[Gutenberg 27852] • Gold Dust / A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life

Undated; Miniature at 3.4 x 2.7 x 0.6 inches (8.6 x 6.9 x 1.5 cm) / 32mo; 240 pp. Green cloth over blindstamped boards, spine decoration appears gilt.

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 "Faillettes 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 these 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....