. To California and back;. e families of Spanish soldiers and churches are now, for the most part, only de-cayed legacies and fragmentary reminders of a timewhose like the world will never know again. Saveonly three cr four, preserved by reverent hands,where modern worshipers, denationalized and clad inAmerican dress, still kneel and recite their orisons,the venerable ruins are forsaken by all except thetourist and the antiquarian, and their bells are silentforever. One can not but feel the pity of it, for inthe history of zealous servants of the cross there ishardly a more notew
. To California and back;. e families of Spanish soldiers and churches are now, for the most part, only de-cayed legacies and fragmentary reminders of a timewhose like the world will never know again. Saveonly three cr four, preserved by reverent hands,where modern worshipers, denationalized and clad inAmerican dress, still kneel and recite their orisons,the venerable ruins are forsaken by all except thetourist and the antiquarian, and their bells are silentforever. One can not but feel the pity of it, for inthe history of zealous servants of the cross there ishardly a more noteworthy name than that of JuniperoSerra, and in the annals of their heroic endeavorthere is no more signal instance of absolute fail-ure than his who founded the California missions,aside from the perpetuation of his saintly nameThey accomplished nothing, so far as can now beseen. The descendants of their converts, what fewhave survived contact with the Anglo-Saxon, haveno discoverable worth, and, together with the greater75.
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