The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-15

(lRASl2K kU22lLllj ton to His disci-
pies after His res
direction. This was presumably three
, or four weeks after the Masters resur-
Tection from the dead. His manifesto
lions to the women on the morning of
His resurrection and His later mani
festation to the two as they went to
, Emmaus are evidently not counted,
! but the manifestation the same even
ing in the upper room, when all the
disciples except Thomas and Judas
were present. is counted the first. And
the manifestation week later, Thorn
as being present, Is counted the sec
cnd.
The delay in giving this third mani
Hesitation was evidently for the pur-
pose of testing the faith of the Apos-
ties and of leading them to reach a
conclusion respecting their future
course, which Jesus wished to correct.
So far as we can understand the rec
ord at least two Sundays passed with
out any further manifestation Of Jesus
to His disciples, and then, giving up
hope, they decided to return to the
fishing business and did SO. The jour
ney to Galilee and the resumption Of
business presumably took another
week.
During all those thirty days the men,
tai attitude of all the Apostles and the
other disciples can be better imagined
than described They were perplexed
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Masters resurrection; they had had
the Scriptures called to their attention
which proved that this was necessary
and that God had previously so ar
ranged. They had hoped for further
conferences with Jesus and that He
would have told them definitely what
to do.
Instead. left to themselves, the dis
ciples were thoroughly disheartened.
They had left all to follow Him. to
tell the people that He was the Son
of God, the long promised Messiah, and
that He would soon set up His King
dom, which would bring blessings, pri-
marily to Israel and, secondarily.
through Israel, to all the families of
the earth in harmony with the Abra-
hamic Covenant, Now apparently all
of these hopes were dashed, frustrat-
ed. How foolish they thought it would
seem for them to try to convince the
people that a man. crucified as a male
factor, as a blasphemer, was indeed
the Messiah! How foolish il would
seem to tell of His resurrection They
felt that they could do nothing else
than abandon the ministry as a lost
cause: and the resumption of the fish
ing business was the logical conclu-
sion.
They Toiled All the Night.
Their first night was discouraging
one-they caught nothing 1t looked
indeed as though God was Furnishing
them for the course they had taken In
becoming disciples of Jesus-that ev-
erything was going wrong. But not so;
they were merely being taught needed
lessons.
In the morning they beheld Il stnn-
ger on the shore who beckoned and
shouted to know if they had any fish
for sale. They replied, No, they had
made no catch. The stranger suggest
ed casting the net on the other side of
the boat. And although the suggestion
seemed foolish one, having been so
unsuccessful, yet they did SO, and i'm
mediately the net was filed with fish
esl 1t did not require long for them TO
learn the lesson. They knew instine-
lively that the unknown stranger upon
the shore was none other than their
Master. They remembered very sim
liar experience at the time they were
first called to leave their nets and to
become fishers Of men.
All interest had just conferred in the
fishing business, but now boats and
fish and nets all lost their value in the
estimation of these fishermen. Here
was their risen Lord for whose third
appearance they had been waiting now
nearly three weeks. Fearing that the
Master would disappear, even before
Re could get to him, st. Peter plunged
into the sen and swan ashore, TO his
surprise the stranger already had fish
and had them cooked. and all We're IN
vited to join in the breakfast on the
shore of Galilee.
The stranger had not the clothing by
which they had known their Lord, nei-
Their did lie have the marks Of the nails
in His hands and reet. that they might
thus identity Him This was d differ
eat manifestation They knew Him
as did those with whom He walked to
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