Seeking for Gold | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 30.

Seeking for Gold.

The world does not call men fools who seek gold, even tho they do not get rich. The vast majority generally return as poor as before the seeking, often worn and weary, broken in spirit and health. Many lose life and reputation and character forever, and some reason. The Christian Advocate tells of the story of a man who discovered gold in digging a trench around his tent, in British Columbia, a hundred miles from Vancouver, just as he had given up a weary search. A week passed and he did not return. His employer went up the coast to look for him, and found him raving mad. The excitement of the find had turned his head, and he had eaten nothing for a week. The only words he could say were: “I have found it! I have found it!” The Lord tells us that when we seek for the wisdom and understanding of God as for “silver” and “hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God;” “then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.” Prov. 2:1-9. Here are treasures more precious, more sure, than gold; and he who finds them will never go mad or insane. These treasures have the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come.