. The missions of California, with sketches of the lives of St. Francis and Junipero Serra . food and protection. The mission church is constructed of stones and cement, andin the upper portions of brick. It is 140 feet long by 26 feet wide,and 30 feet high. The walls are live feet thick. On the altar areseveral of the old statues, and some quaint old pictures adorn thewalls. In the baptistry can be seen an old font of hammeredcopper, probably made at San Gabriel or San Fernando. In theyear 1886 needed repairs were made and the Mission is now oneof the best preserved. In the little town of San
. The missions of California, with sketches of the lives of St. Francis and Junipero Serra . food and protection. The mission church is constructed of stones and cement, andin the upper portions of brick. It is 140 feet long by 26 feet wide,and 30 feet high. The walls are live feet thick. On the altar areseveral of the old statues, and some quaint old pictures adorn thewalls. In the baptistry can be seen an old font of hammeredcopper, probably made at San Gabriel or San Fernando. In theyear 1886 needed repairs were made and the Mission is now oneof the best preserved. In the little town of San Gabriel a building was erected a fewyears ago for the presentation of The Mission Play, written byJohn Stevens McGroarty. This play ran there for two years,depicting the first tragic days of San Diego with their sublimefaith, the glory of the Mission at Carmel in its prime, and thepathetic ending of their glory at Mission San Juan play is very beautiful and also very educational. San Gabriel was the angel announcing to Mar\ the mysteryof the incarnation. SAN LUIS SAN LUIS OBISPOThe first roof-tiles were made at this Mission. SAN LUIS OBISPO. On March 20, 1772, Fr. Crespi and Lieut. Fages, with twelvesoldiers, a muleteer, and a Lower California Indian, set out fromthe Presidio of San Carlos de Monterey, determined to surveythe port of San Francisco, for the purpose of finding a site for theMission which was to be erected there. At the close of the firstday they came to and forded, with some difficulty, what is nowthe Salinas River. The second evening found them camped onthe river San Benito. Then for ten or twelve days they journeyedon to and around the Bay of San Francisco, and finally returnedto Monterey. Meanwhile the ]\Iissions of San Gabriel and San Diego hadinformed Fr. Serra that they were in distress for want of food,incidental to the failure of arrival in the suppl} ships, and in-creasing numbers of converts. Pack mules laden with ilour andesco
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