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76 DARKNESS AND DAWN
Sitting quietly there, she told him, that day, of the Jews as
the people who had kept alive for centuries the knowledge of
the one true God ;
of their age-long hopes of a Deliverer ;
of
their prophecies and of the coming of the Baptist. On his
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next visit she told him of Jesus, and read to him parts of one
of the old sketches of His ministry which were current, in the
form of notes and fragments, among Christians who had heard
the preaching of Peter or other Apostles. Lastly, she told
him some of His miracles, and the story of His death and
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resurrection. He spake,' she said, as never man spake.
He did what man never did. Above all, He rose from the
dead the third day. Even the centurion who watched the
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crucifixion returned to Jerusalem and said, Truly this was
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a Son of God !
Britannicus felt almost stunned by the rush of new emotions.
His mind, like that of most boys of his age at Rome,
was almost a blank as regards any belief in the old mythology.
In Stoicism he had found some half-truths which attracted
his Roman nature ;
but its doctrines were stern, and proud,
and harshly repressive of feelings which he felt to be natural
and not ignoble. Here, at last, in Christianity, he hear