Article October 17, 1942 Issue

"The guest of God"

D. MURIEL SAVARY

One of the most pressing problems today is to find home and shelter for many who have been rendered homeless in various countries of the world. Thousands of refugees have flocked from their native lands to friendly countries, hoping thereby to start life afresh and to gain new companionships and security. Other homeless ones have turned to the firesides of their fellow countrymen, trusting that they may find there welcome and peace from the storms of war. All these have been seeking a sense of home whence they may obtain support and encouragement to face afresh new tasks and new ways of living.

Where is our real home? Where is that center of joy and companionship from which may best radiate the courage and spontaneity, the happiness and fruition, of human endeavor? Christian Science interprets the true home as spiritual. An understanding of God as the ever-present divine Father-Mother is essential to the establishment in individual consciousness of the true sense of home. True home building, in other words, is the building up in individual consciousness of the permanent realization of God's everpresence and of man's forever oneness with Him.

Men have looked afar off for heaven, making it the subject of much speculation, as a place to be reached only after the experience termed death. But the great Way-shower, Christ Jesus, dispelling this illusion, stated with authority, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

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