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Updated: May 8, 2025
One can recognize them at once by their dingy white clothes, like grave-clothes men and women are garbed alike by their straw mushroom hats, by the strip of straw matting strapped across their shoulders, and by the long wooden staves which they carry and which will be stamped with the seal of the mountain-shrine when they have reached the summit.
"I have seen that it is possible for the stranger to pass through this great chapel, with its font of waters, and mountain pillars, and vaults of cloud, without being touched by one noble thought or stirred by any sacred passion; but for those who received from its waves the baptism of their youth, and learned beneath its rocks the fidelity of their manhood, and watched amidst its clouds the likeness of the dream of life, with the eyes of age, for these I will not believe that the mountain-shrine was built or the calm of its forest-shadows guarded by their God in vain."
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