双语故事 返老还童

　　At the time when our Lord still walked on earth, he and Saint Peter stopped one evening at a smith's and were gladly given lodging. Now it happened that a poor beggar, hard pressed by age and infirmity, came to this house and begged alms of the smith.

　　Peter had compassion and said, "Lord and master, if it please you, cure his ailments, that he may earn his own bread."

　　The Lord said gently, "Smith, lend me your forge and put some coals on for me, and then I will make this sick old man young again."

　　The smith was quite willing. Saint Peter pumped the bellows, and when the coal fire sparkled up large and high, our Lord took the little old man, pushed him into the forge in the middle of the red fire, so that he glowed like a rosebush, and praised God with a loud voice.