Editorial August 5, 1944 Issue

The All-knowing, All-knowable

Evelyn F. Heywood

What men know, is permanent and reliable; what they believe, is transitional and uncertain. Belief must either be abandoned for the substance of knowing or it will continue in the unenlightened obstinacy of the accepted unproven.

Do men believe in God or do they know Him? Their lives alone can attest the answer to this question. If they believe that He sends sickness and sin, sorrow and limitation, then assuredly they do not know Him; assuredly also they do not know themselves.

"Who or what is it that believes?" asks Mary Baker Eddy on page 487 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." And her reply is in part as follows: "Spirit is all knowing; this precludes the need of believing." The sick man is restored to health when he learns to know that there is no place for disease in the one Mind; the soldier, sailor, or airman in the midst of disaster, destruction, and mortal peril who knows that Spirit is all-powerful and everywhere present, is freed from fear and finds himself secure. In such experiences do men prove what happens when belief is precluded in favor of knowing.

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