Isaiah 46:6 - "Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!"

Nehemiah 3:8 - "Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmith, repaired ..."

Gold! How we love it and dream about it, even though as currency it is no longer in use. But the glamour of it remains. A great many people still spend their lives searching for the "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!" We can share a vicarious thrill with Schliemann as he unearthed the gold burial mask that he felt belonged to Agamemmonn. We have shuddered at the stories in our history books that told of the atrocities committed by the Spaniards as they hunted in South and Central America for El Dorado, "the gilded one." Some years ago, …