THE UPLIFT 29 



And the result is a most stupendous 

 thing, namely, the looming of the moun- 

 tains. 



At this point it is a relief to quote from 

 John C. Van Dyke. In his recent book 

 on The Mountain (Scribners, April, 

 1916), he says: "Moreover, there is still 

 another quality that comes with the 

 mighty uplift — the quality of looming in 

 the peak. At times the whole peak seems 

 to ride the blue sky, and comes looming 

 forward and upward above us." 



The Jtjngfrau 



For years I had, and in large measure, 

 valued the uplift of the mountains, but 

 its profound meaning, the astounding 

 spiritual poetry of it all, was not revealed 

 to me until, one fortunate day, I saw the 

 Jungfrau, after a long rain, emerge. 



John Ruskin, in Modern Painters, says, 

 "It would be very grand if one ever saw 

 a great mountain peak breaking through 

 the domed shoulders of a true cumulus; 



