<h2><SPAN name="page88"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>THE NEW COMMANDMENT</h2>
<blockquote><p>‘<i>Let go the Cross</i>’—<span class="smcap">Gertrude Runshon</span>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p class="poetry">I heard a strange voice in the distance
calling<br/>
As from a star an echo might be falling.</p>
<p class="poetry">It spoke four syllables, concise and brief,<br/>
Charged with a God-sent message of relief:</p>
<p class="poetry"><i>Let go the cross</i>! Oh, you who
cling to sorrow,<br/>
Hark to the new command and comfort borrow.</p>
<p class="poetry">Even as the Master left His cross below<br/>
And rose to Paradise, let go, let go.</p>
<p class="poetry">Forget your wrongs, your troubles and your
losses,<br/>
For with the tools of thought we build our crosses.</p>
<p class="poetry">Forget your griefs, all grudges and all fear<br/>
And enter Paradise—its gates are near.</p>
<p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page89"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p.
89</span>Heaven is a realm by loving souls created,<br/>
And hell was fashioned by the hearts that hated.</p>
<p class="poetry">Love, hope and trust; believe all joys are
yours,<br/>
Life pays the soul whose confidence endures,</p>
<p class="poetry">The blows of adverse fate, by larger
pleasures,<br/>
As after storms the soil yields fuller measures.</p>
<p class="poetry">Let go the cross; roll self—the
stone—away<br/>
And dwell with Love in Paradise to-day.</p>
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