IN a marginal reading of the fifteenth chapter of the book of Proverbs, we find the words "is made plain," in the sentence, "The way of the righteous is made plain," rendered "is raised up as a causey." This word "causey" was the Old English form of the word "causeway," which in latter years has been more or less replaced by the word "pavement," meaning a path raised above the road or carriage way, a path set apart for the safety and security of pedestrians.
Looking at the busy streets of our cities and towns in these days of rush and hurry, one sees that proper causeways are a necessity for the safety of the public. What would be the state of a town without causeways? Suppose that the shops and houses had no dividing line of safety between them and the road—confusion would reign! Men and women going to and from their daily work, the busy housewife shopping for her household, and all whose duties took them out into the streets might find little pleasure in the performance of them; for they might see little but danger on every hand.
Now the way of Christian Science may well be likened to a causeway, for it is the way of uplifted thought, a path raised above the roadway of the false beliefs and temptations of material existence. And as in the busy street the causeway is free to all who may desire to take advantage of its safe protection, so in this dream of earthly existence all may step out of the rushing, roaring traffic of those false claims of sin and sickness which threaten to overrun them, on to the safe path of Christian Science. On page 232 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found only in divine Science."
