Gold Dust

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 24, 1861

Gold Dust.—It is a mistake to suppose the miners and the mints have all the gold. You have some of infinitely greater value than the richest mines can yield—the seconds and the minutes, the gold-dust of time; specks and particles of time which we are so apt to waste and throw away. God does not give it to us in gold bars, a day, a month, a year long; nobody can be trusted with so much time all at once; but God wisely deals it out in seconds and minutes, so that we can make the most of it. If you are robbed of one, or lose one, the loss is comparatively small. It can not, to be sure, ever be made up; the whole world can not make up for a minute lost; but if it teach us to be thoughtful and careful for the rest, we may become rich with golden years of a useful and happy life.