Testimony of Healing January 3, 1925 Issue

A generous volume might readily be filled with my experiences...

William A. Hansen with contributions from Thurid M. Hansen

A generous volume might readily be filled with my experiences and healings in Christian Science.

When I was ten years of age my eyes were examined by an eye specialist in Chicago, who prescribed glasses for me to wear at all times, and who said I should need to wear them all my life. From time to time during the following eight years I was given stronger lenses to satisfy my weakening eyesight. At this point Christian Science interested me. I studied a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which had been idle in our home for many years, and was soon able to do away with the glasses; and I have had no need for them since. In 1917, when the United States entered the war, I applied for admission to the army as an aviator, and stood all the tests satisfactorily, including several extensive tests of eyesight.

While learning to fly I had a most impressive proof of the ever-presence and availability of God. I was flying alone one very cold day when I lost control of the plane and fell into a motor tail-spin; but I did not realize my plight until within four hundred feet of the ground. Fully aware of my meager knowledge of aeronautics, I was immediately ready to apply what I knew of Christian Science. The assurance that God is ever available and never forsakes His own came instantly. At no time, either immediately following the experience or at any time since, have I known what maneuvers were used to right the plane; but I know that God was then, and has been since, ample and present to help me, and that I am here to tell of the experience; for which I am very grateful. One acquainted with aeronautics will realize that I was, very probably, delivered from a fatal smash-up.

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