"WHY PETER WENT A-FISHING." 



BY 



W. C. PRIME. 



NEVER was night more pure, never was sea more 

 winning ; never were the hearts of men moved by 

 deeper emotions than on that night and by that sea 

 when Peter and John, and other of the disciples, were 

 waiting for the Master. 



Peter said, "I go a-fishing." John and Thomas, 

 and James and Nathanael, and the others, said, " We 

 will go with you," and they went. 



Some commentators have supposed and taught that, 

 when Peter said, " I go a-fishing," he announced the 

 intention of returning to the ways in which he had 

 earned his daily bread from childhood ; that his Master 

 was gone, and he thought that nothing remained for 

 him but the old, hard life of toil, and the sad labor of 

 living. 



But this seems scarcely credible, or consistent with 

 the circumstances. The sorrow which had weighed 

 down the disciples when gathered in Jerusalem on that 

 darkest Sabbath day of all the Hebrew story, had given 

 way to joy and exultation in the morning when the 

 empty tomb revealed the hitherto hidden glory of the 



