Article November 22, 1947 Issue

THE FATHER HAS NO HOMELESS CHILDREN

LALIVE BROWNELL

The word home touches a responsive chord in the hearts of most people, because it connotes to them a place where one is free to work, relax, and enjoy pleasant hours with family and friends. A material and temporal shelter, however, no more represents man's real home than the human body, of which Paul said (II Cor. 5:6), "Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord," represents man's true being.

As through Christian Science one cognizes that Deity is omnipresent Mind, Spirit, Soul, Love, Father-Mother, and that man is His likeness and offspring, he perceives that home is tantamount to heaven, and that both are wholly mental and spiritual. Indeed, a homeless heaven or a heavenless home would be paradoxical!

Scientifically speaking, Soul shelters man harmoniously in spiritual consciousness. This is his God-established home, made of the substance of Spirit, governed by Principle, maintained by Truth in harmony and freedom. Divine Mind, God, is expressed in beautiful, joyous, and peaceful ideas. Spiritual consciousness being infinite and entirely good, mortal beliefs of disease, lack, sin, hatred, or destruction find no residence there. In reality there are no mortal beliefs; divine and perfect ideas alone are real, since immortal Mind is All-in-all.

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