Article September 12, 1964 Issue

"The standard of Christian Science"

ERMINIE ROCK WALPOLE

"There are no favorite sons or daughters in God's family"

Several hundred years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the prophet Micah lived in a farming community not far from Jerusalem, a community where the peasants were oppressed by wealthy landowners. Micah saw the dangers of material-mindedness, and he prayerfully tried to overcome the people's discouragement by showing them God's reasonable demands of them. He wrote (6:8), "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

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