Article February 20, 1960 Issue

MAN'S DWELLING PLACE

CHARLES BING MAYS

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, once addressed a meeting in Christian Science Hall, Concord, New Hampshire, and spoke for forty-five minutes on the ninety-first Psalm, as recorded in "Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy" by Irving C. Tomlinson. The author tells us (p. 137), "Mrs. Eddy opened her message with the deeply impressive declaration that the ninety-first Psalm contains 'more of meaning than is condensed into so many words anywhere else in all literature, except in the Sermon on the Mount.'"

The first verse of this psalm establishes man's dwelling place, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."

Man, in Christian Science, is the offspring, the reflection, of God and dwells always in the secret place of the Almighty, the atmosphere of divine Love. This place, known to the inspired thought, is unknown to mortal mind, to personal sense, will power, animal magnetism, and all beliefs of sin, disease, and death. This secret place cannot be considered outranked by any higher state of thought or position; it belongs to the Most High, God.

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