A Group of Christian Scientists was one day watching a large pleasure boat being anchored. The boat, secured with strong cables, was not greatly affected by the winds that blew incessantly, or by the constant movement of the water.
One in the party saw the analogy of the anchored boat to one's thinking. Have we not been aware, many times, of the arguments of mortal mind, apparently coming from every direction, yet unable to sever our hold upon divine Principle?
Perhaps, without such anchorage in Principle, we have found ourselves drifting out to sea, the sea of mortal beliefs of pleasure and ease, distress and trouble, excitement and adventure, stagnation and apathy. But whatever the carnal arguments, whether attractively dressed or garbed in a cloak of darkness and fear, these arguments, if entertained, mesmerize, cheat, and defraud us. In drifting from the true consciousness, accepting as real the illusive temptation of false thinking, we are bound to encounter the reefs and storms of this sea of erroneous thinking, visibly manifested as sin, suffering, want, heartache, and misery
