Editorial December 17, 1938 Issue

The Right of Way

George Shaw Cook

Mary Baker Eddy , in a letter addressed to officers of a Christian Science Sunday School (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 232), wrote, "The right way wins the right of way." And this truth may be applied in more ways than one. Whether the obstacle to one's progress appears to be entirely material or assumes a more mental aspect, the fact remains that the right of way through, around, or over the obstruction will be found if the right way of thinking is held to firmly and faithfully.

Moses and the Israelites, when pursued by the Egyptians, were confronted by a seemingly impassable barrier, the Red Sea. But when, through right thinking, Moses turned to God for help, he received the command, "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." This command may have seemed to mortal sense impossible to obey, but the divine direction continued, "Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it." And the record reads: "Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; . . . and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground." Thus it was proved that "the right way"—the way of obedience to the divine command—won "the right of way" through the apparent impediment to their escape.

In many instances recorded in the Gospels, Jesus found the way of right thinking to be an adequate means of deliverance from difficult and humanly dangerous situations. For example, when the Jews, angered by his preaching, thrust him out of the city to the brow of a hill from whence they intended to cast him down, it is recorded that "he passing through the midst of them went his way." The divine wisdom and intelligence which he reflected provided for him "the right of way" out of this difficulty.

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