what you know is not true." The reason for such a misconception is, that
it entirely omits one of the factors in the calculation. It considers,
only the Law, and gives no place to the Word in the scheme of things.
Yet we do not carry this misconception into the sciences of chemistry
and electricity. We take the immutability of the Law as the basis of
these sciences, but we do not expect the immutable Law to produce a
photographic apparatus, or an electric train, without the intervention
of a reasoning and selective power which specializes the fundamental
general Law into particular uses. We do not look to the Law for those
powers of reasoning and selection, through which we make it work in all
the highly complex ways of our ordinary commercial applications of
it--we know better than that. We look to Personality for this. In our
every-day pursuits we always act on the maxim that "Nature unaided
fails," and that the infinite possibilities stored up in the Law, can
only be brought to light by a power of reasoning and selection working
through the Law. This co-operation of the Personal with the Impersonal
is the Law _of_ the Law; and since the Law is unchangeable, this Law
_of_ the Law must also be unchangeable, and must therefore apply on all
planes, and through all time--the Law, that without co-operation of the
Law and the Word nothing can be brought into existence, from a solar
system to a pin; while on the other hand there is no limit to what can
be got out of the Law by the operation of the Word.

If the student will look at the Bible Promises in the light of the
general principles, he will find that they are perfectly logical,
whether from the metaphysical or from the scientific standpoint, and
that their working is only from the same Law through which all
scientific developments are made. If this be apprehended it will be
clear that the Word of Faith is not "trying to make ourselves believe
what we know is not true," but, as St. Paul puts it, it is "giving