PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS August 20, 1979 Issue

Helping the homeless

The discomfort we feel hearing reports of homelessness throughout the world isn't all bad. They should stir us. We can respond to them on the basis of Truth's demand for progress, and this demand is always felt inwardly. "Discomfort under error," writes Mrs. Eddy, "is preferable to comfort."^{Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 101;}

The discomfort of the world as it watches the plight of Vietnamese refugees has stirred it into action. Following a world conference, the United Nations has taken steps to work with the Vietnamese Government. Many countries are now allowing these refugees to immigrate. But the world still must find even more effective and permanent solutions for these refugees and others, such as the thousands of Cambodians fleeing civil war and crossing into Thailand, itself already overcrowded with refugees. There is a spiritual answer to homelessness, and Truth perpetually demands that each of us find it. In reality, man has never left the embrace and government of divine Principle, God. Christian Science reveals that man is the idea of Principle, the tenderly maintained object of Love. This manifestation is spiritual and complete and controlled by its Principle.

Within the truth of man's relationship to God lie the answers to all questions about home—whether the searchers are a single family or a virtual nation. Man, the compound idea, or image, of infinite Mind, actually has all he needs. Conceived in completeness, Mind's creation expressed in man is active, useful, fully endowed. Every idea fits distinctly and perfectly in Mind's infinite design and remains there. The absolute, inseparable relationship of man to his divine Principle is forever maintained by Principle. This underlying truth is the basis for demonstrating divine Love's answer to every human need. There is no ejection of any idea from its rightful place in Mind.

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