The Danish Peace Academy

GANDHI AND NORDIC COUNTRIES

Letter, [March 18, 1920]

Bombay,

Thursday [March 18, 1920]

Lord, it belongs not to my care

Whether I die or live;

To love and serve Thee is my share,

And this Thy grace must give.

If life be long I will be glad

That I may long obey;

If short, yet why should I be sad

To soar to endless day?

Christ leads me through no darker rooms

Than He went through before;

He that unto God’s kingdom comes

Must enter by this door.

Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet

Thy blessed face to see;

For if Thy work on earth be sweet,

What will Thy glory be?

My knowledge of that life is small;

The eye of faith is dim;

But ’tis enough that Christ knows all,

And I shall be with Him.

Richard Baxter

My dear child,

Another evening has come to fill me with thoughts of you. I pass them to our common Maker to make of them such use as He will for your good.

With love,

Yours

Bapu

Source: My Dear Child, page 63; Collected Works, Volume 17, page 95

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