THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL 



They, therefore, consecrate them- 

 selves not to the common dusty 

 roads of material comfort and 

 pleasure, but to the quest of the 

 ideal. 



It means oftentimes a loss of 

 comfort, it means poverty per- 

 chance, it may mean defeat, as 

 the world counts defeat, to follow 

 this trail of the ideal. But it is 

 the men who have lived such lives 

 who have moved the world, and 

 they have not been without their 

 reward beautiful flowers bloom 

 for them which the men on the 

 dusty road below know not of. 



I have found myself this sum- 

 mer often thinking of Jesus' say- 

 ing, "I am the way." What a 

 splendid trail of the ideal his life 

 has blazed across the mountains 

 of this life! What joy of the 

 mountaineer comes to those who 

 follow in that trail! 

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