THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL 

 AND ITS MESSAGE 



IT has been my privilege during 

 the month of my summer vacation 

 for the last three years to be led 

 in paths paths which have been 

 to me paths of righteousness, of 

 joy, and of inspiration. Out here 

 in the West we call these paths 

 mountain trails. It is out of my 

 experience with these "paths of 

 righteousness" that I seek to bring 

 you the message of the mountain 

 trail. 



The trail is not the grandest 

 thing in the mountains it is 

 only a humble path. It is not the 

 most beautiful it is often ugly 

 and scarred, filled with dust and 

 stones. But it is one of the abso- 

 lutely necessary things, and one 

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