WHAT THE MOUNTAINS SAW 279 



less than a pulse-beat of time, measured by that 

 day of eternity wherein the souls of the just are 

 destined to receive the endless reward for their 

 love of God and neighbor. So only can those 

 longings for happiness be satisfied which have not 

 been placed in vain within the breast of every man. 

 Here, then, musfbe sought the one great motive 

 that alone can save society, perfect civilization 

 and lead to lasting progress. 



T-he true evolution -of man, after the fulness 

 and perfection of the Divine design, can come in 

 no other way than that in which St. Paul brought 

 it to the world, through the preaching of the 

 Crucified. "The Cross wrought persuasion 

 through unlearned men," wrote St. John Chrysos- 

 tom, "yea, it persuaded even the whole world; and 

 not about common things, but concerning God and 

 true godliness and the Gospel way of life and the 

 future judgment. It turned all men, even the 

 very rustics and the utterly unlearned, into 

 philosophers. For the noble ideals which tax- 

 collector and fisherman were able by God's grace 

 to carry into effect, could not even be grasped by 

 philosophers, rhetoricians, rulers, not even by the 

 whole world with its myriad efforts. What then 

 did the Cross introduce? It taught the immor- 

 tality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, 

 the contempt of things present, the desire for 

 things future. It made men angels; and thus all 



