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IV. Lastly, we have Christ applying the greatest principle to the smallest duty. 'Zaccheus! make haste and come down; to-day I must abide in thy house. Why must He? Because Zaccheus was to be saved, and was worth saving. What was the 'must'? To stop for an hour or two on His road to the Cross.
There was another cause for pain in "the Garden." The three disciples, whom He had chosen to accompany Him in His dark and lonely vigil, slept as He prayed. We can bring ourselves to overlook the negligence and apathy of Nicodemus and Lazarus and Simon the leper and Zaccheus and the crowds who had merely heard Him preach.
And it has a perfect right to its opinion. We should like to see it in a procession, with Zaccheus, the sacristian, carrying it. Three fine paintings, which however seem to have lost their colour somewhat, are placed in the particular part of the church we are now at. The central one represents the "Adoration of the Magi," and was painted and given by Mr.
Crishna when but a lad displayed remarkable mental powers and the most profound wisdom before the tutor who was sent to instruct him. Christ astonished the school-master Zaccheus with his great learning. Crishna had a terrible encounter with the serpent Calinaga; the infant Christ had also a dreadful adventure with a serpent.
"'There be many trumpets, says he, 'oh yes, an' it wes a good trumpet Zaccheus heard, and afore a' knew where a' wes he hed startit again wi' fower new heads, as if he had never said trumpet. "'A big tree' he cries, 'an' a little man, oh yes, an' this is what we will be doin'. "'First. We shall go up the tree wi' Zaccheus. "'Second. We shall sit in the branches wi' Zaccheus. "'Third.
I say, how easily might they thus have objected? but they knew full well, that the parable was pertinent, for that the publicans were of the Jews, and not of the aliens. I say again, all this they did, as both John insinuates, and Zaccheus confesses. The Pharisee, therefore, was not so good, but the Publican was as bad.
But Zaccheus stood up and said to Jesus, "Lord, I will give half of all that I have to the poor; and to every man whom I have cheated out of anything I will give back four times as much." And Jesus said to him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, for you have proved yourself to be a true son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."
Never mind, when we get to Camden, I'll take good care that old Robin Wilson never comes back." On the next day's march, a party of scouts captured Zaccheus, who was found on the flank of the British army with his gun, endeavoring to diminish the number of His Majesty's forces.
You remember how Zaccheus, the little, short man who had been robbing the people by collecting too much tax-money, climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Christ pass by. Christ told him that He was going to take dinner with him.
Or, if you would, Horace, you're taller, and can reach better. I'm always like the sycamore tree that was little of stature, and couldn't see Zaccheus till he climbed into it." "Rather a new and improved version of the Bible narrative, aunt, isn't it?" asked Mr. Dinsmore, with an amused look, as he came toward her.
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