Article October 10, 1959 Issue

OUR TRUE HOME

GLADYS ELLA GIBBS

THE Psalmist declared (Ps. 90:1), "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations," and in Acts we read of God (17:28), "In him we live, and move, and have our being." The acknowledgment and understanding of these spiritual facts replace the popular concept of man's dwelling place as a material edifice, localized in matter and subject to the hazards of materiality. "This understanding affords the solution to every problem concerning the human sense of home. With the exchange of the false concept for the true come infinite blessings.

Though her discovery of the purely spiritual nature of man and the universe and the consequent nonexistence of a material creation, MAry Baker Eddy, the author of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," threw the needed light on such passages from the Bible as those just quoted.

On page 336 of Science and Health she writes: "Immortal man was and is God's image or idea, even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immortal man is coexistent and coeternal with that Mind. He has been forever in the eternal Mind, God; but infinite Mind can never be in man, but is reflected by man." The words, "He has been forever in the eternal Mind, God," reiterate the Scriptual teaching concerning man's true home or dwelling place.

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