Article March 21, 1953 Issue

THE ETERNAL HARMONY OF MAN'S TRUE HOME

MYRTLE A. CASH

In its highest and most spiritual A signification, home is heaven. Heaven is harmony, and harmony is the manifestation of man's at-one-ment with his divine Principle, God, who is Love. In human experience an understanding of the divine concept of home is manifest in preferring another above oneself, in quiet yielding to divine Love's government, in undoubting acceptance of Love's infinite abundance, in practice of divine economy and simplicity of living. The reflection of the protective and corrective government of divine Love companions patience with firmness, generosity and hospitality with honesty and sincerity, meekness with courage of conviction, justice with mercy, compassion and forgiveness with the right concept of man, which bars the door to evil influence by seeing man as Love's idea.

Love and Love's ideas are inseparable from one another and from home. Therefore in Love's dwelling place the true concept of man and home is ever present. This dwelling place of Love is the "kingdom of heaven," defined by Mary Baker Eddy on page 590 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as "the reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme." This kingdom is and always has been the real man's only home, where he lives in unbroken, joyous reflection of good.

Mortal sense testimony, however, does not confirm this truth. So, in distinguishing between the mutable and the immutable dwelling place, that is, the material and mortal and the spiritual and immortal sense of Life, the Apostle Paul writes (II Cor. 5:1), "We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." One definition of "tabernacle" is "a transient shelter." The earthly house, then, might symbolize the merely human sense of love, that is, of temporal shelter, comfort, and provision in the midst of human unrest; the indissoluble heavenly home is the sheltering presence of spiritual understanding, vision, wisdom, security, and love, where mistakes, lack, confusion, loneliness, and disaster are unknown.

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