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some of us will have to go to jail to do our best work。 

     Do   you   remember   that   one   musician   became   deaf   before   he   wrote 

music   the   world   will   always   hear�拭  �Do   you   remember   that   one   author 

became blind before writing ;Paradise Lost; the world will always read�拭�

     Do    you    remember      that   Saul   of  Tarsus    would     have   never    been 

remembered had he lived the life of luxury planned for him�拭�He had to be 

blinded before he could see the way to real success。 He had to be scourged 

and fettered to become the Apostle to the Gentiles。 He�察�too�察�had to be sent 

to prison to write his immortal messages to humanity。 What throne´rooms 

are some prisons� �And what prisons are some throne´rooms� �

     Do you not see all around you that success is ever the phoenix rising 

from the ashes of defeat�拭�

     Then�察    �children�察   �when     you    stand   in   the   row    of   graduates     on 

commencement   day   with   your   diplomas   in   your   hands�察  �and   when   your 

relatives and friends say�察 �Success to you� ─�I shall take your hand and say�察�

;Defeat to you� �And struggles to you� �And bumps to you� ─�

     For that is the only way to say�察 �Success to you� ─�



                               Go Up the Mountain 



     O   UNIVERSITY  OF   HARD   KNOCKS�察  �we   learn   to   love   you   more 

with each passing year。 We learn that you are cruel only to be kind。 We 



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learn that you are saving us from ourselves。 But O�察�how most of us must 

be bumped to see this� �

     I know no better way to close this lecture than to tell you of a great 

bump that struck me one morning in Los Angeles。 It seemed as tho twelve 

years of my life had dropped out of it�察�and had been lost。 

     Were     you   ever   bumped     so   hard   you   were    numb�拭    �I  was   numb。    I 

wondered why I was living。 I thought I had nothing more to live for。 When 

a dog is wounded he crawls away alone to lick his wounds。 I felt like the 

wounded dog。 I wanted to crawl away to lick my wounds。 

     That is why I climbed Mount Lowe that day。 I wanted to get alone。 



     It is a wonderful experience to climb Mount Lowe。 The tourists go up 

half a mile into Rubio Canyon�察�to the engineering miracle�察�the triangular 

car that hoists them out of the hungry chasm thirty´five hundred feet up 

the side of a granite cliff�察�to the top of Echo Mountain。 

     Here they find that Echo Mountain is but a shelf on the side of Mount 

Lowe。 Here they take an electric car that winds five miles on towards the 

sky。 There is hardly a straight rail in the track。 Every minute a new thrill�察�

and no two thrills alike。 Five miles of winding and squirming�察�twisting and 

ducking�察�dodging and summersaulting。 

     There   are   places   where   the   tourist   wants   to   grasp   his   seat   and   lift。 

There is a wooden shelf nailed to the side of the perpendicular rockwall 

where his life depends upon the honesty of the man who drove the nails。 

He may wonder if the man was working by the day or by the job� �He looks 

over the edge of the shelf downward�察�and then turns to the other side to 

look   at   the   face   of   the   cliff   they   are   hugging�察  �and   discovers   there   is   no 

place to resign� �

     The   car   is   five   thousand   feet   high   where   it   stops   on   that   last   shelf�察�

Alpine Tavern。 One cannot ride farther upward。 This is not the summit�察�but 

just where science surrenders。 There is a little trail that winds upward from 

Alpine     Tavern    to  the  summit。     It  is  three  miles   long   and   rises  eleven 

hundred feet。 



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     To go up that last eleven hundred feet and stand upon the flat rock at 

the summit of Mount Lowe is to get a picture so wonderful it cannot be 

described with this poor human vocabulary。 It must be lived。 On a pure�察�

clear day one looks down this sixty´one hundred feet�察�more than a mile�察�

into   the   orange   belt   of   Southern   California。   It   spreads   out   below   in   one 

great mosaic of turquoise and amber and emerald�察�where the miles seem 

like inches�察�and where his field´glass sweeps one panoramic picture of a 

hundred miles or more。 

     Just   below   is   Pasadena   and   Los   Angeles。   To   the   westward   perhaps 

