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.
Christian Science,
elucidating the teachings of the Bible, acquaints us with the fact that we have the God-given right to demonstrate immunity from the so-called ills of the flesh, to rise above the testimony of the material senses, and to claim the glorious freedom of a perfect child of God.