e things of Christ, who will
deny Him the power to interpret to those who will receive it what He meant
by what He wrote? And who but the rationalist and the unbeliever can ever
refuse to let Him reveal the perfect harmony between the facts of nature
and the scientific references of Scripture?

It is the divine prerogative to =cause= us to understand the Book. When the
risen Christ appeared suddenly among the disciples, first frightened and
then scarcely believing for joy, He first convinced them that it was really
He to whom they had already given their hearts, thus quickening their
=faith= into renewed activity, "Then opened =He= their =mind= that they
might =understand= the Scriptures." First faith and then knowledge of the
truth; this is the scientific order.

Luther saw this when he wrote to Spalatin:

Above all things it is quite true that one cannot search into
the Holy Scriptures by means of study, nor by means of the
intellect. Therefore begin with prayer that the Lord grant
unto you the true understanding of His Word.

Even Spencer had a glimpse of this scientific principle toward the end of
his life. In his essay on "Feeling Versus Intellect" he showed that he had
lost faith in his former estimate of the place of the intellect in the
moral realm when he said:

Everywhere the cry is educate--educate--educate! Everywhere
the belief is that by such culture as schools furnish,
children, and therefore adults, can be molded into the
desired shapes. It is assumed that when men are taught what
is right, they will do what is right--that a proposition
intellectually accepted becomes morally operative. And this
conviction, contradicted by everyday experience, is at
variance with an everyday axiom--the axiom that each faculty
is strengthened by the exercise of it--intellectual power by
intellectual action, and moral power by moral action.

What can this mean but that Spencer saw, at least dimly, the radical
difference between the intellectual and the spiritual faculties?

The logic of all these facts and principles makes only one conclusion
possible. When the man of scientific spirit approaches the Book which can
reveal its truths to =faith alone=, he will not be unscientific enough to
refuse faith to its statements and use his =intellect= alone. For he will
see that the one who refuses the attitude of faith toward the Scriptures
will be "ever learning and n