SERMON VII.
price in hand of the foolish to get wisdom.
"Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?"
Prov. xvii. 16.
Wisdom is a gem of inestimable value. Nothing so strongly marks the superiority of one class of men above another, than their pre-eminence in wisdom. For the various arts of civilized life, the innumerable comforts and conveniences we enjoy, to which the native children of the forest are entire strangers; we are indebted to the operations of superior wisdom. It guides the mariner across the pathless waste of waters, and leads him back over mountain billows safe to
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