Home Missionary, The (May 1887-April 1888) . d came into view. The occupants ofthe front pew were inclined to stretch their necks and lean back a little,and even after this effort some of them must have died without thesight. That was indeed a lofty watch-tower on a towering hill, but Ihave recently been more highly exalted. Imagine yourself seated at the door of a log-cabin. Within you seea comfortable, well-arranged and neatly furnished room, with otherrooms adjacent; turning to the outward view you find that the cabin islocated en the very steep side of a very high mountain, among othercabi
Home Missionary, The (May 1887-April 1888) . d came into view. The occupants ofthe front pew were inclined to stretch their necks and lean back a little,and even after this effort some of them must have died without thesight. That was indeed a lofty watch-tower on a towering hill, but Ihave recently been more highly exalted. Imagine yourself seated at the door of a log-cabin. Within you seea comfortable, well-arranged and neatly furnished room, with otherrooms adjacent; turning to the outward view you find that the cabin islocated en the very steep side of a very high mountain, among othercabins of a like kind. Just below you is a narrow mountain road, uponwhich teams csn pass only at certain points. This road winds aroundthe hill. You look down upon a team passing at this moment. Below 8 THE HOME MISSIONARY. May, the road, the hill is as stesp as above it. A stone the size of your headset rolling from the road would most likely not stop until it had reachedthe valley 1,500 feet below. And yet 500 feet from this road are located. ML lliiiilSSsii ^K-- mmmmpmmmm the steam mill and tramway belonging to the mines. The most valuablemine is the Iron Mask, located a little to our right. Still beyond isthe Ben Butler, also a valuable one. In the narrow bottom of thisvalley you see the railroad. The ore is brought out of the hills by railand dumped a thousand feet below into cars placed to receive it. Aquarter of a mile to the right of where you are seated is a small table-land and on this is located a village of a few hundred people. It is anew town named for the good man at whose cabin you are stopping. Over beyond the deep valley before you is a range of mountains lift-ing its lofty peaks, mantled with snow, into the very clouds. Beyondand above these is the Mount of the Holy Cross towering its erminedshoulders to an altitude of 14,176 feet above the sea, and some 3,000feet above where you are seated, for you are at an altitude of about11,000 feet. It is a buena vista —
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