Article June 28, 1958 Issue

THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW WAY

JEANNE ROE PRICE

It was on a Galilean hillside more than nineteen hundred years ago that Christ Jesus, the great Teacher, preached that greatest of all sermons, the Sermon on the Mount. This sermon, Mary Baker Eddy calls the "divine digest of Science." She says in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 3), "Genuine Christian Scientists will no more deviate morally from that divine digest of Science called the Sermon on the Mount, than they will manipulate invalids, prescribe drugs, or deny God."

In this sermon, Christ Jesus has given us the way of life which, if followed, will heal humanity of its strife and pain and establish upon earth the kingdom of God's eternal harmony. Among other directives for living, the Saviour speaks of the evil temptations which beset mankind and warns us that yielding to these temptations leads to destruction and death. He also speaks of the good way of life, the strait gate and narrow way of life. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life," he told his hearers (Matt. 7:14).

The way which Jesus so graciously taught and lived is a wonderful way of life, the God-directed way, the sure way, not a maze of conflicting paths and bypaths, but the way which can be depended upon, accurate and direct.

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