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Show MODERN SERMON ON MOUNT Sermons on the Mount are still a much cherished custom in various Swiss Alpine districts and the lovely love-ly Gastern valley above Kandersteg in the Barnese Oberland Is one of them. Here, every year, on the first Sunday in August, divine church service Is held in the outdoors. The people meet on a pasture near Scl-den Scl-den and the pastor of Kandergrund preaches the sermon. The custom dates back to the earliest ear-liest days In which the secluded vailey was inhabited throughout the year. Before the ski was known winter was a period of rigid seclusion, seclu-sion, and only late In spring did the pastor of the lower region find bis way up to the highlands. At each yearly service the number of the congregation and a brief summary sum-mary of the events of the year are recorded In a huge Bible, which was presented to the Inhabitants ' of the Gastern valley by the Berneiw. The Bible is kept in the dwelling of the oldest inhabitant |