Produced by Kevin Handy, Thomas Hutchinson and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net). THE LAW AND THE WORD BY T. TROWARD _Late Divisional Judge, Punjab. Honorary member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York. First Vice-President International New Thought Alliance_ Author of the "Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science," etc. NEW YORK ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY 1937 COPYRIGHT, 1917 BY S.A. TROWARD _Published, May, 1917 Eighth Printing, June, 1937_ THE LAW AND THE WORD PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE FOREWORD iii I SOME FACTS IN NATURE 1 II SOME PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES 18 III MAN'S PLACE IN THE CREATIVE ORDER 44 IV THE LAW OF WHOLENESS 75 V THE SOUL OF THE SUBJECT 85 VI THE PROMISES 103 VII DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 132 VIII TRANSFERRING THE BURDEN 168 FOREWORD THOMAS TROWARD AN APPRECIATION How is one to know a friend? Certainly not by the duration of acquaintance. Neither can friendship be bought or sold by service rendered. Nor can it be coined into acts of gallantry or phrases of flattery. It has no part in the small change of courtesy. It is outside all these, containing them all and superior to them all. To some is given the great privilege of a day set apart to mark the arrival of a total stranger panoplied with all the insignia of friendship. He comes unannounced. He bears no letter of introduction. No mutual friend can vouch for him. Suddenly and silently he steps unexpectedly out of the shadow of material concern and spiritual obscurity, into the radiance of intimate friendship, as a picture is projected upon a lighted screen. But unlike the phantom picture he is an instant reality that one's whole being immediately recognizes, and the radiance of fellowship that pervades his word, thought and action holds all the essence of long companionship. Unfortunately there are too few of these bright messengers of God to be met with in life's pilgrimage, but that Judge Troward was one of them will never be doubted by the thousands who are now mourning his departure from among us. Those whose closest touch with him has been the reading of his books will mourn him as a friend only less than those who listened to him on the platform. For no books ever written more clearly expressed the author. The same simple lucidity and gentle humanity, the same effort to discard complicated non-essentials, mark both the man and his books.