While reading the article from the Christian Union, extracts from which are made in the article in this number of the SIGNS, entitled "Unconcealed Infidelity," one thought forced itself upon our mind. It was, Why is the Bible used at all by those who so utterly ignore its plain statements? When a writer will take the simple narrative of the call of Abraham, and will say that in dealing with the subject he is almost wholly in the field of conjecture, and will then add, out of his own fancy, things directly subversive of the Bible narrative, we cannot see why he might not as well make up an entire story, and comment upon that. Indeed it would be far better, for then those who want the original Bible could have it unadulterated by theological fancy, and those who want the conjectural Bible could take it. But this will not be done; no man could get up anything that would compete with the Bible, and they would soon lose their prestige; so they keep close enough to the Bible to lean upon it when their imagination fails,—close enough to seduce our unthinking people into unconscious infidelity.