Section 97. THE GLACIERS AT SUNSET. II.
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You[1] did not lose your idea of the dazzling, spiritual whiteness of the snow; yet you seemed to see it through a rosy veil, the sharp edges of the glaciers and the hollows between the peaks reflecting wavering tints of lilac and purple. The effect[2] was solemn and spiritual above everything I have ever seen. These[3] words, which[4] had often been in my mind through the day, and[5] which occurred more often than any others while I was travelling through the Alps, came into my mind with a pomp and magnificence of meaning unknown before:—“For by (durch) Him were all things created that are in[6] heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether[7] they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers[8]: all things were created by Him and for Him: and He is before[9] all things, and by Him all things consist[10] (Col. i. 16, 17).”—Mrs. Beecher Stowe.