forty miles is the blue stretch of the Pacific Ocean�察�on westward the faint 

outlines of Catalina Islands。 The ocean seems so close one could throw a 

pebble over into it。 How a mountain does reduce distances。 You throw the 

pebble and it falls upon your toes� �

     And Mount Lowe is but a shelf on the side of the higher Sierras。 The 

granite mountains rise higher to the northward�察�and to the east rises ;Old 

Baldy�察─�twelve thousand feet high and snow eternally on his head。 

     This is one of the workshops of the infinite� �



     All alone I scrambled up that three´mile trail to the summit。 All alone I 

stood     upon    the   flat  rock   at  the   summit     and   looked     down    into   the 

swimming   distances。   I   did   not   know   why   I   had   struggled   up   into   that 

mountain sanctuary�察�for I was not searching for sublimity。 I was searching 

for relief。 I was heartsick。 

     I saw clouds down in the valley below me。 I had never before looked 

down   upon   clouds。   I   thought   of   the   cloud   that   had   covered   me   in   the 

valley below�察�and dully watched the clouds spread wider and blacker。 

     Afterwhile the valley was all hidden by the clouds。 I knew rain must 

be falling down there。 The people must be saying�察 �The sun doesn't shine。 

The sky is all gone。; But I saw the truththe sun was shining。 The sky was 

in   place。   A   cloud   had   covered   down   over   that   first   mile。   The   sun   was 

shining upon me�察�the sky was all blue over me�察�and there were millions of 

miles of sunshine above me。 I could see all this because I had gone above 



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the valley。 I could see above the clouds。 

     A great light seemed to break over my stormswept soul。 I am under the 

clouds of trouble today�察�BUT THE SUN IS SHINING� �

     I must go on up the mountain to see it。 

     The years have been passing�察�the stormclouds have many times hidden 

my sun。 But I have always found the sun shining above them。 No matter 

how black and sunless today�察�when I have struggled on up the mountain 

path�察�I have gotten above the clouds and found the sun forever shining and 

God forever in His heavens。 

     Each day as I go up the mountain I get a larger vision。 The miles that 

seem so great down in the valley�察�seem so small as I look down upon them 

from higher up。 Each day as I look back I see more clearly the plan of a 

human      life。  The  rocks�察  �the  curves    and   the  struggles   fit  into  a  divine 

engineering plan to soften the steepness of the ascent。 The bumps are lifts。 

The things that seem so important down in the smudgy�察�stormswept valley�察�

seem so unimportant as we go higher up the mountain to more important 

things。 

     Today I look back to the bump that sent me up Mount Lowe。 I did not 

see   how   I   could   live   past   that   bump。   The   years   have   passed   and   I   now 

know it was one of the greatest blessings of my life。 It closed one gate�察�but 

it opened another gate to a better pathway up the mountain。 

     Late that day I was clambering down the side of Mount Lowe。 Down 

in   the  valley   below    me   I  saw   shadows。     Then   I  looked    over   into  the 

southwest and I could see the sun going down。 I could see him sink lower 

and lower until his red lips kissed the cheek of the Pacific。 The glory of 

the sunset filled sea and sky with flames of gold and fountains of rainbows。 

Such a sunset from the mountain´side is a promise of heaven。 

     The    shadows     of  sunset   widened     over   the  valley。  Presently   all   the 

valley  was   black   with   the   shadow。   It   was   night   down   there。 The   people 

were saying�察 �The sun doesn't shine。; But it was not night where I stood。 I 

was farther up the mountain。 I turned and looked up to the summit。 The 

beams of the setting sun were yet gilding Mount Lowe's summit。 It was 

night down in the valley�察�but it was day on the mountain top� �



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                                    Go on south� �



       That means�察�go on up� �

       Child of humanity�察�are you in the storm�拭�Go on upward。 Are you in 

the night�拭�Go on upward。 

       For the peace and the light are always above the storm and the night�察�

and always in our reach。 

       I am going on upward。 Take my hand and let us go together。 Mount 

Lowe     showed     the  way   that  dark   day。  There   I  heard   the  ;sermons     in 

stones。; 

       Some day my night will come。 It will spread over all this valley of 

material things where the storms have raged。 

       But I shall be on the mountain top。 I shall look down upon the night�察�

as I am learning to climb and look down upon the storms。 I shall be in the 

new day of the mountain´top�察�forever above the night。 

       I   shall   find   this   mountain´top   just   another   shelf   on   the   side   of   the 

Mountain of   Infinite   Unfolding。   I shall   have   risen   perhaps only  the   first 

mile。 I shall have millions of miles yet to rise。 

       This   will  be  another    Commencement         Day   and   Master's    Degree。 

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