MARAH ELLIS RYAN,
in For the Soul of Rafael.
The missions should be thought of today as they were at their best, when, after thirty years of struggle and hardship, they had attained the height of their usefulness, which was followed by thirty years of increase and prosperity, material as well as spiritual—the proud outcome of so humble a beginning—before their final passing away.
CHARLES FRANKLIN CARTER,
in The Missions of Nueva California.
JUNE 7.
Already the Emperor has given to us many fine paintings, vestments and a chime of sweetest bells. How we long to hear them calling out over the sea of vast silence, turning the white quiet into coral hues of deeper thrill! The church bells singing to the people of Al-lak-shak, recall the wandering Padres' labors among your thousands here in California. Those who cannot understand the great words of the teachers may look upon the beauteous pictures of the Madonna and the Child; all can understand that love.
MRS. A.S.C. FORBES,
in Mission Tales in the Days of the Dons.
JUNE 8.