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their children to such an education. It will not 

 do to mince words where there is question of 

 society, civilization and immortal souls. 



No, glaciers and snow are not the end of all. 

 There is more than the symbolic mountains saw, 

 who like countless of our vain philosophers, poets, 

 scientists and romancers, frivolously guess at the 

 riddle of life, and then close their eyes and 

 dream their dreams, after the conceits of their 

 own hearts. 



There is a lowly mount, too humble to have 

 been even considered by the novelist s Jungfrau 

 and dark Finsteraarhorn. Yet it alone was 

 privileged to witness an event more thrilling and 

 important than any these supermountains ever 

 dreamed of in their superior wisdom. It is the 

 mount of Calvary with its three uplifted crosses. 

 In that scene they might have read the answer to 

 all their riddles of the universe, all the problems 

 of human life, its struggles, happiness, and seem 

 ing derelictions. 



What indeed were man upon this earth, except 

 for the love of the eternal God and the Cross of 

 Golgotha. It is here that life acquires its true 

 meaning and suffering all its worth. It is here 

 that the massive mountains dwindle into nothing, 

 compared with the preciousness of a single human 

 soul, purchased at the price of the Death of a God- 

 Man. It is here that all their centuried years are 



