CHAPTER III.
CHRIST'S INTEREST IN OUR COMMON LIFE.
"So still, dear Lord, in every place Thou standest by the toiling folk With love and pity in thy face, And givest of thy help and grace To those who meekly bear the yoke." One of our Lord's after-resurrection appearances vividly pictures his loving interest in our common toil.

While waiting for him to come to Galilee, the disciples had gone back for a time to their old work of fishing.

They were poor men, and this was probably necessary in order to provide for their own subsistence.

Thus fishing was the duty that lay nearest.

Yet it must have been dreary work for them after the exalted privileges they had enjoyed so long.