Article July 9, 1949 Issue

Rewards of obedient adventure. Learning to "let the tiller go"

EFFORTS CROWNED WITH SUCCESS

MARGUERITE SCOTT TILL

A Young girl was sailing her boat off the south coast of England when a sudden squall struck the little vessel, causing her to heel over until her sails lay quivering on the water. Too panic-stricken to heed the wise advice of some sailors in a near-by boat, who were shouting, "Let her go!" she went on fighting the tiller until, unable to cope with it any longer, she was forced to let it go. Instantly the boat righted herself and came up to the wind.

Some years later she recalled this long-forgotten incident, and in the light of the teachings of Christian Science she recognized how mistaken was her method in trying to solve a current problem, concerning which she was again clinging to a certain plan of solution. As the incident of the narrowly averted mishap to her sailboat suddenly came back to her, she saw that in this new situation, through fear, she had failed to listen for God's voice, and that she had again been trying to force her affairs in a certain direction. Realizing at once that she must change her tactics, she exclaimed aloud, "Dear God, I'll let the tiller go!"

Immediately a sense of peace stole over her, and greatly comforted, she perceived that in reality Mind directs all our actions and that they are not of our own planning or guiding. Simultaneously with her change of thinking, she received a cable from three thousand miles away requesting her immediate journey to another country. In the twinkling of an eye her problem was solved, for her whole mode of living was changed.

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