Rebuilding is a topic of perhaps more general interest today than ever before in human history. For, as a result of war conditions, homes, towns, even countries, must be built up anew materially and spiritually. Let us then consider how we may rebuild on a surer foundation, a foundation that cannot be shaken, whatever storms may arise.
According to the Scriptures there is but one real foundation. "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ," we read (I Cor. 3:11). If we want our building of homes, cities, and countries to stand, we must build upon the rock, Christ—that is, upon a spiritual foundation. Whatever is built on the material theories of mortal mind is "built ... upon the sand." Of the house thus built the Bible says (Matt. 7:27), "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."
During the war years just past people found how fleeting is all that originates in mortal mind—wealth, fame, material power. Earthly belongings were destroyed, popularity was displaced by scorn, might was turned into helplessness. Those who lost all that they had striven perhaps a lifetime to acquire can take comfort, however, in these words by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science (Poems, p. 4): "Loss is gain." Christian Science offers those forced to build up a new life, home, or position fresh and greater opportunities for starting on a higher, more spiritual level with purer motives and aims. In this spiritual rebuilding they will find that they can wrest a blessing from the loss of those things which might have prevented their turning wholeheartedly to God.
