29 And Israel has gone far astray; has not regarded justice, nor the rights of man, and God demands that Israel shall reform, and turn again to ways of holiness. 30 And if our people will not hear the voice of God, lo, nations from afar will come and sack Jerusalem, and tear our temple down, and take our people captive into foreign lands. 31 But this will not forever be; though they be scattered far and wide, and wander here and there among the nations of the earth, like sheep that have no shepherd guide, 32 The time will come when God will bring again the captive hosts; for Israel shall return and dwell in peace. 33 And after many years our temple shall be built again, and one whom God will honor, one in whom the pure in heart delights will come and glorify the house of God, and reign in righteousness. 34 When Jesus had thus said, he stepped aside, and all the people were amazed and said, This surely is the Christ. CHAPTER 20. _After the feast. The homeward journey. The missing Jesus. The search for him. His parents find him in the temple. He goes with them to Nazareth. Symbolic meaning of carpenter’s tools._ The great feast of the pasch was ended and the Nazarenes were journeying toward their homes. 2 And they were in Samaria, and Mary said, Where is my son? No one had seen the boy. 3 And Joseph sought among their kindred who were on their way to Galilee; but they had seen him not. 4 Then Joseph, Mary, and a son of Zebedee, returned and sought through all Jerusalem, but they could find him not. 5 And then they went up to the temple courts and asked the guards, Have you seen Jesus, a fair-haired boy, with deep blue eyes, twelve years of age, about these courts? 6 The guards replied, Yes, he is in the temple now disputing with the doctors of the law. 7 And they went in, and found him as the guards had said. 8 And Mary said, Why Jesus, why do you treat your parents thus? Lo, we have sought two days for you. We feared that some great harm had overtaken you. 9 And Jesus said, Do you not know that I must be about my Father’s work? 10 But he went round and pressed the hand of every doctor of the law and said, I trust that we may meet again. 11 And then he went forth with his parents on their way to Nazareth; and when they reached their home he wrought with Joseph as a carpenter. 12 One day as he was bringing forth the tools for work he said, 13 These tools remind me of the ones we handle in the workshop of the mind where things are made of thought and where we build up character. 14 We use the square to measure all our lines, to straighten out the crooked places of the way, and make the corners of our conduct square. 15 We use the compass to draw circles round our passions and desires to keep them in the bounds of righteousness. 16 We use the ax to cut away the knotty, useless and ungainly parts and make the character symmetrical.