Among the human problems caused by the present world chemicalization is that of displaced persons. Families have been scattered, homes broken up, and "stateless" individuals forced to adapt themselves as best they can to changed environments. Those undergoing these tribulations sometimes present such a picture of frustration and misery that the observer may regard their situation as hopeless. Fortunately, however, Christian Science does not encourage such a negative state of mind. Instead, it demands of its adherents that they maintain a steadfast and constructive outlook, acknowledging nothing which is not part of God's creation. Thus trained and dedicated, the student of this Science looks beyond the wilderness of human hopes through which such wanderers are stumbling and sees man as he really is, forever living in Mind.
What happens when we refuse to accept the evidence of mortal mind—when we work compassionately to know that man rests securely in his true home, "the secret place of the most High"? Are we not lighting a beacon in a dark place each time we refuse to accept error as real and lift our thought to a truer sense of man's completeness as the son of God? When we cease to be blinded by the valley mists and the clouds of personal sense, then we begin to see the glory prepared for all God's children, to discern the house not built with hands and not violable by human hands.
The circumstances which affect our daily life are intimately bound up with the concept each of us holds of the home in which he dwells. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (pp. 307, 308): "Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?'"
