The Newtown bee., 1905-06-16
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 THE HOME CIRCLE. LOSING OUR WAY IN THE WORLD. A SERMON BY REV ROBERT E. CARTER
 OF WASHINGTON.
 Text: Kings s: 36: Thou teachest thy people the good way wherein they should
 "Oh whither hast thou led me, Egypt?" Do you remember that cry, that sad, sad cry, from the drama of Antony and Cleopatra; it is one of the most pathetic words in all literature. Oh whither hast thou led me, Egypt? It is the bitter question which An tony, the Antony of Shakespeare, who tony, so different from the heavy, brutal, coarse Antony of Plutarch and of history, this is the cry which An tony sends out to Cleopatra. his queen, when at the end of all their selfish, careless dalliance he finds himself face to face with ruin and death, the ruin and death not only of himself but of his army and of all his friends, and followers. He is at the end. His ca reer so promising, so full of opportuni- ty is destroyed; it endeth in 8 tum- bling ruin which drags half 8 world behind it. Is it any wonder that he turns to her who more than all else has brought him to this pass, whose false councils have been his betrayal, whose treacherous beauty has led him away from the cause he served, and the friends who depended on him, and the nation which he had professed to love. Is it any wonder that this one cry of reproach escapes his lips? Is 1t any wonder that after he has thus spoken, too much of man to continue reproaches even to the one who has been his curse and cause Of evil, he turns again to himself, and says, look ing over his past way, and all his pres ent estate, 'I am so lated in the world that have lost my way forever" Oh what cry is this! And how often has 1t been heard on this our earth; men cry to circumstance, and fate, oh whither hast thou led me? we have lost our way in the world, we seem to have lost our way forever.
 Losing our way in the wOrld-there is such thing; there is such fate: Shakespeare has written the tragedy of it as we have said in that great drama of Antony and Cleopatra; and King Solomon knew that there was such a danger and such fate for men and prayed for his people that they might not fall into it, or if they fell and lost their way in the world that God might hear from his holy heaven, and if they confessed their sins for give and bring them back again, be- cause as solomon said in kingly faith: "Thou teachest them the good way in which they should walk"
 Yes
 THERE IS SUCH A THING AS MANS LOs-
 ING HIS WAY
 in the world. There is such thing by carleSS, Or thoughtleSS, or preSump- we know not where we can turn, what we can do, whether there be any long, era possible way in which to go; on every side is only ruin and shame and an outcast life. Yes there is such 8 thing as losing our way in the world, and very many, many of whom we do not think 1t find themselves now and then in just that hard situation; they come by their own careleSSneSS or are brought by others misleading, or even by what seems chance, they find themselves where they see no path; they do not know what to do or where kinds, and the way out of 1t that our text brings us to consider to-day.
 And first as W ith Antony, when the path of any life has brought up in a terrible, overwhelming sin, tempta tion which we seem no longer able to resist, sin of the flesh against which no signing of the spirit seems to be of any avail. Surely that is place where one feels that he has lost his way in the world. Where one makes resolves only to break them; where one desires the good only to find himself beset and overcome by the same old his own eyes and ashamed before the eyes of others; surely such one feels with sense that is deep and bitter and sad-oh whither have I been led? 1 have lost my way in the world; this is never the man or the woman that 1 set out to be. It must have been for such as these that King Solomon pray ed at the very opening of Gods tenn pie. For such as these men and wOm en are praying every day that God would find them when they can no longer find themselves; for such as these Christ died that they might huoW giIC bCoNOhly AAOASy 0AN UAO way that leadeth back to God. I want to say to the boys and girls in this church, not as a threatening, not to darken life>-for there are many other very bright things which make rather the whole sum of the world and life but simply as fact which they can see in story and in history, yea they can see it often very much nearer to them than either history or story, see 1t in the home across the street or in the life of someone whose sad story this fact that there is such thing as losing our way in the world; and then I want them to realize that like Solo, mon of old, so today men and women, fathers and mothers, friends and those that love them are going up to God s temple, and praying for them that God will teach them the way in which they should walk, wherein they can never lose their way in the world here or forever
 This losing of our way by the path of open or of secret sin is so common that even he who runs may read, and so sad that even he who runs may we'll stop to weep. And 1t comes so strangely, so suddenly, just like losing your way in the woods, when you find that you do not know where you are before you have realized that you have gone aStray.
 WE PREACHERS HAVE NO FAULT TO
 FIND WITH ANY FUN.
 We do not even think it to be danger ous; we think it much more danger ous for life to be without large re- sources of pleasure and excitement; but we do beseech you to let your fun stop short and halt before anything which conscience tells you is evil and