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Home—"not a place but a power"
Home is not four walls and their furnishings. We cannot understand the real meaning of home if we cling to its outward manifestation. Take away love, and a home does not mean home at all, regardless of how elaborate or beautiful the place may be. The home one loves is the home in which the qualities of love, hospitality, consideration, and integrity are lived. Such a home is a mighty power for good. It blesses not only those within its walls, but every place that its influence touches. In his book Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy Irving C. Tomlinson recalls Mrs. Eddy's words, "Home is not a place but a power." Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy, p. 156:
It is important to grasp that home is a power, not a place, when war or school or business experience or the loss of a loved one separates us from what we have called our home. None of the home qualities we cherish are resident in a material house. Being expressions of God, they must be ever present, ever powerful to make our present experience homelike.

November 11, 1967 issue
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"All that I have"
KIMMIS HARTLEY HENDRICK
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Can I Give a Treatment?
CONSTANCE MARIE NEALE
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Having the Courage of Conviction
HENRY F. MUNDT
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A Perfect Background
ELEANOR SHØBE
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No Bear on His Back
JACK L. EYERLY
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Does God Love Us?
GLENNA GOLDEN WOLLAM
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Home—"not a place but a power"
JACQUELINE L. KRANZ
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The Treasure
SUSAN BARRETT KUPPER
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A Modern Sense of Innocence and Purity
William Milford Correll
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Joyous Remembrance
Alan A. Aylwin
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Each day I find myself saying, "Thank You, Father," for each...
Caroline Forest
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In Proverbs we read (4:13), "Take fast hold of instruction; let...
Neoma Elizabeth Tong
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As the result of a healing experienced by one of my parents, I was...
Stuart R. Johnson
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I attended a Christian Science Sunday School from the age of...
Mildred G. Curby
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When I became interested in Christian Science, it was not for...
Muriel Dintheer with contributions from Harold D. Anderson
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During an unhappy period which ended with the dissolving of...
Elizabeth Ann Klug
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Lloyd Garrison, Frank Broyles