a
tallow candle.

A little light will sometimes do a great deal. The city of Chicago was
set on fire by a cow kicking over a lamp, and a hundred thousand
people were burnt out of house and home. Do not let Satan get the
advantage of you, and make you think that because you cannot do any
great thing you cannot do anything at all.

Then we must remember that we are to _let_ our light shine. It does
not say, "_Make_ your light shine." You do not have to _make_ light to
shine; all you have to do is to _let_ it shine.

I remember hearing of a man at sea who was very seasick. If there is a
time when a man feels that he cannot do any work for the Lord it is
then--in my opinion. While this man was sick, he heard that someone
had fallen overboard. He was wondering if he could do anything to help
to save the man. He laid hold of a light, and held it up to the
port-hole. The drowning man was saved. When this man got over his
attack of sickness, he went on deck one day and was talking with 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 it. A sailor 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 the
man's life. If you cannot do some great thing you can hold the light
for some poor, perishing drunkard, who may be won to Christ and
delivered from destruction. Let us take the torch of salvation and go
into the dark homes, and hold up Christ to the people as the Savior of
the world. If the perishing masses are to be reached, we must lay our
lives right alongside theirs, and pray with them and labor for them. I
would not give much for a man's Christianity if he is saved himself
and is not willing to try and save others. It seems to me the basest
ingratitude if we do not reach out the hand to others who are down in
the same pit from which we were delivered. Who is able to reach and
help drinking men like those who have themselves been slaves to the
intoxicating cup? Will you not go out this very day and seek to rescue
these men? If we were all to do what we can, we should soon empty the
drinking saloons.

I remember reading of a blind man who was found sitting at the corner
of a street in a great city with a lantern beside him. Someone went up
to hi