Science explains many things but not everything. The most important truths are beyond its reach. Charles Lindbergh said that science is a path that “disappears in mystery.”

The July 3-9, 2024, issue of The Epoch Times tells about Anna Katherina Ehmer, a German woman born in 1895 who was mentally disabled and died when she was only 26. Known as Kathe (Kathy in German), she never spoke until the last half hour of her life.

Kathe was put in a metal institution when she was 6 and stayed there until her death 20 years later. What happened before she died, The Epoch Times described as “terminal lucidity, a phenomenon that … baffles researchers.”

Kathe, who had never spoken, sang clearly in German the words from a funeral hymn: “Where does the soul find its home, its peace? Peace, peace, heavenly peace!”

The man who ran the mental institution where Kathe was a patient said that she sang for half an hour. He said, “Her face, up to then so stultified, was transfigured and spiritualized. Then, she quietly passed away.”

Being mentally disabled, Kathe would be considered one of the foolish ones, but the Bible says, “God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise…” (I Cor. 1:27).

Robert Kohtala

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