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 duty or sighting love which our God given impulse tells us is right; it is on- ly then that there is no hope for us of finding again the way and coming out again into clear light. So that is a second kind of losing our way in the world, and that is the way Gods spirit answers prayers to lead us back. And there is still another way by which sometimes we seem to lose our way in the world-sin and doubt and some times by failure, failure in what is not sinful but right; failure in worthy and good intents and purposes. Often those who believe in God and trust Him. too, and who have tried to Seve Him, yet come into places of life where it seems as if they had made some vital mistake or else that circumstances had been too much for them, and all for which they worked, or in which they worked, in this world was done away; their best purposes had gone aStray; their hard est efforts had come to naught. Their whole labor and struggle might as well have been spared or wasted for all that seems to be accomplished there by. Think of the men of the lost causes of the wOrld-men whose con- sciences and hearts and every power were engaged only to have failed-men like Kossuth and Kruger, and the noble SwedeS of whom Wordsworth sung, who never unto fortune bent the knee; or if you will turn to more ordi- nary ways, think of the many whose h,,po h1o hac n disaster or failure. How many of these
 ARE AS IF LOST IN THE WORLD;
 they know not where to turn; they know not what to do; their interests bitions frustrated; they trust in God and believe in righteousness, but even that does not tell them just where in their darkness and uncertainty next to go. They are like the Psalmist who cries, "All thy floods and thy pillows have gone over me-" He knows they are Gods floods; that God rules the storm; yet even so he is overwhelmed and his heart is heavy within him. Did not the Lord Jesus himself come to such place as this when He prayed that the cup might pass from Him or feared that He was forsaken by his II tratiOn here is the old story in the Bible, story of one of the hardest and most pathetic of such places which human life was ever called to pass through. It is we'll to remember it be- cause with it is given not only the pie ture of the terrible sorrow and failure, | but also the history of the way out, of the path of life found again. It is the instance which is given us in the book of the Prophet Ezekiel, and that instance out of the prophets own life. There is chapter in Ezekiel which is the story of one day, just one day, in any man was ever called to live, one that might we'll make him think that | worldly enemies and heavenly prOvi- l dence had all combined to put him far astray. The second chapter of Ezekiel is the story of this one day, and no
 wonder it begins with the word of the
 prophet to himself, saying, "Son of man write thee the name of this day, even of this self-same day." and he
 wrote it as a day forever to be mem- orable in his life, and he tells us why, for in this self,same day the king of 1 Babylon girded his hosts about JeSuSa- lem for the last time. It was the day of the final destruction drawing near
 to that great and loved city. In the
 morning the king of Babylon surround ed the city, and at evening he writes
 'mY wife died," and so together in one
 bitter loss the greatest public disaster to himself and his nation, and the bit terest private sorrow of his own heart,
 in one day they came together upon him. And then he writes the way which he took out of this darkness. In the morning the king of Babylon sur l rO1n6o6 fho nitV and in tho AVpninp his wife died, and on the next morning he spoke unto the people as he was commanded. That is all. This prophet found the way out of deepest sadness and darkness simply by doing the next thing that rose to be done. That was all. Out of his very calamity he drew lesson to give to the people; and he gave it to them. Even though all he loved, and all he had striven after, per ished at once there was one way still out and that was to do what little the spirit laid upon his heart he still could in the doomed city. He could go on giving his prophetic message, and that he did, and so doing walked through his day of darkness. It is the
 way. It will be the only way for you or me when we come to any such place or places. Even though the thing left to do be very little; even though what failed was great,and what is left is m is- erably small, yet do what there is still commanded, what there is still left in life to accomplish.
 THAT IS THE WAY OUT.
 That is Gods leading, and So doing l it may well be as it was with EZekiel'S message that what he had left to speak when all had failed him was still | worth hearing, and the voice of it com 1 ing out of his despair was voice that did Gods will and brought a divine l message to the listening ear, even to l this day. Always do as best we can, trusting God, the thing that is next to do, whether it be the last finishing of great and praiseworthy work which many laud, or whether it be but the feeble taking up of a new, trivialj work when much we tried had passed away. That is the way, and the only way, by | which any who find disaster or fai lure darkening their way can come nto the light.
 For the last word, friends, of all these teachings, whether we find our path dark by overcoming sin, or by deaden
 ing doubt, or by manifest disaster, the last word is simply the grand old mes- sage that whosoe yer seeketh for the way to God, God is already seeking and striving on the way to that man. Those that seek shall find, because those that seek shall be found. That is the real and final reason. Those that ask shall receive, because Gods love is already asking us to come in and give Gods grace to us. If there is nothing else to do you can at least wait as the Scripture says and be of