====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | AUGUST 1937 ==
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==== IT IS THE LAW ====
I ASK no good where’er I go
\\ That I by service have not won,
\\ Nor plead that any good should flow
\\ Into my life; if I to none
\\ Have given joy, I cannot draw
\\ From empty store—it is the law.

I hold this true—it is my creed:
\\ Within me lies my heaven or hell.
\\ It is by my own thought or deed
\\ I build the house where I must dwell,
\\ A marble mansion, tent or straw—
\\ I am the builder—it is the law.

I weave the garments I must wear,
\\ If beggar’s rags or robes of kings;
\\ ’Tis I the warp and woof prepare,
\\ ’Tis I alone the shuttle flings.
\\ No one for me can thread withdraw—
\\ Myself alone—it is the law.

My Saviour is the good I’ve done,
\\ From this alone my heaven is grown;
\\ My crown the love that I have won,
\\ And deep within is God enthroned.
\\ I to myself will surely draw
\\ That which is mine—it is the law.

None questions but the voice within,
\\ Judge and accuser is my soul;
\\ My mind is that stern discipline
\\ That ever seeks to make me whole.
\\ I cannot from this court withdraw,
\\ I must bear witness—it is the law.
\\ —M. M. Baker.
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