RECTOR F. W. CLAMPETT, of Trinity Church, San Francisco, has recently issued his pronouncements on the Bible. Taking for his text, “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good,” he flatly tells us, according to the news quotation, “that there is not a scientific truth in the universe that can be logically proven. The only truth we know is the truth of life, and that can not be demonstrated.” And yet the rector informs us that “evolution is throwing a flood of light on Christianity.” This flood of light has led Mr. Clampett, and most of the “thinking men and women in the church, or out of it, to reject “the Biblical narrative of creation.” He does not think that “it was ever intended that man should believe that God created the universe in six days, and rested on the seventh.” Incidentally, it may be remarked that the Bible nowhere affirms that God created the universe in six days. All that was done “in the beginning.” But if God never intended that the record of the six days of Genesis 1 was to be believed to be six days’ record, why are they so stated repeatedly in His Word? All this the rector meets with another unbelief: There is a great body of church people to-day who do not believe in the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures. And, therefore, what does the story of Genesis amount to? True, it declares that God wrought all that work concerning this earth in six days, by His own almighty power; that the Sabbath is the memorial of that power (Ex. 20:8-11); and that creative power is pledged to save poor sinful souls who need recreating by the power of God, who need God’s Word to speak light and order and fertility into the darkness, chaos, and barrenness of sin. But the rector and others tell these heart-longing ones that God does not mean this, that the Sacred Record is only an allegory, or poem, telling us how ages upon ages of evolution wrought all the imperfection we see now; God does not mean what He says, sometimes the writers of His revelation struck the scientific truth—which can not be5logically proved—and sometimes they did not. Away go miracles, the reincarnation, the resurrection, conversion, regeneration, the new heavens and new earth, and all the blessed hopes which the Bible holds before us! This is their Gospel. For if the record of creation by the mighty power of God be not true, what hope is there for the sinner, save through transmigration of soul and endless ages of progression, which does not progress, during which millions perish and fossilize, unless by some hocus pocus a spark of conscious, bodiless life survive “the wars of elements, the wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.” What a Gospel is offered us in this! It was never preached by Moses or Isaiah or Jesus or Paul. Better the dogmatism, the superstition, the tradition, of the Roman Catholic Church to-day, than the utter chaos of a “higher-criticism” Protestantism. Take away the story of Creation and the Fall, and there is no need of Christianity. Christ and His all-comprehending, glorious character is—well, a quite, truly, remarkable product of evolution, toward which the race is tending; but no more! It is all a black, blighting lie, remonstrated by the mighty miracles of Christ and Christianity over desolating ages, over the fatal disease of sin. The need of the Christianity of Christ is based on the Fall of Man, as recorded by Moses; and he who rejects Moses will sooner or later reject the essentials of Christianity, as saith the Master: “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me; for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?” John 5:46, 47. But, believer in the Bible, and Christianity; do not be alarmed. The present aspect of infidelity, which is not original with Mr. Clampett, with the glitter and tinsel of all that is worldly and worthless, will, in the light of the burning glory of the day of Jehovah, crumble, and wither, and burn; but the Old Book will stand till every pilgrim is safe home, and its immortal truths are written in living, eternal principles on the hearts of the faithful.