octrines of the
spiritual Textbook whose truthfulness they have refused to put to the
laboratory test of experience, and yet at the same time claim to be
actuated by the scientific spirit? Those who do such things know nothing
about the scientific spirit! Canon Dyson Hague was scientifically correct
when he said that the rationalists are being opposed, not on the ground of
their scholarship, but

because the biblical criticism of rationalists and
unbelievers can be neither expert nor scientific.

There is but one conclusion possible. The man who intends to accord primacy
to the spiritual realm will first acquire a verified knowledge of spiritual
truth by the laboratory method of experience, according to the formula of
the Textbook. For when he does this he will then be qualified to take the
next step and make the primacy of spiritual truth an actual reality.

=b.= This will Mean Interpreting Natural Truth in the Light of the Bible.

We have now arrived at that point where we can sum up the logic of the
scientific method of the laboratory as it applies to the investigation of
the theory of evolution.

The man who is honest enough to want to know the truth at all cost, and
accurate enough to insist on coming into a knowledge of the truth both by
scientific methods and in the scientific order of primacy, will first
acquire an adequate knowledge by experience, as we have already decided, of
those statements of the Bible that can be verified to the experience, and
then he will for the first time be qualified to arrive at an adequate
estimate of the statements that cannot be so verified.

Then recognizing that all the scientific references of the Bible, including
those relating to origins, are in that class that can not be verified to
the experience, he will decide to come to no conclusions concerning them
except such as will maintain both the primacy of primary truth and the
unity of all the realms of truth. He will do this because it is the only
thing he can do and still maintain a truly scientific attitude of mind.

This will mean that he will interpret all the non-experimental statements
of the Bible, including the scientific references, in harmony with and in
the light of those spiritual and experiential truths which he has already
had verified to him through his own personal relations with God through
faith in Christ. In other words, he will maintain the primacy of spiritual
truth by allowing no interpreta