Editorial June 23, 1945 Issue

This Is the Way

Margaret Morrison

In the fourteenth chapter of St. John is found a record of one of the last conversations of Jesus with his disciples. He had been pointing out to them the necessity of their following in his footsteps, assuring them that they knew the way. Thomas rather querulously said, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?" In reply Jesus gave these crisp, clear statements: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Here is indicated the great truth that there is one way, and only one, that leads to the Father, divine Principle; to infinite good, health, and harmony.

"Only one way! How narrow!" is a common comment. Yes, it is a narrow way. So is the multiplication table narrow. There is only one way rightly to multiply, subtract, or divide. Yet this one narrow way leads to vast astronomical calculations. No one dreams of calculating correctly by following some other way; by having a personal multiplication table of his own. Have you ever tried having a multiplication table of your own?

The one way of Life, then, is the way of Principle, changeless, undeviating divine Principle. One cannot climb into heaven some other way, and one must continue in that way all the way. If a problem in mathematics seems difficult of solution, one does not stop in the middle of it to divert from the principle of mathematics, from the basis of the multiplication table, to find an easier way of calculating. One does not try to manipulate the numbers after a fashion of his own or some other person's. He must continue in obedience to the principle of mathematics in persistent, joyous confidence, knowing that the correct solution is sure, perfect, and at hand; that it is all that exists in or can be arrived at in the exact processes of mathematics.

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