WISDOM OF THE CHILD JESUS.

Here is a little boy standing among some very wise-
looking men, and they all seem deeply interested: in him.
I wonder who this can be, attracting so much attention.
‘This is the child Jesus. He is now twelve years of age.

We do-not hear very much said about him, after he
was saved from the bloody persecutions of Herod, until -
we find him in the temple disputing with the doctors of
the law. The home of Jesus was in Nazareth, but his
father and mother took him with them up to the great
city of Jerusalem, where they went to worship.

As they returned home the little boy stayed behind,
and his parents did not know it, for there was a large
crowd of people on the road,and they thought he must
-be with some of their kinsfolk or acquaintance. After
they had journeyed a whole day they began to look for
their boy, but could find nothing of him in the company ;
and they were greatly troubled.

Then they went back to the city, and looked through
the streets and in the houses for three long days. And
where do you think they found him? It was in the tem-
ple, as our picture repieecoe him, disputing with the doc
tors of the law.