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Rh waters:"—the tumultuous murmurs of the people are at once hushed: and the hostile spirit with its menacing array of the weapons of death, gives place to the pleasing spectacle of harmony, fraternity, peace, and their ever-attendant blessings. In this limited view of wisdom's operations, all are ready to acknowledge its paramount value and excellency. But the Holy Scriptures speak of, and the text alludes to, a wisdom of a much higher order still. Job, in a figurative style common among the orientals, inquires where man's highest wisdom is to be found: and having searched in vain through every department of nature, he at length arrived at the true and only fountain. "''But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not in me. It cannot be gotten''