Editorial October 14, 1972 Issue

The Importance of Knowing God

Naomi Price

A recent survey conducted in one of the major American cities shows that 98 percent of its varied population believes in God—2 percent more than thirteen years before when the same questions were asked.

In a modest way this fact was confirmed by two high school pupils who undertook a private survey in a supermarket in another city, asking shoppers the question, "Do you believe in God?" Some of the replies appear at the beginning of this Sentinel, and indicate that by far the majority of the people we meet as we go about our daily business do have some awareness of a supreme divine power or intelligence, which they believe creates the universe and is concerned to care for it and for the men and women who are its inhabitants.

On what basis do so many people found their belief in Deity? The national survey indicates that most of them have arrived at their conclusions through reasoning and their own private experience of revelation rather than through accepting dogma prepared by the churches or by inheriting the religious faith of their parents. This surely is a hopeful omen — perhaps even a sign — that the fulfillment of God's covenant with His people is in sight: "They shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them." ^{ Jer. 31:34;}

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