Article June 9, 1945 Issue

"The solitary in families"

PHILLIPPA G. URQUHART

"God setteth the solitary in families," so we read in the sixty-eighth Psalm. Many times during the present world conflict this promise has been fulfilled. Homes have been destroyed or, in many cases, broken up through force of circumstances, dear ones have been parted, and some left entirely alone to carry on without help. Under such conditions a sense of loneliness may have crept in to add to the discomfiture. But in many instances those whose homes are based on the understanding of God's love for all His children have opened their doors to the solitary, and have glimpsed something of what our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written on page 58 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says, "Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections."

Those who see that divine Love is the center of their home will radiate a sense of joy and warmth, thus attracting those who are feeling lonely. Although such a one may be only a passing visitor, he can be so blessed by the loving-kindness expressed toward him that he will go on his way restored and comforted.

Jesus, who "was in all points tempted like as we are" (Hebr. 4:15), probably met and overcame a sense of loneliness. Although he said, "The Son of man hath not where to lay his head" (Matt. 8:20), no one had a truer sense of home than he. One can readily understand the comfort which the home of his friends Lazarus, Martha, and Mary must have been to him at times during his days of faithful ministry to mankind, and the love which he felt in their welcome of him.

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