e and faith. The Lord also said, "When thou wast young
thou guidedst thyself, and walkest whither thou wouldest; but when thou
shalt be old thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall guide
thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not." Afterward Peter was
crucified as his Lord had been, and then John remembered these words of
the Lord about him. As the Lord said to Peter, "Follow me," Peter saw
John following also, and he said, wondering, perhaps, why the Lord had
no word of counsel, of rebuke, or of prophecy for John,

"Lord, and what shall this man do?" And Jesus replied, "If I will that
he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me." And they
went away from the Lake, following the Lord, as they had done three
years before when He called them to be "fishers of men."

CHAPTER XLVII.

"HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN."

Once more the Lord met His little company of followers and gave the
apostles authority to found the Kingdom of God among men. "All power
has been given to me," He said, "in heaven and on earth."

And this was the work that He gave them to do: "Go ye therefore and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you."

And this was His true word of promise to them: "Lo I am with you
always, even unto the end of the world. And, behold, I send the
promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem
until ye be endued with power from on high."

It was about six weeks after His death that the disciples were again in
Jerusalem where the Lord had told them to go and wait for the coming of
His Spirit. He led them out over the Mount of Olives as far as
Bethany, where the house of Martha had been a place of rest and
refreshment for the homeless Man of Sorrows while He was founding His
Kingdom of Heaven on the earth.

As they ascended a hill just above Bethany, the Lord could see spread
out before Him the Hebron hills toward Bethlehem where He was born: the
great city with its golden Temple where He had taught and had been
rejected; Gethsemane, where He had suffered, and had been betrayed; and
beyond the western walls the place where He had been crucified. Not
far from Golgotha was the garden and the tomb in which He had been
buried, and from which He had risen.

He was about to leave the little group that He had made the founders of
His King