Article December 2, 1944 Issue

The Street Called Straight

JAMES ROTHWELL BATTERSBY

Recently the writer had the joyous privilege of walking along the famous street called Straight in Damascus. He could not help wondering what message lay behind the name which it has preserved since the days when Paul was divinely led there and from whence he started his illustrious career.

Obviously it is a straight street in the generally accepted sense of the word. It is typical of an un-deviating purpose, which turns neither to the right nor to the left and has one object in view—to preserve an unbroken line.

Does not this symbolize Christian Science, whose teachings reveal the need of continually keeping to the straight and narrow path of Truth? There is only one way, and the goal is ever before us. Any bends or deviations in the path that appear to human sense are certainly not of God's making, and it is our duty to see that no such misconceptions divert us from our objective.

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