Article October 15, 1921 Issue

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MYRTLE L. NOBLE

In this seeming world struggle for peace and happiness, mortals are striving more than ever before to see home and friends expressed to them in the truer, more impersonal, and therefore more permanent way which seems right to each one. Each individual has his own concept of what to him would constitute a happy home, and the concept is variable as one individual varies from another; yet all are working to see the right sense of home, even though some seem to be taking a roundabout way to accomplish that end.

If one were to believe the so-called senses in regard to home, he might find himself badly mistaken. For instance, it seems to be true that one may have a beautiful mansion and be surrounded by every luxury that so-called material wealth can buy, and yet the real, happy home environment may be lacking because such a one has not learned what true home and friends really are. As Mrs. Eddy says in "Unity of Good," on page 52: "The most beautiful blossom is often poisonous, and the most beautiful mansion is sometimes the home of vice. The senses, not God, Soul, form the condition of beautiful evil, and the supposed modes of self-conscious matter, which make a beautiful lie." This does not mean that it is not right to have everything good and beautiful in one's home, but it does mean, as is stated in Matthew, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." It means that one must live up to his highest understanding of Principle every instant, not only in times of need, and that he must see good, which is spiritual not material, as the source of supply.

On page 269 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul." Now, beginning on this basis, one sees clearly that all is thought, and that all one really has of anything is his own thought about it, or what he accepts as consciousness, whether it be of home, business, church, or friends. Because there is only the one right idea of everything, then there can only be the one right thought of home and that must be in accord with Principle, complete in every way. One definition of home is, "A place of refuge and rest." So one sees that the only home there is must be the divine state of consciousness. There could not possibly be in that home or consciousness any thing or thought that is not right and happy. Then home must be happy and harmonious eternally, and right companionship and friendship expressed in just the way needed.

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