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Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are.
This also confuteth the hypocrites, such as is our Pharisee here in the text, that glory in nothing more, or so much, as that they are "not as other men, unjust, adulterers, extortioners, or even as this Publican"; for these men have missed of the beginning of good which is the forgiveness of sin; and if they have missed of the first, of the beginning good, they shall never, as so standing, receive the second, or the third: Justification, sanctification, glorification, they are the three things, but the order of God must not be perverted.
He was one of the kindest men that ever lived. 'Tanner, the publican, couldn't have been kinder to his own brother, said Andy. 'The local doctor was a decent chap, but he was only a young fellow, and Tanner hadn't much faith in him, so he wired for an older doctor at Mackintyre, and he even sent out fresh horses to meet the doctor's buggy.
Not to speak of the duties and occupations now openly despised, such as that of spy, agent of secret police, moneylender, and publican, there are a great number of professions formerly regarded as honorable, such as those of police officials, courtiers, judges, and administrative functionaries, clergymen, military officers, speculators, and bankers, which are no longer considered desirable positions by everyone, and are even despised by a special circle of the most respected people.
James Tyler, who added to his calling of publican, the several capacities of milkman, cattle dealer, and pig merchant, so that the place was one constant scene of dirt and noise and bustle without and within; this Old Red Cow, in spite of its unpromising locality, being one of the best frequented houses in Belford, the constant resort of drovers, drivers, and cattle dealers, with a market dinner on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a club called the Jolly Tailors, every Monday night.
"I think you had better listen ... A passage in one of the recent letters gave me a hint an idea. I went straight to East the publican, and taxed him with being the accomplice of the writer. I blustered a little he thought I had more evidence than I had and at last I got the whole thing out of him.
And so when he saith, “Let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican,” he presupposeth that the church hath excommunicated him for his contumacy, which he hath added to his disobedience.
'Well, I do think, said the publican, shifting his ground, 'I do think Sir Thomas might ha' managed better in some things. 'He tole me, the elderly man shouldered his way to the bar 'he tole me twenty years ago to take an' lay that font in my tool-shed. He tole me so himself. An' now, after twenty years, me own wife makin' me out little better than the common 'angman!
"Do you tell me that now? And who's to pay you for it?" "Sweeny 'll pay for it," said Kinsella. "It was him ordered it." The sergeant stirred the gravel again with his foot Timothy Sweeny was a publican who kept a small shop in one of the back streets of Rosnacree. He was known to the sergeant, but was not regarded with favour.
I give tithes ... I pray ... I am this, that, and the other thing; not like that wretched publican over there. Yes, this is the fit attitude for us, 'He would not so much as lift up his eyes to heaven. Then let me remind you that this wholesome recognition of facts about ourselves as they are is the sure way to possess the wealth.
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