Inasmuch as human environment is but the externalization of thought it can be improved as thought is corrected and spiritualized. Similarly, the apparent lack of a home is not primarily a material condition, but the outward expression of a general belief.

No one would ever think of the multiplication table or any part of it as not being present or available. When we affirm that God is omnipresent, we acknowledge that all that exists is in His omnipresence now. All the ideas and resources of Mind must be present where we are. Moreover, neither God's eternal presence, wherein is all good, nor Mind's constant, unimpaired productiveness has ever been set aside in any apparent lack of home.

The real man lives in divine Mind, in divine consciousness. Home, being the consciousness of harmony, is forever included in man's being. Hence the real man can never be without his home, nor separated from it. It is as natural to him as are honesty and justice. Today mortals can understand and prove more fully, because of the revelation of Christian Science, the harmony, continuity, safety, security, and adequacy of man's home in the kingdom of Mind. In the words of a hymn,

A Christian Scientist was faced with the need of finding a home in a large eastern city where the housing shortage was reported to be very acute. While working on the problem, he concluded that the only solution lay in relying wholly upon God, who does not know meagerness or lack; that because divine Mind knows only affluence and abundance, he, as God's idea, must be conscious of these verities. As he listened to the angel thoughts of God acquainting him with what man, God's expression, possesses, this passage came to him with great clarity (II Cor. 8:11, 12): "Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not."

Then he reasoned that because man already reflects every quality of God he exists in a state of abundance, not of need. The Scientist saw that his only need was to understand and accept as real what he spiritually possessed as a son of God in order to have the evidence of it, "so there may be a performance"—that is, an expression—"out of that which ye have." As he strove to accept only spiritual realities, his consciousness was illumined with glorious truths about home. He became confident that they would be evidenced "according to that a man hath," and that his experience could not be determined by "that he hath not," or by what mortal mind falsely claimed he lacked.

Several acquaintances mentioned that the only possible way to find a home was to know the owner of a building, because owners were allocating apartments that became available to their relatives and close friends. While he was not acquainted with any owner, he did know that all that truly is belongs to God. The Psalmist wrote (Ps. 24:1). "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." Moreover, there was no nepotism or partiality in divine Mind. Was he not related to God as His own beloved son? And was not divine Love caring for him and unfailingly supplying his needs?

This verse of a hymn proved uplifting:

Because man includes the idea of home, the student refused to think of himself as needing one. He clung understandingly to the spiritual fact that his true sense of home, his abiding consciousness of harmony, could never be dethroned or affected by what a group of mortals falsely believed. He had the assuring statement by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 159), "The infinite will not be buried in the finite; the true thought escapes from the inward to the outward, and this is the only right activity, that whereby we reach our higher nature."

The student turned away from interviews, at which hopelessness was stressed, with the thought that there was no reality in the mesmerism that seemed to be binding these people. But he wakened to see that if he regarded man as mesmerized, he was believing in mesmerism. Then he declared that man, the image of God, could not be mesmerized any more than could God, for man ever reflects the one infallible Mind.

God gives consciousness of home, and, since there is but one Mind, there is no mind which can be conscious of homelessness. Man reflecting the one perfect Mind must be conscious of his brother man as provided by God with what constitutes home. Moreover, as the child of God, he rejoices in seeing man expressing this spiritual fact of his being. As these better concepts of God and man were utilized, helpfulness and assistance were forthcoming. And information came from an unexpected, unsolicited source which led to his securing an apartment.

Christian Scientists do not work to demonstrate material things. Rather do they work to apprehend and utilize already established spiritual truths which, in the degree they are apprehended, are externalized in what is humanly needful. One can really demonstrate only that which actually exists and is bestowed on man by God. It is wonderful to know that one cannot seek any spiritual good that man does not already possess, whether it be health, supply, happiness, or home, for all are inherent in man's being as the idea of God. Understandingly to accept these verities as one's own brings to light the evidence of them, for there must be "a performance also out of that which ye have." Man is ever under the law of Love, never subject to so-called material conditions.

The divine decree for man is expressed in Love's ceaseless provision and is unalterable and unassailable. God is always God, forever our loving Father. Nor has reflection stopped. Man is eternally active, reflecting God's being. There is never a moment when God is not expressed or when man fails to express—that is, to possess as reflection—every one of God's qualities. Man abides continually in a heavenly state of consciousness. Indeed, these heartening words of Mrs. Eddy are as applicable to Christian Scientists now as the day she penned them (ibid., p. 139): "Like the verdure and evergreen that flourish when trampled upon, the Christian Scientist thrives in adversity; his is a life-lease of hope, home, heaven."