124 The Seven Years of Seeking

Laudetur ‘fesus Christus,
May Christ ‘esus be praised;

and the brother of the cave, having responded,

In secula seculorum,

World without end,

cried mightily to the brother of the palms,
“‘ May Christ Jesus be praised !”” — and thus
from the heights in the heavens to the shore
of the sea. So, too, when the last light of
the setting sun burned out on the western
billows.

Thus was the reign of the spirit of evil
abolished, and the mountain consecrated to
the praise of Him who made the hills and
the isles of the sea.

In the strong light of the morning sun the
shadow of that mountain is cast over the
great sea of ocean further than a swift ship
may sail with a fair wind in two days and
two nights; and a man placed on the peak
shall see that shadow suddenly rise up from
the sea and stand over against the mountain,
dark and menaceful, like the lost soul of a
mountain bearing testimony against its body
before the judgment-seat of God; and this
is a very awful sight.