The conquest of the continent . raise Him, and magnify Him for ever. VI PLANTING THE STANDAED ON THESHORES OF THE PACIFIC IT is said in California that if by any chanceColumbns could have made his landfall onthe Pacific rather than the Atlantic coast,Boston would not yet have been discovered; butit would seem that this statement gives too littleBoston and Credit to the pioneer spirit of theCalifornia American people, and possibly a trifle too much to the climate of California. Atany rate, even Californians will doubtless bethankful that Boston thus providentially es-caped oblivion. It is inter
The conquest of the continent . raise Him, and magnify Him for ever. VI PLANTING THE STANDAED ON THESHORES OF THE PACIFIC IT is said in California that if by any chanceColumbns could have made his landfall onthe Pacific rather than the Atlantic coast,Boston would not yet have been discovered; butit would seem that this statement gives too littleBoston and Credit to the pioneer spirit of theCalifornia American people, and possibly a trifle too much to the climate of California. Atany rate, even Californians will doubtless bethankful that Boston thus providentially es-caped oblivion. It is interesting in this connection to readwhat Boston once thought of the Pacific Marcus Whitman had opened a trail toOregon and John C. Fremont had pushedthrough the Salt Lake Valley to California, itwas proposed in the United States Congress toestablish a mail route from Independence, Mis-souri, to the mouth of the Columbia Webster, in a speech before the Senate,expressed the popular estimate: ^^What do we 142. On the Shores of the Pacific 148 want/ he said, **with this vast worthless area,this region of savages and wild beasts, of des-erts, of whirling sands and whirlwinds of dust,of cactus and prairie dogs 1 To what use couldwe ever hope to put these great deserts, orthose endless mountain ranges, impenetrable,and covered to their very base with eternalsnow! What can we ever hope to do with thewestern coast of 8,000 miles, rock-bound, cheer-less, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? , I will never vote one cent from thepublic treasury to place the Pacific Coast oneinch nearer to Boston than it now is.* It is easy to smile at such an opinion ex-pressed by such a man, but perhaps some ofthe judgments which we are forming to-daywill within a generation need quite as thorougha revision. Though Columbus did not, yet in a sense theChurch did make her landfall on the PacificAn Ancient Coast. The first Christian service^^^ held there—by Master Fletcher,
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