150 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



high demands cannot be made on theology as to the 

 legitimacy and scientific accuracy of its methods." 

 The scientific method is the same whether in the 

 hands of the man of science or the theologian. It 

 is simply proving all things and holding fast that 

 which is true. 



When our doctors of divinity treat Christianity 

 as an evolution, do they not thereby abandon the 

 claim that it is a revelation ? It cannot be both. If 

 it is an evolution, if it came logically and naturally 

 out of what went before, if it was a growth, a de- 

 velopment of the religious conscience of man, then 

 it takes its place in the course of historical events, 

 and the man of science may accept it. In that case 

 what becomes of the claim that it was a revelation, 

 something that had no relation to what went before, 

 something interjected into the course of mundane 

 history from without, an interpolation, a miraculous 

 ray of light from out the heavens ? Science knows 

 evolution, but it can make nothing of revelation. 

 Pilate's old question. What is truth ? is never out 

 of date. 



Ask what is the truth in mathematics, and the 

 answer is easy : two and two make four ; a straight 

 line is the shortest distance between two points ; the 

 angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, etc. 

 Ask what is the truth in science, and the answer 

 comes as promptly, though here the field is as yet 

 only fairly entered upon ; ask what is the truth in 

 politics, and here we are bound to say all men are 

 liars ; the truth is whatever you can convince your- 



