his goods, and fourfold restitution. And our feeling is correct.
Zaccheus, according to his lights, performed a great deed. He had
not even begun to do good. He had only begun in some small measure
to purify himself from evil, and so Christ told him.

He merely said to him: "To-day is salvation come nigh unto this
house."

What if the Moscow Zaccheuses were to do the same that he did?
Assuredly, more than one milliard could be collected. Well, and what
of that? Nothing. There would be still greater sin if we were to
think of distributing this money among the poor. Money is not
needed. What is needed is self-sacrificing action; what is needed
are people who would like to do good, not by giving extraneous sin-
money, but by giving their own labor, themselves, their lives. Where
are such people to be found? Here they are, walking about Moscow.
They are the student enumerators. I have seen how they write out
their charts. The student writes in the night lodging-house, by the
bedside of a sick man. "What is your disease?"--"Small-pox." And
the student does not make a wry face, but proceeds with his writing.
And this he does for the sake of some doubtful science. What would
he do if he were doing it for the sake of his own undoubted good and
the good of others?

When children, in merry mood, feel a desire to laugh, they never
think of devising some reason for laughter, but they laugh without
any reason, because they are gay; and thus these charming youths
sacrifice themselves. They have not, as yet, contrived to devise any
means of sacrificing themselves, but they devote their attention,
their labor, their lives, in order to write out a chart, from which