How much better is it
to get wisdom than gold!
(Alexander Smellie, "The Hour of Silence" 1899)
get wisdom than gold!"
Proverbs 16:16
How much better--
for wisdom buys what gold
cannot procure. Wisdom--
the mind which hearkens to GOD
and the heart which yields to HIM--brings me . . .
HIS divine favor,
HIS forgiving grace,
HIS power to shield me,
HIS guidance to lead me,
HIS knowledge to inspire me,
HIS glory to crown me!
Wisdom secures for me a wealth
beside which the greatest treasures
of the world are but dross!
Wisdom penetrates where gold
cannot go. It carries pardon and peace
into the deepest recesses of my spirit--
while gold can do nothing but deck
my body and my home.
It gives me the strongest and
the tenderest influence over others--
while gold cannot dispel their griefs
and answer their doubts.
It lifts me into communion
with the Most HIGH GOD--
and gold is powerless to lead me
there, to that glorious country
far beyond the stars!
Wisdom endures when gold
is gone. This world's riches take
to themselves wings and flee away--
almost every day furnishes me
with a new instance of how
fleeting and perishable they are.
But wisdom makes mine
the possessions which never
perish, which are never withdrawn,
which through life and death
and eternity, are certain
to gladden my soul!
so get wisdom!" Proverbs 4:7
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