Volume 2

Andre») and His Wife
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giving thanks with abundant tears. It was truly touching.
These people were utterly neglected. Jesus took the
superintendent back to Andrew's to dine with Him. As
they were leaving the hospital, the relatives of some of
the cured presented themselves from Bethsaida bringing
them clothes. They took them joyfully first to their homes
and next to the synagogue, to give thanks to God.
There was a grand dinner prepared at Andrew's consisting
of fine, large fish. They ate in an open hall, the
women at a separate table. Andrew himself served. His
wife was very active and industrious, rarely leaving the
house. She carried on a kind of trade in net weaving,
employing a number of poor girls for the work. The
greatest system and order reigned throughout her establishment.
Among those so employed were some poor,
fallen wonlen, once honorable wives, but afterward repudiated
for misconduct. They had no place of refuge,
and so the good mistress, pitying their distress, gave them
work, instructed them in their duty, and prevailed upon
them to implore the mercy of God.
That evening Jesus taught in the synagogue, and then
reconlmenced His journeying with the disciples. He
passed many sick, but without curing them, for, as He
said, their time had not yet come. After taking leave of
His Mother, He returned with all His disciples to the
house near Capharnaum that Peter had placed at His service.
Jesus conversed there a long time with His disciples,
and then left them to go spend the night in prayer on a
hill, which tapered to a point and was covered with
cypresses.
Capharnaum lay in a half-circle up on a mountain. It
had nunlerous vineyards and terraced gardens. On the
top of the mountain grew wheat, thick and stout as
rushes. It was a large and pleasant place. It had once
been still more extensive, or another city had stood in the
vicinity, for not far off I sawall kinds of ruins like