A man at sea was very sea-sick. While he was sick, he heard that a man had fallen overboard. Wanting to do something to help to save him, he laid hold of a light, and held it up on the port-hole. The drowning man was saved.

After his sea-sickness had passed, he was up on deck one day, and was talking to the man who was rescued. The saved man gave this testimony. He said he had gone down the second time, and was just going down again for the last time, when he put out his hand. Just then, he said, someone held a light at the port-hole, and the light fell on his hand. A man caught him by the hand and pulled him into the lifeboat.

It seemed a small thing to do to hold up the light, yet it saved a man's life. Even if you feel you cannot do some great thing, still, you can shine your light for some poor, perishing sinner, who may be won to Christ and delivered from destruction.