It is ancient history. It all happened 3,000 years ago,' But this man Lot has a host of followers,—many thousands in all ages who make the same mistake. Change the names and the circumstances, and we might write his story in every city in the world. In a lesser degree, perhaps, we all know how dangerously easy it is to make the mistakes that Lot made. Some of us this evening are conscious that like Lot, we have wandered away from companionship with the Abrahams of life, and thrown in our lot with the inhabitants of Sodom, We did not set out to doit. we seemed just to drift into it. Our intentions were never malicious, but we look back and see that we have done things we never intended to do. Too late we realize that we have lost those thing once had and prized,—faith in God, and fellowship with Him,—triendships that were an inspiration and an encouragement,—clean hands, and a clean heart—And we are at a loss to explain just how it happened.
May I suggest that we have made just the mistake that Lot made in those centuries before Christ? That we have not been careful enough in regard: to' the little things; the little ices and decisions that make up tenths of our willing and doing. For little steps make long journeys. Each step may be small, but if they are in the wrong direction, the end is the far country. Eve, in the lesson we read last Sunday, -—the story of the first sin,—looked, and then listened. and longed, and touched, and then took and tasted. A man may walk 'a thousand miles, but he-has to do it stepiat a time.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.