'a teach us to number our of wisdom. Psalm 90.12 (R.¥.) days thathe may get us an heart If we read this psalm carefully edge of the weakness of our ive shall see that the psalmist, was nature, the treachery of our heart, moved to this prayer by consider-the value of sympathy, the joy of ing the frailty. and brevity the inexhaustible human life, How small a man neo of God, and so put. wit feels himself in a storm.at sea, or dom in our heart. Men study in the solitude of a desert, or on their day book at the end of the snowy, mountain peak! Yet it ear with their eye on investments "ig remarkable that when a man and the profit and loss account.
cls himself so small he - also But, the larger day. book is worth knows hhimsel? to be unspeakably' reading too. with its lessons that precious. The reason is, 1 think, have come through our labour, our Uhat though space may "seem. to temptations, our friend: Soyerwhelm him by its vastness he responsibilities and other still shas to of time. that lie open day by day. There! When a man are many days that we count said. that he blank because they are marred by Ris life in review, because the way routine, or interruptions or dis-cho-has spent lis time is a" very appointments, but from all. part of hi them we can win something of the "Bo, teach' real stuff of life. that' we may get us an heart of And this brings us to a, most important point. Ther is no veils aNd wispest, unfair advantage to those who "Sisfind three, stages of, thought! fare lifted by good fortune above the ruck of common days, who "behind this prayer. (1) True wi suit them to themselves with consists in the right manageeisuro and pleasure. It docs not fe.. (9) The right punish them with wisdom. Mr. *management, of life requires ladstono once said. "In almost Hight of the common day (8) The every one. of the big political Light of the common da} 2 only controversies of the last 60 years—kivon to the teachable heart Firat then, true wisdom is closeneevned with behaviour. classes, what the Jews these titled, classes, hi what the "Bible he wise men of the East were trologers: the, wise mon of Gresce ad' thei own type of wise mon, were philosophers. "But the Jews to Tam not one to tah Cie 18). "The law shall We, soo from a sentence in Jere: undervalue education, but mist beware lest we are hypnotizone jed.by: the- word.; The education hat dlogs.snot-ight. below. man's word from thi" opt Old. ib, the Eaissnteat ey Reo Seta os not mak for true isaiplinett; not -onty<hvie—brain; wore jRgb given' to the study of Tome it. "as.. with. the ud their. larger education can jonly: be given in the light of the Greeks, ie tha ddy, when the nieceasibies Trees etna cing seek #41146 calicut wil that-@ man Bas and. the ave of living: Their within, him, 4 knowledge was practical—savoir
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