The Newtown bee., 1897-05-28
The Home Circle. Two Educations, Head and
 Heart.

A SERMON BY REV ROBERT CARTER, PAS
 TOR OF THE CoNGREGATIONALC CHURCH
 WARRINGTON.
 Prov. 2; 9. 10. "Then shalt thou understand every good path when wisdom entereth into thlne heart"
 It's a splendid thing to be wise man. Nobody wants to be fool. We even ob- feet to being called that. In order to prevent such a catastrophe, l mean the catastrophe of being fool, not of being called one-we spend good part of our life going to school, reading books, and thinking out lifes problems. It IS such a good thing to be wise; we struggle and labor to attain it. Then lest the la- Dor and struggle be in vain, we must be clearly assured that we know what wis dom Is. If a man started out and wanted to go to Boston, got on train, took a sleeper, and walked up in the morning at Pittsburg, he would be certain that there was something wrong, he might not be sure what happened but he would be sure something had happened consider ably different from what he had expected; even so if a man starts out after wisdom, and at the end of years finds that he has mad plenty of instruction, plenty of edu- cation, but that he is wanting in wis dom; he lives and acts most foolishly, then that man can be just as sure that he has made some grievous mistake. He was not careful enough when he started out, or else was not careful enough along the way. l have known a man most learned, a master in his special field of knowledge, who hadn't sense enough to keep sober; we could not deny his learn ing, we didn't want to, we valued 1t, but we never thought of calling him wise man. There have been doctors who knew all the peculiar character of cer- tain drugs, could go into the most mi mute account of their nature, their effect, and their qualities, who yet came to be slaves to the use of such drugs, they were learned you see In the use of such drugs, but not wise in the use of them. There have been farmers who knew well enough when 1t was time to plough, who yet did not plant or did not plough they were instructed sufficiently, and yet were not wise. Now 1t Is with this idea that we take up this text: "when wisdom en- tereth into thine heart"that is the pith of 1t.
 WISDOM IS OF TWO KINDS,
 or rather it has two points in it's prog ress there Is the wisdom of the head and there Is the wisdom of the heart. The wisdom of the head makes man learned but it does not make him wise. When the things which we know with the mind enter in and rule the impulses, the life, the heart, then we have begun to attain wisdom. When the great King Solomon made that famous prayer for wisdom which we have been taught ever since we were children, he prayed that the Lord might give him an "understand- ing heart;n it was the right prayer; it was not enough that he have an under standing mind, but that he have heart wise to be ruled by the enlightenment of .his mind alas, in his life he forgot hIs prayer, and while he sought and at- tained the wisdom of the head, he seems to have wholly forgotten to let it sink into his life, and become wisdom of the obedient heart.
 Let this point be made very manifest, and emphasized very earnestly. Wis., dom, true wisdom is of the heart as well as of the head. Knowledge does not be- come wisdom until 1t goes deeper and touches the heart. This should be em- phasIzed because 1t is all too commonly neglected. People are too often satisfied with knowing thing with the head, and forget that the point of the matter Is to have It sink into the heart and rule the life. Why even in business and worldly relationships, there Ia such a thing as beIng too smart; there is the cultivation of the head, and failure of the heart. There Is sharpness of intel- lect which If man have he Is not called