It would be great to make them come true. To help everybody
to feel what he felt there on the hilltop--that big, free feeling
of peace and confidence and not being afraid! To make those robbers
in the Jordan valley see how they were breaking the rule of the
world and burning out their own hearts! To cleanse the Temple from
the things that filled it with confusion and pain, and drive away
the brawling buyers and sellers who were spoiling his Father's great
house! To go among those poor and wretched and sorrowful folks who
swarmed in Jerusalem and teach them that God was their Father too,
and that they must not sin and quarrel any more! To find a better
way than the priests' and the Pharisees' of making people good! To
do great things for Israel--like Moses, like Joshua, like David--or
like Daniel, perhaps, who prayed and was not afraid of the lions
--or like Elijah and Elisha, who went about speaking to the people
and healing them--
The soft tread of bare feet among the bushes behind him roused the
Boy. He sprang up and saw a man with a stern face and long hair and
beard looking at him mysteriously.
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