And Zacchaeus stood, and said
unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I
have taken anything from any man by false
accusation, I restore him fourfold.
(Luke 19:8)
A short speech; but how the
words have come ringing down through the ages!
By making that remark Zacchaeus
confessed his sin—that he had been dishonest. Besides that, he showed that he
knew the requirements of the law of Moses. If a man had taken what did not
belong to him, he was not only to return it, but to multiply it by four. I
think that men in this dispensation ought to be fully as honest as men under
the Law.
I am getting so tired and sick
of your mere sentimentalism, that does not straighten out a man’s life. We may sing
our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to
God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.
Nothing will give Christianity such a hold upon the world as to have God’s believing
people begin to act in this way. Zacchaeus had probably more influence in Jericho
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