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Moving House but Not Home
For some people, moving house is an annual or even more frequent routine. It can seem like a normal way of life for many families of people whose business interests and professions require constant relocation. They look upon it as a necessary evil and work to minimize disruption in their lives as a result of it.
Moving house need not upset or injure anyone. One mature and well-adjusted woman, now a Christian Scientist, admits to having moved so often in her childhood that she attended eighteen schools. But she insists that it did her no harm. Thinking about it now, in the light of what Christian Science has taught her in regard to home, she says she realizes that moving house is not identical with moving home. "Home is not a place but a power," Irving C. Tomlinson, Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1966), p. 156; as Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is reported to have once said. Obviously, then, one does not disrupt one's enjoyment of the power of home by changing one's physical location.
Home is not a material building but a God-given spiritual idea. This idea is inherited by every individual child of God and is experienced now as a state of consciousness redolent with those spiritual qualities that we associate with home and that make life a blessing—peace, safety, love, joy, companionship, and many more.
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October 24, 1977 issue
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"By many infallible proofs"
GEORGE DEVEREUX BRYSON
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The Dynamics of Man's Being
SHANNON BAILEY
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HYMN TO GOD THE GIVER
Jack Edward Foss
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Heal Family Discord with Scientific Christianity
RUANNE Y. GENTRY
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Surviving a Divorce
DOROTHEA T. LEAMY
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Where Do You Live?
JOHN HAY SCOTT
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MY HOME
Grace K. Sterling
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Martha Work and Mary Work
JOHN K. DANIELS
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REMEDY
Margaret Singleton Decker
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True Story or Fairy Story?
Sarah Chapman Eastman
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"The one only way"
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Moving House but Not Home
Naomi Price
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When I was four years old, my mother was said to be dying of...
Virginia Fritz Dowd
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I wish to state my profound gratitude for Christian Science, particularly...
Diana De Jersey Rodwell
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I wish to express my gratitude for the greatest blessing of my...
Rita M. Goldschmidt
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"Now let's see if Christian Science works," challenged a dear...
Willard Glenn Goldsmith
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Some years ago in my work I was required to read prices on...
Cecilia R. Villani
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Our family has received many healings through the application...
Maria Diva Völker