And steer her with prudence he must. For her cargo is not ours to be reckless with, but is God’s, comprised not only of the truths of his nature, which we have come to know through his work of revelation, and have been charged with bringing, as ‘good news,’ to those who would hear it, but of all those souls who are on board her already, as well as those she might pick up along the way, on islands she happens to pass, or in the ocean itself, swimming, or treading water, or in a state of distress.