A mature Christian will always be abused, will always be oppressed, will always be sought out and hunted, for he, in his being, by his faith, acts, words, is opposing every facet of what the world and hell stand for. So, when you suffer, old man or father, or mother, or matured youth, do not say it is mere punishment, it is the weight of martyrdom that all of Christ’s children, in history, have borne and carried and suffered. It is our cross.