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Title: Gold Dust
A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life

Author: E. L. E. B.

Editor: Charlotte M. Yonge

Release Date: January 20, 2009 [EBook #27852]

Language: English

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*GOLD DUST*

A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life

TRANSLATED AND ABRIDGED FROM THE FRENCH

BY E. L. E. B.

EDITED BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

_Printed in the United States of America_

_To_

_E. B. H._

_This little book is most lovingly dedicated_

PREFACE

This little book is a translation from a collection of devotional thoughts
published in France under the title of "Paillettes d'Or." It is
necessarily a selection, since the gold dust which suits French readers
requires a fresh sifting for the English; but the value of most of the
thoughts seems to me well to deserve the term of gold. There are many who
will much enjoy having this little collection on their table, so as to be
able to take it up and dwell upon some one of its grains at leisure times
throughout the day's business.

C. M. YONGE.

Feb. 12, 1880.

INTRODUCTION

In the south of France, during the summer, little children and old and
infirm poor who are incapable of hard work, in order to earn a livelihood,
employ themselves in searching the beds of dried up rivers for "Paillettes
d'Or," or golden dust, which sparkles in the sun, and which the water
carries away as it flows. What is done by these poor people and little
children for the gold dust GOD has sown in those obscure rivers, we would
do with those counsels and teachings which GOD has sown almost everywhere,
which sparkle, enlighten, and inspire for a moment, then disappear,
leaving but regret that the thought did not occur to collect and treasure
them.