I am glad to tell of a wonderful experience, a proof of God's protection, on a journey from Sweden to England by air. We started from Malmo in the morning, three Christian Scientists together, in an aeroplane for ten persons, via Hamburg and Amsterdam to Croydon near London, and the journey was expected to take eleven hours. Early in the morning I awoke with a sense of peace, feeling so uplifted, and some words from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (pp.493,494) which many times had helped me, stood clearly in my thought: "Who dares to doubt this consummate test of the power and willingness of divine Mind to hold man forever intact in his perfect state, and to govern man's entire action?" I knew that the words were given to me by God to help us on the journey; and such a sense of security fillec me, and absolute trust in God's willingness to protect us and in His power to do so.
In Amsterdam we changed to another aeroplane, which went very steadily to begin with; but halfway over the English Channel a strong sense of fear and of danger suddenly took hold of me, a sense that something was wrong and that an accident was threatening. Just for a moment I was seized with fear, but the next minute I declared aloud: "Nothing of an evil nature can happen, because God is present and His love and power are sufficient to help us all;" and the same sense of security and trust that had filled me in the morning and through the whole day came back. Were not God's power and willingness to help present; and could I dare to doubt? For a few seconds all the proofs I had had of God's love and help seemed to stand out clearly before me, and I felt that nothing could shake my trust. Peace and gratitude and joy filled me at that moment of spiritual consciousness, and as an angel visitant the words from one of our hymns came, which I kept on singing to myself:
"Everlasting arms of Love
Are beneath, around, above."
