Article February 9, 1907 Issue

THE RIGHT WAY

WILLET G. RANNEY.

SEVERAL years ago the writer and a friend started from a small town in western Colorado and traveled over seven hundred miles on horseback to the Yellowstone National Park We crossed alkali deserts; toiled up mountain-sides; followed narrow trails along the shelving sides of canyons, and were tangled up in fallen timber, where our progress was very slow. Each day that we followed the right road was so much accomplished, and we did not have to do it over again; but sometimes we took the wrong trail, and then our efforts counted for nothing; we had to retrace our steps and find the right way again. The park seemed a long way off at first, and some people whom we met smiled rather incredulously when we told them our destination; but by keeping our objective point in thought and by moving in the right direction at least a little each day, we finally reached the wonderful place for which we had set out.

On our journey in Christian Science our faithful Leader and Guide, Mrs. Eddy, has gone before us every step of the way, and again made plain the right path, so that we have no excuse for not following steadily on. The right way is that of Christ Jesus,—God's way. Any divergent path is that of error. The paths of human opinion and philosophy, the belief in the reality and power of the mortal mind and its outgrowths,—material sense, animal magnetism, sin, sickness, and "whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie,"—all these are divergences from the way of Truth, but if we always remember that these are not of Truth they will have no power to mislead us.

On our mental journey from physical sense to the promised land, our daily effort should be to keep to the right way; to discern quickly the erroneous, divergent thoughts which cross our pathway, and to avoid them. This we can do with the aid of the Bible and Science and Health, and by seeking the guidance of the one Mind. Inasmuch as each step in the right direction is effective in advancing us on our way more than all our wanderings off the right track, so is the smallest realization of the truth more powerful than all error. "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."

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