Article April 27, 1946 Issue

Repatriation

VERONICA VIOLET PARK

Now that the vast struggle of the last few eventful years is over in most parts of the world, the thoughts of many are turning to those being repatriated.

Hoping for the return of a dear one from distant lands, the writer realized that she had been doing much wishful thinking, instead of thinking rightly in obedience to the instructions of Mary Baker Eddy. One such instruction is found on page 269 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she writes, "Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul." It was seen that the question of repatriation is basically a need for right adjustment, and that our thinking is all that ever needs to be adjusted for the solving of any problem.

What a perfect lesson on repatriation is given in Christ Jesus' parable of the prodigal son! Are there not many today who are weary of that "far country," the land of famine, with its husks of materialism, which can never satisfy? It is most comforting to know that as soon as men arise and go to the Father, they have started on their journey home, to the kingdom of heaven. They are awakening to the fact that in reality man is already there, no matter what the Adam-dream would have them believe.

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