GOLD DUST | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 29, 1870

GOLD DUST.

In the United States Mint at Philadelphia, when the visitor reaches the gold-working room, the guide tells him that the singular floor is a network of wooden bars to catch all the falling particles of the precious metal. When the day’s labor is done, the floor, which is in sections or parts, is removed, and the gold dust is swept up, to be melted and coined. About $30,000 annually are saved in this way.

Life’s highest improvements and success in this respect, like the sweeping of the gold-room, depend on the ‘spare moments’—the careful use of the fragments. No worker for time and eternity ever reached high success without this wise economy, in which Christ gave us, by precept and example, the perfect illustration.

Said Gen. Mitchell to an army officer who apologized for a little delay:—“Only a few moments; I have been in the habit of calculating the value of a thousandth part of a second.”

In wars, spiritual and temporal, in life and death, the golden sands of time decide great issues; they will swell the songs of Heaven with grateful thanksgiving, and the lamentations of the lost with unavailing remorse.—Congregationalist.