8o Ellen Key of the cross as a symbol of nobly borne sorrow, and then sums up the impressions of the Play thus : * ' The Past as well as the Present conveys to us the assurance that the highest in every age is submerged uncomprehended by the majority. The life-renewing truth is always trampled under foot by the established order ... It is not by the cross that men have learned to live; but by the cross they have learned to suffer—and as long as living means SUFFERING for the majority, crosses are likely to remain on heights and in valleys." Various motives have led our steps to Ober- ammergau; love of travel, curiosity, and the desire, on the part of literary tourists, for something new wherewith to fill some columns in the papers. On the one hand cold feelings and pretty words, on the other hand the need of the devout childish soul for strength and solace in the struggle and want of earthly life. Between these two extremes we have Ellen Key's view of the scenes presented. From the Campanile of liberal thought she sounds her bells. They summon us to wor- ship before the crucifixion of the innocent, to abhorrence before the victory of unrighteous- ness. In religious ecstasy she kneels before the mystery of sacrifice.