I DREAMED, and I saw five men—Peter, Andrew, Matthew, John, and Paul—sitting on a hillside, looking out over the Sea of Galilee. It was twenty years after the “Day of Pentecost,” and they had met by appointment to talk over a crisis in the lives and programs of three of their number.

The work was going hard with them. Paul had suffered the loss of all things; Peter had left all to follow Christ and was finding it hard to support his family; and Matthew had just had an attractive proposition at a large income to return to his old place in the custom-house.

Peter, as usual, opened the discussion. He said, “Simon the tanner has inherited the estate of his brother, who was a fisherman and an old friend of mine in Bethsaida, and he has offered to give me a complete fishing outfit, boats, nets, and tackle, with an established trade in Capernaum. It looks like a providential leading, especially as my wife’s mother has opened a boarding house in Capernaum and it will cost us almost nothing to live with her while we are getting started again. I can make a good living and a little more by fishing five days in the week, and I will have all my Sundays for evangelistic work in the cities around the lake. I am getting along in years and am afraid I can’t stand the pace at which I have been working. And, then, too, I need the money.”

Paul said, “Aquila and Priscilla have been greatly prospered in the tent-making business in Ephesus and have offered me a position at a good salary to open a branch in Philippi, and from there to develop and supervise their interests in the principal cities of Macedonia. I can do