Article December 8, 1997 Issue

Safe travel: a Titanic or an ark experience?

Channing Walker

When Lt. Charles H. Lightoller took his post as second officer of the Titanic, he couldn't have known that in a few days he would be standing on the deck of a sinking ship and helping people get into lifeboats. Nor could he have anticipated that he would shortly be struggling to save his own life as the massive ship plunged into the depths.

Though his experience has garnered far less attention over the years than the larger tragedy swirling around it, his message is in some ways more instructive, because it speaks of deliverance under seemingly impossible conditions.

You see, Lightoller, whose testimony from a 1912 copy of The Christian Science Journal is reprinted in this issue of the Sentinel, turned to foundational spiritual truths in his hour of need; and these truths saved him.

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