Gospel Messenger, The (1909) . in the peaceful valleys of theLahn and the Eder. These two rivers rise at a heightof over 2,000 feet, just outside the boundary ofWittgenstein; only thirty minutes apart. But the one,—the Lahn,—flows into the Rhine, while the Ederempties into the WeserT Here, then, is the watershedof these two great river systems. The mountains arecalled Rothaar Gebirgc In the northern part ofWittgenstein they are even higher than at the sourcesof the Eder and the Lahn. Ostenberg is 2 616 feethigh. It is difficult to describe to Americans the peculiar THE GOSPEL MESSENGER—July 10
Gospel Messenger, The (1909) . in the peaceful valleys of theLahn and the Eder. These two rivers rise at a heightof over 2,000 feet, just outside the boundary ofWittgenstein; only thirty minutes apart. But the one,—the Lahn,—flows into the Rhine, while the Ederempties into the WeserT Here, then, is the watershedof these two great river systems. The mountains arecalled Rothaar Gebirgc In the northern part ofWittgenstein they are even higher than at the sourcesof the Eder and the Lahn. Ostenberg is 2 616 feethigh. It is difficult to describe to Americans the peculiar THE GOSPEL MESSENGER—July 10. 1909. 435 character of these mountains and valleys. The firstimpression they make is the feeling of seclusion. Themountains are all covered with forests—mostly offir trees,—but also, occasionally, of beech and are not primeval forests, for in Germany allforests are replanted as soon as cut down. The firtrees are grown in about forty-five years; then cutdown and replanted. The beech trees take from sixty-. A fine view of Schwarzenau. looking may be seen to the right. The deepIs where the new railroad enters the village. The parsonagein front is where the writerJune 1. entertained May 31 and valleys of the watershed. The great difficulty withthe man in the large city is that the world is too muchwith him. He cant believe that God really know-, andloves him among so many millions whom he seesdailv. But the lonely peasant in a mountain with God and his world, has a self-consciousnesswhich is impossible to the inhabitant of the am convinced that the geographic influence uponreligion,—its form and its depth,—is no insignificantfactor. Schwarzenau, now a Dorf of 560 inhabitants, themost beautiful village in the Eder Valley, lias notonly been the retreat for our early founders, but formany other religious fugitives, before ami after the massacre of the Huguenots onSt. Bartholomews night, many of t
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