'AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME, EVEN SO SEND I YOU. GO YE INTO ALL THE
WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.'

That is the great missionary text. A missionary means, you remember,
'one who is sent.' That text was meant for you and for me, as well as
for the first disciples of Jesus.

After these things, the eleven disciples went away to Galilee, and
waited for Jesus to meet them there.

One day Thomas and Nathanael, and James and John, and two other
disciples, were together by the side of the Sea of Galilee. Peter was
there too, and he always liked to be doing something, so he said to the
others, 'I go a-fishing.' And they said, 'We will also go with you;'
and at once they all jumped into a little ship, and pushed off into the
lake. But that night they caught nothing.

[Illustration: The Sea of Galilee.]

Next morning Jesus came and stood on the shore. The disciples could
see Him, because the little ship was now pretty near to the land, but
they did not know Him. Jesus said to the men in the boat, 'Children,
have you anything to eat?'

They thought, I suppose, that this stranger wanted to buy some fish,
and they said, 'No.' Then Jesus said, 'Cast the net on the right side
of the ship, and you shall find.'

And the disciples did what Jesus had said, and at once the net became