Editorial: Missionary Mountain Peaks and Glaciers

I was really in the catbird's seat last summer, cruising through the majestic Canadian Rockies in a tour bus, admiring the scenery and thanking God for it. Suddenly around the bend we confronted a mountain peak named for the first missionary to Alberta, Robert Rundle.

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