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All roads that lead to God are good. / What matters it, your faith, or mine? / Both centre at the goal divine / Of love's eternal Brotherhood.
The kindly life in house or street- / The life of prayer and mystic rite- / The student's search for truth and light- / These paths at one great Junction meet.
Before the oldest book was writ, / Full many a prehistoric soul / Arrived at this unchanging goal, / Through changeless Love, that leads to it.
What matters that one found his Christ / In rising sun, or burning fire? / If faith within him did not tire, / His longing for the Truth sufficed.
Before our modern hell was brought / To edify the modern world, / Full many a hate-filled soul was hurled / In lakes of fire by its own thought.
A thousand creeds have come and gone, / But what is that to you or me? / Creeds are but branches of a tree- / The root of love lives on and on.
Though branch by branch proves withered wood, / The root is warm with precious wine. / Then keep your faith and leave me mine- / All roads that lead to God are good.