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It was initially kept a secret. The government of Transvaal, formerly an independent state settled by the Boers, put out a gag order after J. H. Davis, an Englishman, sold the Transvaal Treasury 600 pounds of gold that was discovered near Krudgerdorp on the Witswatersrand reef. To keep the discovery of gold a secret, they ordered Davis out of the country. That was in 1852. But a year later, Jacob Marais, a South African, discovered gold on the banks of the Jukskei River. He too was ordered to keep his mouth shut. No one was to know about the gold, for history had recorded that gold had always caused a big stir with often uncontrollable results. But one Sunday in March of 1886, George Harrison, an Austrian gold miner, stumbled onto the Mother lode. He declared his claim with the then-government of the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR), but sold his claim for a measly 10 pounds because of pressure from the government and his own failure to see the significance of the find. Harrison had discovered the Witswatersrand main reef, the Mother Lode. The secret could no longer be kept and the Witswatersrand Gold Rush ultimately resulting in the establishment of Johannesburg and the gold mine that has produced 40 percent of the world’s gold in the last 100 years. As significant as the Witwatersrand main reef is to the gold industry, I have discovered a gold mine of far greater significance–a Mother lode of unlimited wealth. It’s been kept a secret. In fact, there has been a gag order put out about it. The devil doesn’t want the world to know about this gold mine. He has ordered those who know about it to keep quiet and others of us, like George Harrison, to underestimate its value. Many have spent years digging in the mine but have missed the wealth vein. Eureka, I have found it! Now you can find it.

Mother lode refers to a principal vein or zone of veins of gold or silver ore. When a Mother lode of gold or silver is discovered, an almost unlimited amount of potential material wealth is made available. In this book you will discover the Mother Lode of true wealth; it is the Sabbath. It is the mine of God where we excavate the ore of truth about wealth from the mind of God. With excitement and expectation our first parents watched the opening of the mine and the uncovering of the Mother Lode on the seventh day of creation week (see Genesis 2:1-3). Rabbi Abraham Heschell wrote, “…the seventh day is a mine where {S}pirit’s precious metal can be found…”¹ God took it upon Himself to invite Adam and Eve into the secrets of creation. He called them into Sabbath worship as a time of divine revelation. It was a day of disclosure about who and what God values. It was the beginning of God’s instruction on the meaning of true wealth. Amasa Walker, the eighteenth century economist, in his search for a definition of wealth, came to the conclusion that wealth is simply the allocation of value.² And at the beginning of creation God created the Mother Lode so that men could have a perpetual place to search out what He values most.