The Home Refurnished
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within and without. For the home is also the place to picture forth heaven, and often it is the training school where wild, crude mortality learns the joys of peace, order, and loving service, a preparatory school for heaven here on the earth.
Each home that is consecrated to this ministry of the Christ message and healing becomes an example of purity and harmony to those seeking heaven on the earth. Perhaps your ministry cannot yet be an open one, but it can do a silent work by its hospitality, comfort, restfulness, and love. The very walls can sing of goodness and truth. The common furniture can caress us; the homely fare can give us sweetest satisfaction.
Fill your home with blessing. Remove every suggestion of discontent, If there is a room that savors of selfishness or impurity or deadness in its mental atmosphere, heal it, You can do this by spending in it each day a half hour of silence in which you meditate upon the omnipresence of heaven, declaring
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