text:  Talk of the battering-ram--but what propelled it forward? The shot whizzing in the teeth of adverse winds carries thy _coil_ to snatch the sailor from the rock where he stands helpless and beyond aid from all the powers or productions of man and nature but thine! Thy ladder and thine alone can rescue from the house on fire! Look at the fisheries all over the world--the herrings of Scotland and the cod of the Baltic might defy us but for thee