ON a cross-country motor trip one has a definite objective. By means of road maps one finds the best and most direct route to the desired destination. The journey once begun, nothing is more heartening than to find the route well marked. Especially on a dark night in unfamiliar territory, a simple route number showing there has been no divergence from the main highway is as eagerly welcomed as a signpost with more detailed information. And to know the distance to one's destination, and the towns and cities along the highway, is both interesting and reassuring.
Anciently a highway was cast up of stones and raised several feet above the flat or swampy land, making it literally a high way. The Old Testament writers, who were familiar with this method of facilitating travel, frequently used the term as illustrative of the way of righteousness, a mental way, high above mortal mind's bogs and pitfalls. Isaiah wrote (Isa. 35: 8), "An highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; ... the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." And in Proverbs we read (16:17), "The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul."
Christians who have accepted the Science of Christ as revealed to Mary Baker Eddy over eighty years ago clearly understand that this "highway of the upright" is not a road from a locality where confusion and tragedy exist to a locality where God rules, but a mental way of progressive awakening from the dream of unreal material believing to the actuality of the one and only universe, forever God-created and God-governed. Convinced of this great fact, the student of the Bible and of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, recognizes that he must awaken, and that this process of wholly awakening to the truth may be likened to a journey.
