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of Life, in healing the sick, in feeding the hungry, 

 in raising the dead, in comforting the bereaved, 

 in spending whole nights in intercessory prayer 

 and whole days in patient teaching, the entire 

 life of Christ upon earth was a pathway of mis 

 sionary example. 



St. Mark s, the earliest record, may be de- The Gospel of 

 scribed as the Gospel of &quot;Straightway,&quot; The w!y ight ~ 

 current of his description, of the early hours of 

 the ministry of his Master, sweeps on with 

 Niagara force. &quot;Jesus came into Galilee preach 

 ing the Gospel of God.&quot; &quot;And passing along by Mark i: 14-35 

 the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew.&quot; 

 &quot;And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me and 

 I will make you to become fishers of men. And 

 straightway they left their nets and followed 

 Him.&quot; &quot;Going a little further He saw James, 

 the son of Zebedee, and John his brother .... and 

 straightway He called them; and they left their 

 father Zebedee and went after Him . &quot; &quot; And they 

 go into Capernaum; and .straightway He entered 

 into the synagogue and taught,&quot; &quot;and straightway 

 there was in their synagogue a man with an un 

 clean spirit .... And the unclean spirit, tearing 

 him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 

 And .... they were all amazed, saying, What is 

 this? a new teaching! And the report of Him 

 went out straightway everywhere. And straight 

 way . . . they went into the house of Simon and 

 Andrew .... and Simon s wife s mother lay sick 

 of a fever, and straightway they tell Him of her; 

 and He came and took her by the hand, and raised 



