Issued Monthly in the Interest of Reasonable Religious Behold I have set before thee an open door. Rev. 3:8 Subscription, per year, one dollar. Single Copies, ten cents Volume Three, Number Five CONTENTS THE MAN AND THE BOOK DARWIN AND HIS MISSION NECESSITY OF FEEDING THE IMAGINATION COMMENT PUBLISHED AT ST. JOHN'S HOUSE, LOGAN, UTAH The Man and the Book. Amid all the mutations of the text of the Book in the attempt to adapt it to the ever-changing significance of language which is in a constant state of flux, no one need mistake the inner spiritual import, which, like an unseen unitary strand of gold, runs from the beginning to the end of the Sacred Word.-WOOD. Things change. It takes no large measure of insight to see that the Constitution of the United States as it is interpreted to-day is a very different instrument from that drawn up by Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and the other leaders. New conditions having arisen in connection with slavery, colonial possessions, and industrial corporations, new meanings have been given to its articles or the old ones changed by judicial interpretation; and yet the Constitution still remains the bulwark of American institutions, conserving the spirit of liberty and representative government as it did at first. In a word, the spirit of government is greater than the mere words of the instrument which describes that government, and continues fixed, even though the meaning of the words of the Constitution changes. It is not alone, however, the Constitution which undergoes new interpretation from time to time, for the process goes on with every document or book that has some living power behind it. It is because such writings are regarded as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves, that they must ever be reinterpreted so as to express to each generation or age the purpose or ideal which stands behind. Few people realize that the Bible belongs in this class, that the interpretation of its pages is continually shifting, and yet that is the process that shows it a living book with a message for each generation. Much disquietude, for instance, is being felt in many quarters today because the method. of historical interpretation and scientific criticism is readjusting many long accepted conceptions of its books. But those who are alarmed probably forget two things, first that the method of inter |