LEARNING.
Reading edition
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.—Proverbs, i. 5.
Cease to do evil; Learn to do well.—Isaiah, i. 16, 17.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning.—Romans, xv. 4.
What is the pomp of learning? the parade Of letters and of tongues? Even as the mists Of the grey morn before the rising sun, That pass away and perish. Earthly things Are but the transient pageants of an hour; And earthly pride is like the passing flower That springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. H. K. White.
Of the deep learning of the schools of yore The reverend pastor hath a golden stock; Yet with a vain display of useless lore, Or sapless doctrine never will he mock The better cravings of his simple flock; But faithfully their humble shepherd guides Where streams eternal gush from Calvary’s rock; For well he knows not learning’s purest tides Can quench the immortal thirst that in the soul abides. Mrs. Little.
Learning is good, but holiness is better: Learning with holiness combined—what then? Aye, that is best of all; th’ instructed mind, Which ignorance nor prejudice can fetter, That looks through nature with a searching ken, And knows the history of human kind, And hath a store of treasures at command; If such can meekly bend, and humbly wait Beside the footstool of the Infinite, Eager to bask in beams of saving grace, Learning and goodness then go hand in hand, And happy is the people and the state, That hath such learned men to shed the light Of their example round their early resting-place. Egone.