men, for by and by, when crowded to the water's edge, He steps aboard the bark of Peter and makes it His pulpit, and then launching out into the deep He bids them let down their nets for that wondrous draught whereby He showed that He had come there expressly to call them to be His Apostles. No priest of God can read that passage without emotion, for it recalls that bright happy day when first Christ came to him and said: " Follow Me; for henceforth thou shalt be a fisher of men."
Brethren, a wonderful and a mysterious thing is a young man's call to the priesthood. From his earliest years he is unconsciously being prepared, as an altar boy perhaps, and the summons, at first vague and general, may take years to become distinct and unmistakable. Thus Andrew had long been a disciple of the Baptist, and though months previous to their present call, when John had pointed out the Lamb of God to him and his brother Peter, they had immediately followed Jesus, still it is only now that their vocation takes shape definite and final. Doubtless the immediate works of Jesus's hands, the miraculous loaves and fishes, and the wine of Cana were far superior to that produced by secondary causes; and doubtless, too, some special grace was vouchsafed those whom Jesus personally called and consecrated to His service, but still it is the self-same Christ that summons to-day young men to the selfsame Apostolate. His voice is not heard, but just as through fishing He caught the fishermen, and by a star He led the astronomers or Magi, so through
