Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 HOME 393
sion of his room as his home for the time being. He
knows that if he did not thus take possession he would
be disturbed by the thoughts of all the former occupants;
and many other elemental forces. There are many who
do not understand this law, yet they have noticed the
effect on sleeping away from their home; for often on
arising they are conscious of having had a disturbed and
restless night, bad dreams, etc. They really slept without
the protection of a home.
These things being true, it behooves every one-especially
is it imperative for those who have started in
the higher life-to have some place that is a home, even
tho it be only a room-some palace
where the occupant
holds supreme control, and no one can enter only by permission
of the occupant. For those who undertake to
lead the higher spiritual life become more'and more
sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of others; and if
they have no place where a part of the day they are free
from disturbance, their minds become more and more
scattered, until they finally lose their center, and they
become weaker than those who have not begun the
higher life.
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Now this home that'we must guard and protect is only
for our physical bodies to rest, or to repose, or to work in;
then why care so much for the physical when it is the
spiritual that we have undertaken to develop; for no matter
where the body is, we can still hold to the thoughts
of God?
This is true, but there are times when it is necessary
to relax, especially is this true in the case of the
neophyte, and one can relax with impunity only in the
'quiet of his own room. Then again, we must guard this
physical body, because it is the home of the mind and
soul; for if the body is in adisturbed condition, then the
mind and soul is not at rest.
The Christ called his body a temple, all his followers