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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: these blowing golden ashes led. There he would find gold--pure
gold--wonderful fortune to bring back to his poor people to build
a church for them, and a city.
"Padre Juan took the flowers and left his home, promising to
return, and he traveled northward over the hot and dusty desert,
through the mountain passes, to a new country where fierce and
warlike Indians menaced his life. He was gentle and good, and of
a persuasive speech. Moreover, he was young and handsome of
person. The Indians were Apaches, and among them he became a
missionary, while always he was searching for the flowers of
gold. He heard of gold lying in pebbles upon the mountain
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