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.