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and hastened to her assistance. As efforts to help her to her feet proved
unavailing, Miss Walling raised her into a chair, drew the chair through
the hallway into the bedroom, and finally got her onto the bed, and
summoned a physician from the St. Helena Sanitarium.
A preliminary examination by Dr. G. E. Klingerman was followed
by a more thorough examination by means of the X-ray, and this
revealed unmistakably an intracapsular fracture of the left femur. It
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was of course impossible to determine when the break in the bone had
taken place,—whether before the fall, thus causing Mrs. White to drop
to the floor, or as the result of the fall.
The restlessness of the next few days and nights was accompanied
with very little pain. In fact, from the very first, the Lord mercifully
spared His aged servant the severe pain that ordinarily comes with
such injuries. The usual symptoms of shock, also, were absent. The
respiration, the temperature, and the circulation were nearly normal.
Dr. Klingerman, and Dr. B. F. Jones, his associate, did all that
medical science could suggest to make their patient comfortable; but
at her advanced age they could hold out but little prospect of ultimate
recovery.
All through the weeks and months of her last sickness, Mrs. White
was buoyed up by the same faith and hope and trust that had char-
acterized her life experience in the days of her vigor. Her personal
testimony was uniformly cheerful and her courage strong. She felt that
her times were in the hand of God, and that His presence was with her
continually. Not long after she was rendered helpless by the accident,
she testified of her Saviour, “Jesus is my blessed Redeemer, and I love
Him with my whole being.” And again: “I see light in His light. I
have joy in His joy, and peace in His peace. I see mercy in His mercy,
and love in His love.” To Miss Sara McEnterfer, for many years her
secretary, she said, “If only I can see my Saviour face to face, I shall
be fully satisfied.”
In an interview with another she said: “My courage is grounded in
my Saviour. My work is nearly ended. Looking over the past, I do not
feel the least mite of despondency or discouragement. I feel so grateful
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that the Lord has withheld me from despair and discouragement, and
that I can still hold the banner. I know Him whom I love, and in whom
my soul trusteth.”