Our country in story . ast of St. Francis in the same year in whichthe Declaration of Independence was adopted. PadreSerra visited the mission a year later. Standing on thesouthern bank of our present Golden Gate, and gazingaway over the waters of the channel, he exclaimed fer-vently. Thanks be to God that now our Father St. Francishas reached the last limit of the California go farther, he must have boats. The most livelyimagination of the good Padre, however, could not havepictured that silent bay as it is today—the busy meeting-place of ships coming from all nations on the glob
Our country in story . ast of St. Francis in the same year in whichthe Declaration of Independence was adopted. PadreSerra visited the mission a year later. Standing on thesouthern bank of our present Golden Gate, and gazingaway over the waters of the channel, he exclaimed fer-vently. Thanks be to God that now our Father St. Francishas reached the last limit of the California go farther, he must have boats. The most livelyimagination of the good Padre, however, could not havepictured that silent bay as it is today—the busy meeting-place of ships coming from all nations on the globe. BELLS OF SAN GABRIEL MISSION THE GREAT SOUTHWEST 129 In the history of the mission of San Juan Capistrano,Padre Jose stands out an interesting figure. Havinglabored long and hard among his beloved Indians,this devoted Padre at length became feeble in body andmind. He spent much of his time wandering about thefields praying or explaining aloud some part of the Doc-trina. One day, while thus occupied, an angry steer. DISCOVERY OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY from a herd of cattle grazing at some distance, madestraight for the Padre, bellowing and pawing the groundas he came. Attracted by the call of the neophytes at worknear by, the Padre turned about and, seeing the fiercecreature, cried out, Begone, thou spirit of evil. Theanimal raised his head, looked wonderingly at the fearlessPadre for a moment, and then trotted away. The Indians,ascribing this victory of the simple Padre to his greatholiness, henceforth looked upon him as a saint. Santa Barbara, cradled as it is between the ocean andthe hills, has perhaps the most interesting history of all 130 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY the missions. In its gardens the hooded and sandal-footed sons of St. Francis still move about under the treesin prayer and study as they did over a hundred years as then, they courteously show the visitor to theancient chapel, the most substantial of all the missionchurches. This famous house of prayer is one
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