Article September 13, 1952 Issue

HOME, THE EVER-PRESENCE OF GOD

CORA L. SLAUGHTER

"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." This wonderful statement, given by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science to members of her household, is recorded on page 156 of Irving C. Tomlinson's book, "Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy."

With customary originality and mature spiritual perception, the beloved Leader of the Christian Science movement clothes the idea of home with the spiritual signification it deserves. Defining home as the power of spiritual understanding, the completeness and eternal satisfaction of Soul, Mrs. Eddy invests the term with its true sense of innate dignity and influence. Thus man's primal and eternal dwelling is understood not as a material structure, but as the consciousness of his oneness, or unity, with God.

Dear to the hearts of all is home. Mankind through the centuries have turned there for the shelter, security, tenderness, and understanding so universally sought. Many have found that, regardless of place, wherever unselfishness, solicitude, compassion, joy, tenderness, and purity are being expressed, there is home. Mankind are learning that anger lust, distrust, false appetites, jealousy, and suspicion must be overcome before a true sense of home can be experienced.

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