World conditions at the present time make it necessary in many instances for families and friends to part, and for new and difficult adjustments to be made. Under these testing conditions humanity needs to turn to God for peace and stability. For those young men and women who are carrying a heavy load of fear, doubt, and loneliness, Christian Science offers a safe refuge, a peaceful abiding place.

The thought dearest to each individual is that of home, a blessed retreat where one can rest from the toil of the day, surrounded by love and understanding. One need not yield to sadness or discouragement if he seems to lack those things required for comfort and security. It is possible to bring into one's experience all that is essential, as has been proved by countless grateful students of Christian Science throughout the world. Jesus declared, "In my Father's house are many mansions," thus defining the amplitude of the Father's provision for His children. In his real being, man dwells eternally in the home of heavenly harmony, as Christian Science teaches us. There, every need is met. Supply is constantly pouring in from the eternal source, God, providing man with every good gift.

There is one definite condition whereby mankind can possess and enjoy the benefits that God has promised His children. In the first chapter of Genesis we read that "God created man in his own image...male and female created he them." Since we know that God is Spirit and man is the image of God, man must be spiritual. Hence to gain true substance mortal man must look to Spirit, the real and eternal, and away from matter with its falsities. In proportion as he rejects material sense, which claims to separate him from his true heritage, and with assurance claims his birthright as a child of God, he will bring into his experience all that is necessary for his satisfaction and completeness.

Home, like the kingdom of heaven, is within the consciousness of the real man, a structure built and sustained by infinite Mind. God, Mind, is the source of all good, and man, as the individual expression of Mind, is the expression of all good. By reflection he includes health, intelligence and harmony.

A young woman who was facing a drastic change in her life was able, through a demonstrable understanding of Truth, to challenge and overcome the false laws of so-called mortal mind, which claimed she lacked courage and strength to perform the duties her employment demanded. Separated from dear ones by misunderstanding, sent into a strange city to take over a responsible position, she was indeed heavy-laden and afraid. To her waiting thought came the words of Mary Baker Eddy found in the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." She knew that the occasion was at hand to prove what she had learned in Christian Science.

She began to claim the simple truths about God and creation. She realized that God is Love; that God, Love, is omnipresent; therefore, she reasoned, spiritual immensity is now filled with divine Love. It is peopled with God's ideas, and every moment is charged with opportunity to express the loveliness of divine Love, to understand Love and be its expression. Needless to say, the mesmeric burdens caused by despondency, fear, and loneliness dropped away, and in their place came a sense of joy and strength.

The work which she had so dreaded became easier and more interesting, filling her days with opportunity to do some kind deed for those with whom she came in contact. Naturally, a measure of success followed, with a sense of well-being, of a task well done. Also, through her persistent claim to and demonstration of her true selfhood as God's witness to ever-available good, the true sense of home was unfolded.

We cannot be far from home when Truth and Love occupy our consciousness. On page 254 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes. "Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven;" and on page 587 she goes on to define "heaven" as "harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul." Can we conceive of a place more beautiful and desirable than this home whose very atmosphere is filled with heavenly visitants? The thought of home becomes universal when we proclaim the brotherhood of man, and understand that God's promises are meant for all mankind now, not for some distant time nor for a selected few.

The same spiritual law that holds the universe in its course keeps man eternally in his rightful place. God alone determines the destiny of His children, and neither chance nor change can disturb it or permit a single one to remain outside the operation of the divine law. The consciousness of perfect God and perfect man, Principle and idea, of loving one's neighbor as oneself, and the recognition of the truth of Jesus' statement, "I and my Father are one," unite us with the spiritual power that maintains our complete harmony, revealing man as God's offspring. At this moment we can prove, through demonstration, that the promises given in the Bible are ever-present actualities. "Son, thou art ever with me and all that I have is thine," said the father in Jesus' parable of the prodigal son.

The mists of a world crisis with its attendant beliefs of strain and strife must be dispelled by the healing rays of divine Love, the same Love that Jesus expressed as he went about all Galilee preaching the gospel, healing the sick, and comforting the sorrowing. This must be an individual demonstration. Fully to express Life, one must love. By the true reflection of Love we fulfill our divine destiny, and offer to a wartorn world the only medicine that will heal its wounds, the only treatment that will establish peace and brotherhood.

One cannot be established upon the rock, Truth, nor enjoy the blessings of Soul, while hating his fellow man. To entertain critical, unjust, and dishonest thoughts severs one from the blessings of Life, and closes the door on his spiritual home.

Let the Christ enter each heart to bless and comfort, and one by one unlovely thoughts, such as envy, suspicion, hate, doubt, and fear, will be supplanted by charity, honesty, purity, courage, and goodness. Within this purified thinking we find a home that is safe and indestructible, unhampered by the changing forces of time and tide, because its foundations are built on divine Principle, Love.