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 "Gee, I hadn't!" cried Peanut "Tramping this way, you lose track of time."

"Neither had I," said the rest.

"Well, it is," Mr. Rogers laughed. "And this is our way of going to church. You remember what the Bible says about the mountains? 'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh even from the Lord.' You see, long, long ago, men felt about the mountains as we do now—that there was something big and eternal about them; and just as the Pemigewassett Indians thought that the Great Spirit lived on Moosilauke, and perhaps worshipped the Great Stone Face here, so the men in Bible days thought of the hills as the symbol of God's dwelling place. Then later, in our own time, we find Ernest in the story refusing to judge men by worldly standards, but judging them by whether they resemble the Great Stone Face—that is, judging them by whether they were calm, and sweet, and good, like the mountains, and the forests, and the still places.

"As Lou says, Ernest was a still man—that is, he wasn't bustling around making war or making money. When you come to think about it, the still men are the greatest. The greatest man who ever lived was Jesus Christ and He changed all history by the Sermon on the Mount; not by making wars like Napoleon, but by new ideas which He had