ne of these realms.
The =Church= accepts it as her function to receive and propagate spiritual
truth, as God has revealed Himself in His character; while the =Schools=
accept it as their function to study and teach scientific truth, as God has
revealed Himself in His works. This is the entire logic of the existence in
the world of these two separate institutions, both of which are engaged in
the investigation and propagation of truth.

But although the Church and the Schools are entirely separate institutions,
and although they are engaged, one in the spread of spiritual truth and the
other in the diffusion of scientific truth, yet =truth is an eternal
unity=. This must be so, in the nature of things, for all truth proceeds
from and reveals the one and only God Who is its Source and of Whom it is
the consistent and perfect expression.

Conflict between these two realms of truth is, therefore, eternally
impossible. Men talk of a conflict between science and the Bible, but no
such conflict exists. If there is any contradiction, it is not between the
statements of Scripture and the facts of science, but between the false
interpretations of Scripture and the immature conclusions of science.
Herbert Spencer was right when he said:

It is incredible that there should be two orders
of truth in absolute and everlasting opposition.

Not until God begins to contradict Himself will these two realms of truth
ever be in conflict with each other.

The Church and the Schools, then, can never be in conflict until some
abnormal condition creeps into the one or the other; for, although working
in different realms of truth, each is yet receiving revelations of the one
God who can never be in conflict with Himself.

When these two institutions are in normal condition, each will not only not
destroy the work of the other, but each will make every possible
contribution to the success of the other, and antagonism between them will
be impossible. When conflict occurs, therefore, it is because the teachers
in one realm or in both have not arrived at the truth in their respective
realms.

And so when the Church denies the =facts=--not the unproven theories,
notice, but the clearly demonstrated =facts=--of science, something is
wrong with the Church. And when the Schools put forth =theories= that
undermine the very foundations of the Church and her work, there is
something wrong with the Schools.

Now it is no secret that the Chu