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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.

Infinitude is the very essence of every gift that God gives to man. For instance, God's love is limitless, without beginning and without end.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 460 ), "Ontology is defined as 'the science of the necessary constituents and relations of all beings,' and it underlies all metaphysical practice.

It is recorded in Luke that as Christ Jesus was preaching, "his mother and his brethren" came to see him and "could not come at him for the press" ( 8:19 ). We read: "And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

As an X ray penetrates the substance of nearby solids, so human genius pierces beyond ordinary insight and capacity, revealing possibilities believed otherwise unattainable. Artists see colors unperceived by the layman.

The therapeutics of Christian Science are divine because they are based wholly on the understanding of the present and eternal perfection of God and man. Mary Baker Eddy's discovery and founding of Christian Science brought to the world the absolute Science of true therapeutics, which was so wonderfully illustrated by the master Metaphysician, Christ Jesus, in his mighty demonstrations of healing.