Article February 27, 1932 Issue

Hospitality

EVELYN WEBB SUMNER

"Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."

Hospitality—what a beautiful word; what lovely mental qualities one associates with it: kindliness, thoughtfulness, generosity, love, compassion, tenderness, unselfishness! Does a loving, generous heart long to express hospitality and feel unable to do so because of a sense of limitation and a lack of this world's goods? Let such a one look up to God and see that hospitality is a divine idea expressed through reflection by all of God's children.

God, who is the Giver of all good, is never hampered by material limitations. In His house is a wondrous welcome for all. And there can be but one house, one infinite divine consciousness, since there is but one Mind, God. Dwelling there, we reflect the Father's welcome, entertaining the true, God-given idea of our brother, thus realizing the meaning of Mrs. Eddy's compassionate words (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 254), "Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God."

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