The California padres and their missions . d once more, Padre, will yousay how the Blessed Virgin came and helped Pasquala, too?Be sure I will say so, my daughter, said the Father. Seeinghow rapidly the remaining sands were running out, the Fatheragain gave her absolution and pronounced over her the lastblessing; and a few hours later Pa»qualas short and troubledlife was ended. The burial was a solemn one. There was no precedent forthe burying of an Indian within the actual precincts of one ofthe Missions: but as the Father stood by the dead childsbody the thought came to him that the Mission
The California padres and their missions . d once more, Padre, will yousay how the Blessed Virgin came and helped Pasquala, too?Be sure I will say so, my daughter, said the Father. Seeinghow rapidly the remaining sands were running out, the Fatheragain gave her absolution and pronounced over her the lastblessing; and a few hours later Pa»qualas short and troubledlife was ended. The burial was a solemn one. There was no precedent forthe burying of an Indian within the actual precincts of one ofthe Missions: but as the Father stood by the dead childsbody the thought came to him that the Mission which owedto her its preservation might well afford her a knew what happiness she would have had at the thought;and when he asked himself whether the Church would ap-prove, the words came to his mind, Greater love hath noman than this, and they seemed a sufficient answer to thesorrowing priest. And so it comes that Pasquala, the Indianchild, rests from her long journey within the Mission thatshe died to save. LA PURISIMA. La Purisima: Its Mission and Its Rebellion O OMPOC is a place of modest size and hid so snugly away-^^ in its secluded valley that I doubt if many readers of thepresent chronicle have even so much as heard of it: or, if theyhave, know how to pronounce its aboriginal-looking may, therefore, be excused for stating that its last syllablerhymes with joke. In the world of commerce, however,Lompoc is a place to be seriously reckoned with. It lies in theheart of as fertile a httle valley as the sun often shines upon;and impartially, like the same sun, which shines for all sortsof businesses, it caters to mans aesthetic aspirations by rais-ing sweet-pea seeds and to his fleshly tastes by turning outonions and potatoes by the carload. It is also strong on the chief gem of Lompocs agricultural crown is mustardseed. Lompoquians will tell you they raise all the mustardseed for the whole United States, and I believe statistics goa conside
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