Article October 13, 1956 Issue

THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW WAY

HUBERTA F. RANDALL

In the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 7:14) we read these words of Jesus: "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" Mathematics beautifully illustrates this statement of Christ Jesus. For instance: If we were to list all the wrong answers to the question, "How much does 2 + 2 equal?" we should fill page after page and never finish.

Among the endless list of answers there would not be one right solution. There is only one correct answer to the question. This points to a spiritual fact of tremendous importance: there is but one Truth, although error seems to be legion. This one Truth is God, divine Mind, the eternal and only basis of all truth.

The myriad wrong answers which would cover our pages represent the innumerable erroneous beliefs which constitute mortal mind. Mortal mind is false, for it is a contradiction; it is "error creating other errors," as part of the definition of "mortal mind" reads, which Mrs. Eddy gives on pages 591 and 592 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." How clearly this is seen in mathematics! Once we accept 2 + 2 = 3 as the basis of our calculations, all our solutions are bound to be wrong. So it is in Christian Science: as long as our starting point is not the one Truth, we cannot solve our problems, for in our prayers we ask amiss.

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