There is the story of a traveller at Calais who was going one dark and stormy night to the lighthouse there. Whilst standing, looking on, the keeper of the house boasted of its brilliance and beauty, observing there were few such lights in the world beside.

The traveller said, thoughtlessly it may be, “What if one of these burners should go out tonight?

“What!” exclaimed the keeper, “go out, sir? “Oh, sir,” said he, “look at that dark and stormy sea. You cannot see them, but there are ships passing and repassing there to every point of the compass. Were the light to go out from my inattention, in six months, news would arrive from every part of the coast, that such ships and crews were lost through my neglect! No, no! God forbid that such a thing should ever occur. I feel every night, as I look at my burner, as if all the eyes of all the sailors of the world were looking at my lights, and watching me!”


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