Jesus Himself was
poor. He did not belong to the rich. He passed His time in the desert,
traveling among the poor, and lived upon the herbs of the field. He had no
place to lay His head, no home. He was exposed in the open to heat, cold and
frost—to inclement weather of all kinds—yet He chose this rather than riches.
If riches were considered a glory, the Prophet Moses would have chosen them;
Jesus would have been a rich man. When Jesus Christ appeared, it was the poor
who first accepted Him, not the rich.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, 19 April,
1912, New York; ‘The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by
'Abdu'l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912’)
