Acts 28:22: We desire to hear of thee what thou, &c

Reltgion undented and true
Was always by the world decried;
The wisdom, which they never knew,
They still as foolishness deride,
God's children scornfully reject,
And brand them as an impious sect.

But followers of the Nazarene,
Our Lord's reproach we gladly share,
Rejected, and despised of men,
Till bold appearing at His bar,
His confessors with smiles He owns,
Commends, and seats us on our thrones.