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ground tn the same place. The remenbrance 
foheruf least it should perish, we haue anven 
hereunto the herp wards: This holy gift to the 
God, &c. ag hefore. 
The above is of interest, for there is no 
doubt that some learned alchymist had pre- 
pared this tincture for the benefit of man- 
kind, and that with it the Philosopher’s Stone 
might easily have been evolved ; but, alas! 
the pots were dashed into pieces, and it is 
not given to us to revel in eternal youth. 
But failing to transmute the baser metals 
into gold,—in spite of all my repeated 
experiments and wearied watchings,—I ami 
fain to take the precious metal, pure as 
Dame Nature gives it us from Mother Earth ; 
truly in all ages great and marvellous 
things have been done with it. If we go back 
to the earliest ages of which we have historic 
data, gold seems to have been an important 
factor in daily life. Inthe old Jewish books 
it is mentioned as being most plentiful. In 
