in Western Switzerland, specially in the Bernese Jura. Inaugurated in the Catholic universities of Germany, it was transplanted for a complete and more vigorous growth into the soil of Geneva, and there taking on a logical, consistent, and organized form, it seemed fitted for the wide propagation and success that marked the great Reformation of the sixteenth century, to which, in its early stages, it showed curious points of undesigned coincidence. The Swiss serve God and serve Liberty; two facts which go far to solve all the phenomena of their remarkable history. They hold with Plutarch that “a city might more easily be founded without territory than a state without belief in God.” It may be, as Professor Tyndall contends, that there is “morality in the oxygen of the mountains.” Man feels himself reduced to nonentity under the stupendous architecture of these elevated regions which carries his thoughts up to the Creator. A cultivated and pious mind may find itself stayed and soothed and carried upward, at some evening hour, by those great symbols of a duration without an end to a throne above the sky; and this impression may be deepened until the outward glory reproduces itself in the inward, and causes it to cry out: “Great Hierarch! Tell thou the silent sky, And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.” The lives of the Swiss are in continual struggle with the elements, the visible power of the Deity; their sober habits, simple, natural, imaginative, all predispose them to believe; and the Gospel easily obtained dominion over their faith and feelings. The sublime works of nature are equally calculated to arouse sentiments of patriotism; they are capable of a companionship with man, full of expression of inexplicable affinities and delicacies of intercourse. No race of men can dwell in Switzerland, amidst its mountains, its precipices, its rocks, glaciers, avalanches, and torrents, without being strong, brave, and resolute. Just as we recognize an elevated region by its growth of peculiar timber, whether stunted or lofty, alike in their power of resisting the tempest, and by its hardy plants characterized by their intense tenacity of life, just so a mountainous country is indicated by a courageous, athletic, close-knit population of liberty-loving, patriotic men.