Go in
peace. God knows what will become of me."
"God knows, sister," replied the Boy gravely. "Abide in peace."
So he went out into the dusk with the Nubian and found the camp on
the hillside and a shelter in one of the friendly tents, where he
slept soundly and woke refreshed in the morning.
This day he would not spend in playing and wandering. He would go
straight to the Temple, to find some of the learned teachers who
gave instruction there, and learn from them the wisdom that he
needed in order to do his work for his Father.
As he went he thought about the things that had befallen him
yesterday. Why had the man dressed in white despised him? Why had
the city children mocked him and chased him away with stones? Why
was the strange woman who had been so kind to him afterward so
unhappy and so hopeless?
There must be something in the world that he did not understand,
something evil and hateful and miserable that he had never felt in
himself. But he felt it in the others, and it made him so sorry, so
distressed for them, that it seemed like a heavy weight, a burden
on his own heart.
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