Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. – Matthew 5:10

You have got a poor man who works for you, who wears a fustian jacket. He is nobody. You may laugh at him. He will not tell anybody, or even if he does, you will not be called to book about it, because he is nobody. You dare not laugh so at a duke or an earl. You would mind your behavior if you were in such company as that; but because this is a poor man, you think you have a license given you to laugh at his religion. But remember, that beneath the fustian jacket there is Jesus Christ Himself. Inasmuch as you have done this unto one of the least of His brethren, you have done it unto Him. Has the thought ever struck you, that when you laughed you were laughing, not at him, but at his Master? Whether it struck you or not it is a great truth, that Jesus Christ takes all the injuries which are done to His people as if they had been done to Him… If ye could see Christ enthroned in heaven, reigning there in the splendours of His majesty, would ye laugh at Him? If ye could see Him sitting on His great throne coming to judge the world, would ye laugh at Him? Oh! as all the rivers run into the sea, so all the streams of the churches’ suffering ran into Christ. If the clouds be full of rain they empty themselves upon the earth, and if the Christian’s heart be full of woes it empties itself into the breast of Jesus. Jesus is the great reservoir of all His people’s woes, and by laughing at His people you help to fill that reservoir to its brim. and one day will it burst in the fury of its might and the floods shall sweep you away, and the sand foundation upon which your house is builded shall give way, and then what shall ye do when ye shall stand before the face of Him whose person ye have mocked and whose name ye have despised?~ C.H. Spurgeon

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