"CAST THE NET ON THE RIGHT SIDE"

SUSAN F. CAMPBELL

They had so gladly left their nets when Jesus called them only three short years before. At that time the Master had told some of them that he would make them fishers of men, and yet after those wondrous years the little band of fishermen had returned to their old occupation on the Sea of Tiberias. This time, however, their efforts were bringing forth no results, for we read in the Gospel which one of them wrote long years afterwards (John 21:3), "That night they caught nothing."

This time Jesus did not call his disciples as he had called them before. Now he bade them, "Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find." Doubtless they understood the tremendous import of his command, for after drawing up a great draft of fishes, they left their nets that morning by the shining sea and never went back to them. From that hour they gave their lives entirely to fulfilling the mission for which their Master had so vigilantly been preparing them.

The disciples had watched Jesus prove with unswerving certainty the power of God, and now they felt joyously impelled to carry on his mighty work. The Acts of the Apostles graphically recounts many of the struggles and triumphs of the ever-growing valiant band of early Christians and tells how later St. Paul was called of God to aid in the unprecedented work of spreading Christianity. Not once, but scores of times these brave men cast their net on the right side—relied wholly on God—proving themselves worthy of the great name "Christian" which they bore.

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