Editorial September 22, 1928 Issue

The Only Way

Ella W. Hoag

Men are always looking for a way to reach all goals, a way to attain all aims, a way to solve all problems. Because they have imagined that each one has a mind of his own, they have concluded that there are as many ways to as many ends as there are persons; that each may go his own way in search of his own satisfactions, and these devious paths generally lead to grievous disappointments.

When Jesus declared, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me," he stated the fact for all time—that there is only one way to the attainment of good. To accept this truth is to find the path of deliverance from all uncertainty, doubt, fear, distrust, with their myriad tormenting illusions. Although Jesus proclaimed this way so many centuries ago, Christians for the most part have failed to recognize its perfect, universal nature, as well as its present availability, since they have believed that the Father was only to be known in a future heaven; neither have they realized that God is omnipresent good, and therefore that all that is desirable is included in the Father.

One of the most salient points in the teaching of Christian Science is the fact of the oneness of God and His limitless delectableness. Paul touched upon this when he declared, "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." How greatly does this understanding of the oneness of good simplify the problem of existence to the Christian Scientist! It shows him that there is but one goal, one aim, one problem—to find all good in the Father; and but one way to attain to this end, and that is to demonstrate one's unity with God even as Jesus did. In "Unity of Good" (p. 55) Mrs. Eddy speaks of Jesus as the Way-shower, and then she makes the illuminating declaration: "'The way,' in Spirit, is 'the way' of Life, Truth, and Love, redeeming us from the false sense of the flesh and the wounds it bears. This threefold Messiah reveals the self-destroying ways of error and the life-giving way of Truth."

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