Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-19
Borrowing Trouble.
sEREoE BY TIE REy. De. HKAIG.
From the Inter Ocean.

FROM me AGler-tcean.
At the. Nin.h Presbyterian Church,
Ellis avenue, below Phirty-seronth
street, in the evening, the Rev W,
w NcKaig, D. D, delivered a dis
course concerning the Foolish Habit
Of Borrowing Trouble, which was
full of hea)thful 0tterances, aud which
contained passages cf especial applica-
tioa TO his arrajgnnent for his pillar Of
salt sermon, and, whether SO designed
or not, some severe structures on the
grim school of fire and birthstone theo-
logians who impeaca his orthodoxy.
Selecting for text, Take therefore no.
thought for tie morrow. for the NOR
row shall lake thought for the things
T Itself sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof," Dir. McKaig said that
Jesus meaning was net that life
should be aimless, nor that it is sin for
US to find N our hope in the future
our highest inspiration. Tt was the
painful foreboding3 aboet things veiled
from sight that was rebuked. It drew
ont the tremolo stop in man, and
closed all the rest, and set all the soul
in a tremor, filing as with speetres
and making us the creatures Of phan-
tiams. Fear, he SAID, sits in the win
dow, field glass IN hand, and sweeps
the horizon. Bigotry. in haEd. metal
lie tones, wants to know what is seen,
( see, says Fear, the reign Of Anti
Christ; the ten plaques Of heresy
&fe abroad. Men say the world was
net made in ak days. that i vas not
a ycritabie serpent that tGmPted5 I've.
that the shadow could not have gope
back en- the dial Of Ahor without
shaking the universe into chaos. The
Church is in danger, tse Bible is
about to be trampIed in the mud by
the hoofs Of unclean beasts. And yet
all this while there is not a cloud upon
the sky. The world within creates the
world around US. 4 hopeful. pure,
and cheerful mind sees thc world filed
with good men and good women, and
the ioTe. of God Pervading all, while a
mQrhid; narrow, gloomy mind sees
only ruin; evil. and misery far in the
track Of the future x < Il
,e. With many no doubt, this unhappy
frame Of mind is a constitutional in
trinity Natures stepchiIdren for
whom the world is always draped in
IN mourning constitutional grumbIers,.
who only look On the black side, and
who see the world going straight to
the devil, and every man and every
thing TO be worse than appears. They
can suck melancholy out of a song as
a weasel can meat out Of an egg.
Their creed is diIiberate stepping
from one tie TO another Between the
rails, never looking to right or left for
fear they might sec some new truth,
Their religion IS one long groan, and
IN their prayers they are always telling
God what a miserable world this is,
and what fool he was for making it. |
In the future they see nothing but a
Book Of Revelations. full af tie seven
thunders and ten-headed dragons. and |
the devil pouring out the yials Of per-
dition. Those Of this frame Of mind, /
# Of a philosophio turn, become athe-
ISIS. < IF they we're not
bold enough for this they tarn bigots,
and think the world is only fit to be !
burned, and look to the day Of Judge |
men. as the grand jubilee Of the uni
verse, and upon al people who cannot
manage to walk along their narrow
mountain trail to Heaven as heritics
Ia conclusion, Dr.. McKaig said; You
will not think it strange, TRUST, when |
I tell you think there viii be q good |
deal Of fun, laughing. and merriment
in Heaven, and whsn re come togeth-
er in social clusters, and talk over cur
earth-exPeriences, how re will smile at
the grim phantoms with which we peo-
pied our future.