| Show MODERN SERMON ON MOUNT sermons on the mount are still a much cherished custom in various swiss alpine districts and the lovely gasteen gastern valley talley above kandersteg Kander steg in the barnese oberland la Is one of them here every year on the first sunday in august divine church service la Is held la in the outdoors the people meet on a pasture near selden and the pastor of kandergrund Kander grund preaches the sermon the custom dates back to the earliest days in which the secluded valley was inhabited throughout the year before the ski ekl was kno known wn winter was a period of rigid seclusion and only late in spring did the pastor of the lower region find his way up to the highlands at each yearly service the number of the congregation and a brier brief summary of t the he events of the year are recorded in a huge bible which wa was pr presented resented to the inhabitants of tb the castern gastern valley by the bernese the bible Is kept in the dwelling atthe oldest inhabitant |
