118 ' WISDOM OF THE CHILD ¥ESUS.

This seemed a very strange thing for Jesus to do, to
cause his parents all this trouble and anxiety. But we
must remember that he came into this world ona great
mission.

His mother, I presume, did not feel like saying much,
for she remembered what the angels had said about this
wonderful child at his birth, and also how the wise men
worshiped him, and poured their treasures at his feet.

When they began to question him about his conduct,
he replied that he must be about his father’s business.
Jesus was talking with the doctors about the kingdom of
God, his Father had sent him to establish in the earth.
The wise doctors were greatly surprised, as they heard his
wonderful words of wisdom, and thought hima very
strange child. It was because that Jesus was the Son of
God that he was so filled with wisdom.

The little boy Samuel, you know, was very wise,
because God made him so; and he became the teacher
of Eli, the high priest | God can make each little child to
know a great deal, if he will only learn of him.

When Jesus had finished his lesson to these doctors,
he went home with his parents, and we read that wise as
he was, he was subject to them, for he came to keep the:
law of God, and the law says: “Thou shalt henor thy
father and thy mother.”