Article July 2, 1932 Issue

[Written Especially for Young People]

What Are We Building?

ANNA E. HERZOG

Most of us can remember how as little children we delighted in building houses with blocks, pieces of cardboard, almost anything at hand. And how easily the houses were knocked down because they were weak and badly planned! Do not we all still love to build? There is something about the constructing of things that appeals to us all. And so sometimes it is interesting to realize that our whole business is always building.

Paul, who was one of Jesus' splendid followers and who has given us so many wonderful letters in the New Testament, says, "We have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." And Mrs. Eddy, on page 291 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," says, "Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal;" so that Paul must have meant a house made of spiritual thoughts.

Thus we may think of ourselves as being builders of houses of thoughts, of ideas, in which we ourselves live. Just think about it. Isn't it true that we are living in our thinking? Our parents, our family, and our friends, close as they are to us, are not thinking our thoughts. We are thinking our own thoughts all the time; and much of the time we are and shall be alone with our thoughts, dwelling in this house not made with hands, a mental house.

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