Article June 24, 1950 Issue

MAN'S PERMANENT HOME

ARLENE SHULL MAHONE

Home! What love and gentleness, what blessedness and peace, this word inspires! The touch of a loved hand, the music of children's joyous voices, the gracious glow of hospitality, the radiant warmth of understanding companionship. But the student of Christian Science knows that all this is but the symbolization of man's true spiritual habitation, which he finds as he realizes man's oneness, or unity, with God.

Compassionately and tenderly Christian Science awakens the weary to behold the spiritual concept of home, not as a place or abode in matter, not as a localized dwelling place constructed of wood, stone, or clay, but as divine consciousness, in which man forever dwells. On page 156 of "Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy" by Irving C. Tomlinson it is recorded that Mrs. Eddy once said to members of her household: "Home is not a place but a power. We find home when we arrive at the full understanding of God. Home! Think of it! Where sense has no claims and Soul satisfies."

To find our true home we must eliminate from our thinking the finite sense of being which claims that the universe is filled with homeless, displaced persons who are searching for a secure and satisfying dwelling place. Home, the true idea, is ever present and indestructible; it has never been touched by war and famine, has never known limitation and lack, has never been broken up. Home, however, cannot be perceived through the material senses; but through spiritual sense man's home is forever safe, harmonious, and intact in Soul. As we better understand God, the quagmire of the deceptive senses fades away and we become progressively conscious of our real habitation. "And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places" (Isa. 32:18).

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