Show MODERN SERMON ON MOUNT sermons on the mount are still a much cherished custom in various swiss alpine districts and the lovely gastern castern valley above kandersteg Kander Hander steg in the barnese oberland Obe 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 sel den and the pastor of kandergrund Kander hander grund preaches the sermon the custom dates back to the ear blest days in which the secluded valley was inhabited throughout the year before the ski was known winter was a period of rigid secle slon and only late in spring sprin 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 brief sum mary of the events of the year are recorded in a huge bible which was presented to the inhabitants of the castern valley by the bernese the bible Is kept in the dwelling of tbt oldest inhabitant |