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The Good Shepherd - A Life of Christ for Children by Anonymous
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so heavy with fish that the fishermen could not pull it into the boat.

Then John said to Peter, 'It is the Lord.'

When Peter heard that, he jumped into the water, so as to get quicker
to land. The other disciples stayed in the boat, and dragged the fish
along after them. When the boat got to land, Peter helped the other
men to pull the net in. It was full of great fishes--a hundred and
fifty and three. Jesus had got a fire of coals ready on the beach, and
some bread; and some fish were broiling on the fire. And now Jesus
said to the tired fishermen, 'Come and dine,' and He waited upon them
Himself.

After that day by the Sea of Galilee, the disciples went to a mountain
which Jesus told them about. And Jesus met them there, and said to
them, 'Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. AND LO I AM WITH YOU
ALWAY, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.' There is another splendid
missionary text.

[Illustration: The Mount of Olives.]

Jesus stayed on earth for forty days, and when the forty days were
over, He went for a last walk with His disciples. He took them the way
they had so often gone together--over the Mount of Olives, and so far
as Bethany. There He stopped, and lifted up His hands, and blessed
them. And it came to pass, that while He blessed them, He was taken
from them, and carried up into heaven, and sat down on the right hand
of God. As the disciples looked up earnestly towards heaven after
Jesus, two angels in white robes came and stood by them, and said, 'YE
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