The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-04-25
CHAPTER THE THIRD.

THAT there might be some good men to 60 about with
him. teaching the people. Jesus Christ chose Twelve
door men to be companions These Twelve called
The apostles Disciples and ne chose them from among
Poor Men in that the Poor might know always after
that: in all years to come-that Heaven was made for
them as well as the rich and that God makes no dill
between those who good clothes and those
who go barefoot and in rags The most miserable tnt
most ugly deformed wreched that live viii
be bright Angels Heaven they good here on earth
Never forget this when you are grown up never oe
unkind, my dears, to any poor man. woman or cnnd
If they bad think that they would have been better
it they had had kind and good nct . any Sot nav
by persuadng words and always try to teach them
and relieve them if you can And when people SPEAK III
the Poor and Miserable think how Jesus Christ Went
among them and taught Them thought them worthy
of His always pity them yourselves and thinf
well OF them as you can
THE names of the Twelve apostles were, Simon Peter
Andrew James (the of Zebedee John. Philip Bar
thoomew Thomas, Mathew, James the son OF Aphaeus
Labbaens Simon and Judas lscaro This man Afterwards
betrayed Jesus Christ as you will hear bye and bye
The first four of these, poor fishermen who were
sitting their boats by the seaside mendng their nets
when Christ passed by He stopped and went into Simon
Peters boat and asked him he had caught many fish
Peter said No; though they had worked all night with
their nets they had caught nothing. Christ said Let
SO full of fish that required the strength of many men
(who and helped them) to lift it out OF the water
and even then it was very hard to DO inns was another
Jesus then said Come with me-" And they followed
him directly And from that time the twelve disciples
apostles always with him.
As great crowds of people followed him. and wished
to be taught, he went up into Mountain and ;nere
preached to Them and gave them from his lips the
words of that Prayer beginning Our Father which art
in Heaven that you say every night is called The
Lords Prayer because first said by Jesus Christ
and because he commanded his disciples to pray in those
words.
WHEN he was down from the Mountain there came
to him a man with dreadful disease called the
eprosy. 1t in those times, and those who
i'll with it called epers. This Leper fell at Che
feet of Jesus Christ and said, Lordi II thou wilt thou
canst make well Jesus, always full of compassion
stretched out his hand and said II will; Be thou wsll
And his disease went away immediately and he cured
Being followed wherever he went, by great crowds Of
people, Jesus went with his disciples into house to rest
While he sitting inside, some men brought bed
who very i'll of what is called the Palsy that
he trebed all from head to foot and could neither
stand But the crowd being all about the door
and windows and they not being able to get Jesus
Christ these climbed to the roof of the house.
which low one; and through the thing at the top
let down the bed with the sick upon it, into the
Jesus sat. When he him, Jesus, full of pity,
said arise; Take up thy bed and thine home"
And the man rose and went away quite WE'LL blessing
him, and thanking God.
There Centurion too, officer the soldiers,
who to him. and said, "Lord Ny servant lies at
home in my house. very ILL.," Jesus Christ made answer,
II win come and cure him." But the Centurion said