Southern California; . them, showing between the green of the garden ororchard. Most of the missions were erected around a large rec-tangular court or quadrangle, the rooms being sur-rounded by a corridor supported by massive arches androofed with tiles. At one corner of the quadrangle stoodthe church, built with massive walls, five feet or morein thickness, and dimly lighted by square windows highup on the sides. The interior of these buildings is dark,gloomy and forbidding, but well calculated to inspirethe worshipers with awe. The interior decorations,although barbaric in feeling, are often
Southern California; . them, showing between the green of the garden ororchard. Most of the missions were erected around a large rec-tangular court or quadrangle, the rooms being sur-rounded by a corridor supported by massive arches androofed with tiles. At one corner of the quadrangle stoodthe church, built with massive walls, five feet or morein thickness, and dimly lighted by square windows highup on the sides. The interior of these buildings is dark,gloomy and forbidding, but well calculated to inspirethe worshipers with awe. The interior decorations,although barbaric in feeling, are often beautiful and softin color. Father Serra did not live to see the full realization of .!... his hopes and plans, but the seed had been sown ere hisdeath. Fifty years from the date of the establishmentof the first mission, a chain of twenty-one establish-ments dotted the coast valleys, each within an easy daysjourney of the next. There were on an average about athousand Indians living permanently at each mission,and many thousands of cattle, horses and sheep roamedover the intervening country. These Indians weredevout Catholics, conversing in the Spanish tongue, liv-ing under a strict ecclesiastical regime and carrying onfaithfully the manifold occupations imposed upon the very inception of the mission movement,however, it was intended that the Indians should become self-sustaiuing, aud, when finally converted and civil-ized, left to their own devices. With the growth ofpower and temporal possessions, the Franciscans becamemore worldly as a class. They did not wish to relinquishthe authority won at cost of so great labor, and subse-quent events proved that it would
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