South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-16
NJ CUAIG SPEAKS
ON PRIDE OF MAN
Says 1t is the UnSatiSfying
Thing After Which Men Run
or That Which WithhOldS
Truth.

ITuln.
One OF the most striking sermons
delivered by Dr. McCuaig in south
Bend was delivered last night in the
First Presbyterian church on the sub
jet, Danger and Deliverance". TAX
ing as his text, Thou shalt hide them
in the secret Of Thy presence from the
pride of man. Pisa. 3l-20.
Or. McCuaig said.
"Our text does not literally inter-
pref the Psalmist. The suggestions in
regard TO pride In man, and in re-
gard TO a secret relating to access
Ia God, are but subtly expressed in
the original Their lurking presence,
however, makes them the more inn
pressive, which probably accounts for
this form of words with which we
have become familiar.
In the translation as we have it,,
you observe two things.-First, some
thing that presents a menace-the
pride OF man, second, a hiding place
from this mcnace-'the secret OF
Gods presence
This expression. the pride Of man
is in itself peculiar, and in its posi-
ton striking Whatever il involves, it
Is some great evil from which escape
is desirable; and no ordinary danger
either when such a refuge is neces-
sary for safety as the very presence
of God.
1T is apparent that the great fear
Of the Psalmist OF this moving force
Of evil is of its working in the breasts
of other men-his enemies; prompt
ing them even to seek his life. But
III IL be such an evil thing in the
-f e of
worse if it be haTbOred in ones own
breast If il be a thing actually shut
mp within a man, as II were2 Not
fire raging outside, from which hurt
may come. but a fire eating and de-
stroying within?
And, while in the Manifestations of
this evil may in many cases be bad
such as 'cOntemptuOus speech and
lying lips and plotting against life
you viii lose in the search if YOU go
out to find an essentially bad thing
as constituting the pride of man.
He Couldn't Come.
Last spring j went out into the
garden to call my little boy. L saw
him in the distance, and called But
ne shouted back j can't come. L
can't come, pap. He was chasing
a butterfly. Last winter, ore night,
/ called him from upstairs; but he
answered me, What is it, papa; /
am busy with my lesson.
The butter fly that last spring kept
my old sweetheart from answer
ing my call was the pride of life to
him then; and the lesson of last win
ter that engrOssed his attention, and
kept him from obedience, was the
new pride of life.
4 sat with a gentleman on the YER
anda of his beautiful summer home. |
He had been an invalid for five years. !
unable to walk a step He told me of |
how, five years ago his one ambition |
had been TO become millionaire |
AS L bade him good bye, ne told me !
with tears in his eyes, that his great
hope was that. before the fall should !
come. he might be able TO walk to
the gate.
And such is the pride of man, -
the play of today. the lesson of to-
morrow, the consuming ambition, the
new adventure. the seasons novelty, |
81 passing thought the plotting Of lust,
whatever holds back from the high /
CT calls.
Sometimes it is a fixed thing-a
habit Of life, the round of duties, the
rush of business. L have learned |
much at funerals said a lady to me
a short time ago. Then she told me
of a woman. a good housewife, who
took great pride in her home. She
had baked the bread for the family
from the time she was married /
thursday was always bake day. one
Wednesday she was taken down sick +
Against the advice of the doctor she
got up ON Thursday TO bake the /
bread And we ate. the bread she
baked that Thursday said the lady. I
after her funeral on Monday
And even the doing OF benevol- |
ences and the preaching of the I
preacher may paFtake of the same /
quality. No less than the far-visioned /
Samuel Rutherford had 10 learn by I
the sufferings of persecution, and the /
hardships of a prison that
Zen preaching was not Christ,
For In my sea-bOat prison
My Lord and L held tryst.'
Pride OF Man"
$50 this is, the pride of man
the unsatisfying anything. after !.
which men run, the bubble, whatever /
1T may be, that may be punctured by /
death; the thing in infinite variety 1
that holds back the substance of /
truth; the lure of any kind that keeps
from God.
And 10 such an extent are we. most /
Of us. set on these things and in the
Strip of this evil. that mailing TO a /
cross would hardly bring us 90 a right /
mind; but we would have 10 have our /