736--In ancient times the law of God

In ancient times the law of God

736

	1.	In ancient times the law of God
		In letter was engraved on stone;
		But now it is a law of life,
		Which in our heart is written down.
	2.	The law in letters good demands
		And thus our utter weakness shows;
		But now the law of life sustains,
		And strength for God to please
		bestows.
	3.	The law in letters brings to us
		God's knowledge only outwardly;
		Btu now the law of life supplies
		A deeper knowledge inwardly.
	4.	The law in letters can but rule
		By dead commandments outwardly;
		But now the law of life controls
		By living knowledge inwardly.
	5.	This living law is moving now
		In all of our experience,
		To regulate us from within
		And check us by our inner sense.
	6.	How deep its regulation is
		Within the inmost part of us,
		A living consciousness to give,
		And God Himself impart to us.
	7.	'Tis by this living law of life
		We need not teaching outwardly,
		For all God's living knowledge now
		This law will teach us inwardly.
	8.	Lord, teach us by this law to walk,
		Its inner ruling to obey,
		That we may of Thyself partake
		And know Thee in a living way.