Come
Ye After Me And I Will Make You To Become Fishers of Men
Having
circled around the rear of the nave, we now start back toward
the front on the west side. The first such window at the
rear continues the story of Jesus' ministry: the calling
of Simon Peter and his brother Andrew to be the first two
apostles. Peter and Andrew are shown in the boat with their
net in the water (Mark I:1G); there are three fish visible
in the net. Jesus stands on the shore, calling to them.
Behind Him is a pictograph showing the Cross, the Holy Bible,
two more fish and the anchor of hope.
In
diagonal opposition to the cross in the upper left corner
is the cross being planted by Captain Jens Munck (According
to Danish historians the correct spelling of the captain's
name was Munk). Although the lower portion of this window
chronologically predates the previous two, the parallel
between ships and early ministrations is noteworthy.
In
1619 sixty-six men from Denmark, one of whom was the Reverend
Rasmus Jensen, the first Lutheran pastor to serve in North
America, sailed into Hudson Bay in search of a northwest
passage to the Orient, The small expedition, led by Captain
Jens Munck, wintered at what is now Churchill, Manitoba,
and even held a traditional Danish Christmas service on
the barren soil of the new land. The severity of the winter
months, however, was far greater than they had anticipated,
and of the sixty-six who commenced the voyage, only three
survived to tell about it back in Denmark.
