OCTOBER 12.
Like most of the early cities of the coast, Los Angeles owes its origin to the proselyting enthusiasm of the Spanish priesthood. The Mission of San Gabriel had been in existence ten years, and it had gathered several thousand Indians under its guardianship when it was proposed to establish a pueblo in that vicinity in order that a temporal development might proceed together with the spiritual. Had there been no mission at San Gabriel to hold the savages in check by the force of a religious awe, and to lead them to industrial pursuits, there probably would have been no founding of a city on the lands above the Los Angeles river—at least not until some date half a century later.
C.D. WILLARD,
in History of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
MY CREED.
I believe the best I can think, being fully persuaded that if this be not true, it is because the truth transcends my present power of thought.
BENJAMIN FAY MILLS.
OCTOBER 13.