Editorial August 5, 1950 Issue

"COME AND SEE"

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

ONE day when Jesus noticed two of John the Baptist's disciples following him, he turned and asked them (John 1:38), "What seek ye?" They replied, "Rabbi, . . . where dwellest thou?" He answered, "Come and see."

The dwelling place to which Jesus invited them was surely a state of mind. We do not read of his living in a luxurious material dwelling. He was continually moving from place to place, healing and teaching. In response to one who expressed a desire to follow him wherever he went, he had said (Matt. 8:20), "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head."

His mental dwelling place was the Father's house—the house of many mansions in which he told his disciples he would prepare them a place. It was the abode of Mind, reflecting the light of Spirit, secure in Principle, and quiet and calm in the gentle radiance of Love. His material dwelling place did not appear to be of much concern to him. Jesus was familiar with his mental abode in the Father's house, for he continuously dwelt there. He remained in spiritual consciousness under all circumstances. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 209), "Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God."

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