Wisdom and Contentment from 100 years ago

Writing over 100 years ago, Robert William Dale has a take on wisdom and contentment which I found to be fairly radical in our contemporary world.  Here are his words,

"Wisdom, if we had it, would transfigure life.  You have an unreasonable employer; wisdom would teach you to regard his unreasonableness as a divinely appointed discipline to train you to good temper.  A man has greatly wronged you; wisdom would teach you to regard the wrong as giving you the opportunity of fulfilling our Lord's precept: "Bless them that curse you.  Pray for them that despitefully use you."  Your occupation is dreary, monotonous, badly paid; wisdom will teach you to do your work as unto the Lord and not unto men, and this will bring down into your work-room light from heaven.  You lose money that you have worked hard for; wisdom will teach you that this loss will help you not to put your trust in uncertain riches."  

--"The Gospel of Suffering" from The Epistle of James and other Discourses, pg. 12-13.

How would such an idea of wisdom, combined with contentment, all of life's situations and the sovereignty of God change the way we lived?