James 5:

"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of armies. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you."

TO " THE JUST."

"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rains. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts:for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh."

Conclusion.

Could we be counted among " the just" if we "resist " the oppressors? If we band together to protect ourselves against them? If we take it into our hands to redress our wrongs? Nay, nay, for then we turn oppressors ourselves and come down on the same level with them. "The just" are those in whom Christ's ways are reproduced, and Christ was a sufferer here. The day of His rights, and of ours, is not yet.