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Life, God, is All-in-all. Therefore all creation—all of God's ideas and identities—must be eternally alive in spiritual perfection.

God and His reflection constitute all that exists. Man, the image of God, is the highest idea of God, and man is spiritual, not material.

One marvels at the skill of the architects and builders who are able to restore famous landmarks, ships, buildings, and even entire settlements that have been neglected or that were destroyed many years ago. These experts, however, consider it more or less a routine assignment once they obtain the plans or design of the original.

Perhaps you have heard someone say, "He must be a real Christian; it shows in his face. " Some explain it as a glow, a light, a warmth.

In the garden of Gethsemane, on the night before his crucifixon, Christ Jesus found the disciples asleep and said to Peter, "What, could ye not watch with me one hour?" ( Matt. 26:40.

One of the emphatic purposes of Christ Jesus' ministry was to present to humanity the foundations of a real and abiding peace, a genuine joy in living. Christian Science, in the footsteps of the Master, challenges and destroys the errors of material sense, such as sorrow, hatred, sin, disease, and limitation, which belittle true manhood and confine happiness to mortal events and material arrangements.

The Bible gives the account of how Nehemiah and his fellow workers succeeded in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem in spite of the foes who sought to deter them on every side. Their success provides inspiration to all who prayerfully work to build spiritual fortification against the ills that seem to besiege mankind.

Christ Jesus' understanding of the innocence of God and of man in His image enabled him to comprehend his own true innocence and gave him his great power over all phases of mortal malice and its effects, namely sin, disease, and death. Spiritual innocence, expressed in human experience in purity of thought and deed, will do the same today for everyone who practices it.

With what is one living? If one's thinking is based on the understanding of man's eternal oneness, or unity, with God, his answer will be that he lives with God and therefore with His serenity, security, and dominion. On the other hand, if the individual regards himself as a mortal, with a consciousness and life separate from God, he may feel that he lives with uncertainty, with fears and frustrations of various kinds.

In an article called "Admonition," found in "Retrospection and Introspection," Mary Baker Eddy makes this statement ( p. 78 ): "The neophyte in Christian Science acts like a diseased physique,—being too fast or too slow.