Baptist once said: I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He that cometh after me shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with FIRE.'-Matt. iii. 11.

III.

THE CRIPPLE.

Acts, ii. 41 to end; iii. 1-19.

THE three thousand people who believed lived very happily. They went often to see each other, and they all loved one another, and they prayed together.

Some were very poor and some were very rich. Those who were rich sold their fine houses and gardens, and with the money they helped the poor people. The apostles did a great many

miracles.

Let us hear the account of one of these miracles.

"Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.'-P. 13.

Peter and John went up to the Temple one afternoon, about three o'clock, when the lamb was sacrificed on the altar. As they passed through a fine brass gate called Beautiful, they saw a poor beggar lying there. He was lame.

He had been born with weak bones in his ankles and feet, so that he could never walk. He was now forty years old, and he had no hope of ever being cured. Every day his friends carried him to this gate, that he might beg money of the people, passing through. In the evening his friends carried him home.

When he saw Peter and John coming through, he begged them to give him something. Peter and John stopped, and said to the beggar, 'Fix your eyes on us.' So the man looked, in great hopes of a little money. Then Peter said, 'Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus of Nazareth rise up and

walk.' Then Peter took the beggar by his right hand, and helped him to get up. But the man sprang from the ground with a leap, though before he could not stand; but his feet and ankle-bones had been made strong in a moment.

The man followed Peter and John into the Temple, leaping as he went, and praising God. There were a great many people in the courts of the Temple who had come up to pray, and they saw the man leaping, and they knew him well as the beggar who had sat at the gate year after year.

The man was so fond of Peter and John that he held them fast, lest they should go away. People in the streets heard what had happened, and came in crowds to see the man. They looked at Peter and John, admiring them, and thinking they were very great men to do such a wonder.

But Peter and John did not want