Christian Soul-Searching

Abstract

The road follows the contour of the wooded hill, makes a right turn, and then crossing the main gate barrier penetrates the park. At the top of the hill stands the vast and modern church with its round dome recognizable from miles and miles away; it is flanked at its left by a pleasant two-floor stone-built building sheltering the administration. On the right, the college with its large classrooms slopes backward to the foot of the hill where the tennis courts, basketball field, and the most sophisticated track-and-field college stadium in Lebanon stretch amid the forest and the scout-camping site encompassed within the walls of the Jesuit domain. For old-timers and alumni students as well as for newcomers, it is difficult to resist the indescribable poignant feeling that floats in the air and the woods and the playing courtyards and the classes of Notre-Dame de Jamhour.