P I L O T E D

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 22, 1912

We set forth upon the stream of life like an oarsman pulling with his back to the course. We can not see into the future. We can not anticipate the dangers of the way. We can not tell where the turns are coming until we get to them. How are we going to reach our goal in safety? We shall be piloted. First, Christ has gone before, and learned the way, and told us of it, just as an experienced river-man goes over the course before a boat-race, and finds the safe, deep channel, and sets his flags to mark the way. In the next place, we are going to get to our goal in safety because we have prayer for one oar and God's service for the other; and these are oars that do not break, or foul, or turn astray. Finally, though we can not see Him with the eye of flesh, we do have a divine Helmsman whose hand is on the rudder, and whose all-discerning eye is on the course. If we pull by faith, He will steer by perfect knowledge. Never yet was trust in God misguided. We may fancy that now and then we scrape a rock; but how safely and surely we come to our goal at last! — Zion's Herald.