no matter what it costs him, for that alone will give him
the knowledge of eternal things which will make it possible adequately to
interpret natural truth.

But suppose the inquirer doubts the possibility of entering into a
scientific knowledge of spiritual truth by following this formula, what
then? It can only be because he is so unscholarly as to make the blunder in
logic of assuming as untrue or impossible that which =remains to be
proved=.

No matter on which ground he refuses to surrender to Christ, therefore, no
inquirer after spiritual truth can be either scientific or scholarly who
makes this refusal; for he thereby renders himself not only utterly
incompetent to know spiritual truth, but also entirely unable to accord
primacy to the spiritual realm by interpreting natural truth in its light.

Suppose a man should take this attitude of indifference or unbelief toward
natural truth. Suppose that after refusing to make the first experiment in
the study of chemistry he should attempt researches in a realm whose facts
required interpretation in the light of the chemical laws he had refused to
learn in the laboratory. Then suppose he should dogmatically announce such
interpretations of his discoveries in that realm as were altogether out of
harmony with the most fundamental laws in the chemical realm. And then
suppose that in order to maintain his unfounded and arbitrary
interpretations he should so twist the statements of the textbook on
chemistry into harmony with his theories as to destroy their essential
integrity. He would win nothing but contempt from experienced chemists. He
would certainly find no place in the ranks of scientists.

This is precisely why evolutionists and rationalists, using this method
exactly, can win no response from experienced Christians, and why they
ought to be outside the membership of our churches as long as they pursue
this method. Believers can not listen for one moment to such
interpretations of scientific facts by unbelievers as destroy the essential
doctrines of the Christian faith and deny the inerrancy and final authority
of the Word of God. For unbelievers have not only not secured a scientific
knowledge of what they are talking about, but they have not even acquired
the right to =pass an opinion= on the fundamental doctrines of the Bible.
How can they announce dogmatically so-called scientific interpretations of
the facts of nature which give the lie to the unmistakable d