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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... IN AND OUT OF THE OLD MISSIONS CHAPTER I THE FOUNDING OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS PERHAPS nowhere in the history of the world is there to be found a clearer example of the nothingness of Time and Place when man is absent than is presented in the history of California. It was the same California that it is now long centuries before Cabrillo first discovered it. It was still the same in the ages that it remained practically undisturbed after Cabrillo, until the time of Serra. And that was little over a century and a quarter ago. But see the change in that hundred and thirty years! The seed of man's enterprise once sown, how its fruits sprang forth! Not the wildest conceptions of the Mission founders could have foreseen the results of their California enterprises. To see the land that they found in the possession of thousands of rude savages converted in one short century into the home of tens of thousands of happy, contented, progressive people would have been a wild vision indeed. God surely does work mysteriously, marvellously, His wonders to perform, and nothing is more wonderful than the rapid settlement of California with the choicest elements of America's Eastern civilization. It seems almost as if the coming of Serra and his coadjutors -- the best the Spaniards had to offer of earnestness, power, ability, and sympathetic brotherhood -- was l prophetic of what the future had in store for California. America was to give of its best, -- Fast, North, South, in its Starr King, Joseph and John LeConte, Fremont, and a host of others for its physical, mental, and spiritual development. The East has not yet taken the full measure of the West, -- not even as well as did Serra, Crespf, Palou, and Lasuen. The spirit of those men is still in the air, and the res
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In and Out of the Old Missions of California; An Historical and Pictorial Account of the Franciscan Missions
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