERN, beautiful girl with
10 hoi
trous eyes, lives at 2O4 Wildwood
Road, London. For five years past
and until only recently, she
had not stood upright. For fort
night she had been unconscious and
delirious. That Sunday morning
her physician, DR.. Norman, an emf
nent practitioner, told her sorrow
irg parents that Miss KERN had
only a few hours to live. He was
the last of twenty-seven doctors
who had exhausted their skill in
the effort to prolong her life.
Let her mother tell what hap
pened; that which appears to be
miraculous:
1--WE did not think Dorothy would
live until sunset. AS dusk fell we
gathered around her bed, fearing
she would leave us any minute.
Suddenly she gave great sigh, and
we thought she was gone. But,
with a wonderful smile, which none
of us will ever forget, she stretch
ed out her arms and held them up
a few minutes.
Then she lay still. Presently,
with that wonderful smile, her lips
moving, she drew her hands over
her eyes, then raised her hands.
And then we saw a miracle per-
formed.
"She looked at me, her eyes ex-
banding.
Dolly, do you know me?"
asked.
"'Of course, I do, mamma, she
sad. She sat up and exclaimed, 4
am to get up She seemed under
some mysterious influence. You
can't get up, my darling said a.
But she did get up. The angel told
me to- she said, simply. She was
the calmest person in the room.
zone of our friends who was
there-an honorable man, but who
processes atheism-at the sight of
her, fell on his knees, sobbing and
praying to Almighty God.
Next morning Dorothy, laugh
ing, was running up and down
stairs Mrs. KERN continued. "She
said to a visitor who had come to
condole with us, L was conscious
yesterday for the first time in sew
eral days. 1t seemed to me that l
was slipping out of life. | heard
the whispers and sobs and prayers
of those who love me best. Every
thing grew black. l did not even
think; / just drifted without an eff
fort. without thought, into deep
er blackness.
Suddenly I saw a light-daz-
than any fire | had
ever seen and stretched from out
the great golden flame l saw two
hands. Then l heard a sweet voice
say clearly, Dorothy, your suffer-
ings are over. Arise. You can
walk" Then I heard mother ask
ing me II / knew her. '"-lLondon
cor. New York American.
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