Passed right over them, dropping the lifeline on the wreck, and drawin

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the gallant men of the coastguard, rejoicing in the feeling that they
have done their duty so well and so successfully,

though wet and weary from long
exposure and

exertion, pack the rocket apparatus into its cart, run it back to its
place of shelter, to be there
made ready for the next call to action, and then saunter
home, perchance to tell their wives and little ones the story of
the wreck
and rescue, before lying down to take much-needed and
well-earned repose. Let me say in conclusion that hundreds of lives are
saved in this manner _every_ year. It is well that the reader should
bear in remembrance what I stated at the outset, that the Great War is
unceasing. Year by year it is waged. There is no prolonged period of
rest.
There is no time when we should forget this great work; but there are
times when we should
call it specially to remembrance, and bear it upon our hearts before
Him whom the wind and sea obey. When the wild storms of winter and
spring are howling; when the frost is keen and the gales are laden with
snowdrift; when the nights are dark and long,
and the days are short and grey--then it is that our prayers should
ascend and our hands be opened, for then it is that hundreds of human
beings are in deadly peril on our shores, and then it is that our
gallant lifeboat