What a wealth of feeling the word "home" calls forth. It touches a responsive chord in every heart, for home connotes a place where happiness, peace, companionship, love, protection, and security abound. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 58), "Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections."

In its highest and most spiritual signification home is heaven. Man, being spiritual, abides in the harmony of Spirit, in the Father's kingdom, or heaven, eternally. Man, God's idea, lives in a beautiful, spiritual, harmonious universe now and forever. Someone may say, This sense of home is very lovely, but of what use is it to me? Can it help meet my need of home and companionship? Yes, Christian Science is a practical religion which, when understood and put into practice in daily life, lifts one out of lack and limitation of every kind.

To exchange material thinking for spiritual understanding is the great need of the world today, and Christian Science shows us just how to do this. To a mistaken and unreal sense of existence, there appear to be laws that cause sickness, lack, limitation, discord. But Christian Science shows and demonstrates that these so-called laws seem to have power in one's human experience only to the degree that one allows thought to acquiesce in them. They are not true because they are not of God.

A student of Christian Science was preparing to move from the country where she had lived all her life to a new country, thousands of miles away. Both she and her husband were of an age when people think twice before uprooting themselves and leaving everything behind that they have known and been used to. It was after a war, and much difficulty was being experienced in obtaining transportation. During the waiting period, prayerful work was done daily to establish in thought the true understanding of place, home, and supply as we are taught to do in Christian Science and to gain a clear sense of the real man's unity with God as His spiritual idea. Wonderful light was thrown on these words—place, home, and supply—as they were studied with the aid of a Concordance. This period of study and prayer resulted in a clearer realization of God's great love and care for all His children, and step Instep came a wonderful unfoldment of truth in thought.

The student began to see the infinitude of God's spiritual creation—the oneness of this harmonious universe, embraced in omnipresent Love and peopled with God's ideas. She learned that man's being is inseparable from the Supreme Being; therefore she could never be outside, shut off, or separated from this all-embracing Love. Wherever she was, God was there; Principle was governing, protecting, guiding, and supplying all her needs. She saw as never before what Paul meant when he said (Acts 17:28), "In him we live, and move, and have our being." Man's dwelling place is therefore already established in the realm of perfection, for he lives in Soul; he is coexistent with God, divine Principle; his dwelling is satisfying, complete, joy-bestowing. Man, God's idea, is now safe and secure and eternally enjoys his heritage.

This unfoldment in consciousness brought release from a sense of frustration and uncertainty, and untold blessings paved the way for the student and her husband to go forward. A passage was obtained in a most unexpected manner, and the move was harmonious in every way.

Divine Love gives without measure; the Father-Mother God holds each idea in perfect harmony, and we can confidently declare that the fact of His great love causes constant unfoldment of truth for every one of His children. As we accept the fact that the real man is spiritual, reflecting the all-knowing, perfect Mind, our ability to discern the spiritual increases, and we are able to reject all erroneous, material beliefs.

We are grateful for every manifestation of good that comes to us through Christian Science, and one of the greatest of these is spiritual understanding. We read in John that all things were created by God and that without Him nothing was made. All things are revealed to us by Truth, imparting its spiritual ideas to each one of us. Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, pp. 502, 503): "The universe reflects God. There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected."

In the years that have followed there have come to this student greater opportunities to serve the Cause of Christian Science.

The truths as stated in Science and Health are waiting unfoldment in every student's consciousness. And to one who gratefully acknowledges the power, presence, and availability of reality at all times and under all circumstances and who strives to realize his dominion over mortal sense testimony, the truth becomes clearer. He is able to reject suggestions based on material beliefs of life, substance, and intelligence in matter. As we grow in the understanding of divine Love, we embrace the world in an irresistible desire to bless.

This aforementioned student has been asked many times if she is ever homesick, and she has been able to reply honestly and gratefully, No. How can one who understands that we embrace our thoughts of church, home, and friends in consciousness and so take them with us ever feel strange or think of himself as a stranger in a strange land?

Jesus said (Luke 17:21), "The kingdom of God is within you." It is within consciousness that we behold and understand God's creation and recognize the power and harmony that go with it. Thus, when physical sense is shouting its spurious claims, we are enabled to remain calm and unshakable in our trust in God. Christian Science comes to proclaim the truth of man's indestructible relationship with eternal Mind; it brings us the demonstrable understanding of our true dwelling place. Demonstration in Christian Science is never a material getting; it is becoming conscious of what we divinely are, and where we really dwell; it is learning to keep human consciousness in relation with the divine and in this way to individualize the power of the Christ in our human experience and thereby to bless all mankind.