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Show Statue Held Symbol of Unity of Two People Senior Daniel V. del Burgo, eon-sol eon-sol general of Chile In this country, coun-try, has given a most Interesting description of "The Christ of the ' Andes," the inspiring sculpture which stands at a mountainous elevation el-evation o 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) on the Chilean-Argentine fron-tier, fron-tier, says the newspaper La Verdad, of Caracas, Venezuela. Senior del Burgo says of this appealing figure that the suggestion for its establishment estab-lishment came from seeing the Statue ot Liberty in New York harbor. It is seven meters high (23 feet) and weighs three tons. It can be seen for many kilometers on all the routes connecting the two republics of Argentina and Chile and is held In veneration by the peoples of both nations because be-cause It was erected, In 1902, to seal and commemorate the peaceful peace-ful settlement of the final dispute between the two great South American Amer-ican republics. It wa3 the women of these two countries who collected collect-ed most of the funds necessary to defray the cost o the statue and Its transportation and erection and whose influence was most exerted ex-erted on the respective governments govern-ments to provide a site and perpetual perpet-ual maintenance for the monument "The Christ of the Andes" stands In a lonely and desolate spot, much the same, no doubt, as the wilderness wilder-ness in which "The Man of Sorrows" Sor-rows" spent 40 days of his life In prayer and fasting. Yet the statue is not really lonely nor deserted, but visited constantly by thousands in their journeys to and fro, who call it, too, "The Christ of Amity," for the sta.tue Is the symbol of the bonds of friendship which henceforth hence-forth and forever knit these two peoples together in a Christian fellowship. |