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R l S SERRA E R RA CROSS CROSSMOUNT MOUNT RUBI R U B I Do DeUX 1 CALF CALI ORN fORN F o RN IA fA 0 i I 1 J By Eleanor Raeburn AWN YX Caster Laster dawn awn on ou Mount f 1 p II It u ubI b 1 d do o u x t the he heI I matchless sunrise a 1 r panorama of California Call CaB fornia tornia 3 Up from the val cal j i 1 I e y of fragrant orange or b g roc e past i IT blooming gardens 1 through the quiet I t avenues n of the thc 7 J sleeping city of Riverside lined wi with th magn magnolia o ha eucalyptus s palm and graceful pepper trees we t wethe the pilgrims men pilgrims men nn and women known it and nd unknown young youn and ol old urged old urged b by byn y yIL n IL common Impulse were hastening at Easter da daybreak break to reach the summit of that isolated granite hill hili crowned on r its topmost pinnacle with a n tall memorial memo r rial vial cross Every Californian Cali Corn inn knows 5 the thc history of time the struggle endured for the time sake of that cross in a an nn n alien land by bythe I the pioneer hero whom it commemorates c Padre founder of oC the theold theold k old Franciscan missions that lie Hc between the Sierras and the thc sea t n i We Ye have ha been making that ascent for brotherhood u peace and prayer every Easter Enster since 1000 when was ryas inaugurated 1 at nt the suggestion es on of the l the tha interesting sunrise ceremony 7 which has bas be become ome an nu established community custom In lu 1013 tIlls this s mountain cross attracted a throng throne of assembled to hear bear the Rev lev Henry van Dyke now Ambassador Ambassador Am- Am to Holland 1 r read ad his poem God Cod of the Open Air with an especial insertion inser inser- Ion tion appropriate to Easter and a year t ago 1914 1014 the thc pilgrimage numbered not less than which will be bc vastly in increased In- In 4 t. t creased this year Marcella Craft a n aa a Urine prime donna from Riverside re- re recently re rc- i Gently concluded conclude a n five sears sears' years contract at nt atthe atthe the Royal al Opera in Munich will l laud nd her er glorious voice to the splendors ors of this L Easter Easier on the heights height ruwin dru a to it r r many maD tourist tour r f Visualize the scene A At t turn of r c 1 the as ascent one pauses to contemplate ta the unrivalled all d picture The evergreen Santa jAna iAna Valley flooded nil all ni night ht with moon- moon ray silver is now rapidly transmuted b by y M T J oJ 3 i 7 1 t 7 n l S SERRA E R RA CROSS RUBI R U B I Do DeUX ORN fORN o RN IA fA 0 ri e Jr r. r I j f J rf gala I 1 lr r i r rJ J i Jy r a f r r r. r r r rr J r J J I r. r IJ J J ft r 1 I r r Jar P rr r J i r r M r i itt tt Ai 4 i r J. 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M r Y r r r r T f. f st F i LOUIS UIS RUBIDOUX rf i 4 y t peculiarly peculiar fitted him bim fur for the lime hazardous ha enterprise He HI was unanimously chosen r 4 4 Y f tr tf nu and undertook the time tt work url with joy boy and und v rt assurance for his great zeal cal to engage rt Q rol rC f 1 in missi missionary b labors ors in the lie wilderness J t 1 n d rpt JY- JY r EI L LEI what had hael him sum Mexico S fe a was brought to iJ wS r from hom Spain Bom Hom n a his Jus priestly priest I education el uca tion a at t the tile en cathedral of L L THE the bre breaking kin day into gold on the snow now snowcapped snowcapped p c. capped Sierra Madre peaks Darkly purple stretch the Jc lomas of the range and yonder onder wrapped in opalescent mist the tue tiui sinister t l' l outline o of San Jacinto supposed by bj superstitious Indians Indians In In- dinna to shelter the tuc CM vii evil sp spirit Tau- Tau while serene in their mysterious majesty appear the two great peaks San Sau Bernardino and San Gorgonio Lon Long shafts of the thc speeding s sun penetrate th theft the left eft of the Cajou Cajon Pass ga gateway t to the desert leaving lel golden splinters on ou the valleys alleys of Santa Ana Ann and San Gabriel an and Cucamonga marvellous Cucamonga-marvellous marvellous mountain mountain- with Old Baldy at nt its back lightly caroms the rosy radiance to the Easter watchers on Rubidoux and still further beyond toward Santa Sunta Monica onica and the thc Western sea With slow blow 0 stateliness through h the tho mist the hills become silhouetted against the manzanita shadows of or the canyons the cross grows luminous In the tuc miracle of the Easter J sunrise and the triumphant trumpet tones of The Holy City announce announce an nn- that tb the da day h has s come m 1 I t I ASS 55 ON RU IDOUX The scene itself shorn of these sp spectacular spectacular spec spec- features is nn an inspiration it is hs nature in her most gracious mood her most lenient moment All around is the glory 1101 of oi the tho springtime time and spring in beautiful Hi Riverside in the heart of the orange belt with it its and orchards and olive e groves grO its pomegranates ates and aud plum trees it its rose ruse gardens its lush green n fields fields- of or alfalfa cannot be surpassed the world over Viewed Yie from that height t irresistibly ones one's sense of tl the c present nt becomes blended with visions of or orthe the past vast and the whole development of California resolves resol itself into a 11 mental motion picture where three figures s standout standout stand standout out chronologically upon the screen screen screen- The Man of the Missions 1 t the Man Ian of the th Mount lount and the thelan Man lan of or the tuc Inn wherefore wherefore wherefore where where- fore the event asi aside e from rom its religious ious association with the day dad and the thc hour assumes the thc value of a historical pageant Apropos many persons who see ho tho pageant drama of The Mission Play Ilay sv w John Steven r M given o dl daily Uy J. J in u a specially built theatre near the ol old San Sail Gabriel Mission liss on of Los Angeles are deeply deeply- impressed cd by the loading leading character charac charac- ter of Father Serra and aud wonder wander why thc they have never heard about him before but hut this Panama Exposition year jear is a 11 good time timo to read tip up One must look backward a good bit it for Cor the thc facts in ill his history When the Spanish Crown Issued the unexplained fiat expelling Il all Jesuits of them from fiora e cr every ery province PlO in Mexico 1 in iu 1 t t the lac Dominicans were or ordered ered to replace them in Lower or Baja California where the Jesuits had hud successfully esta established missions and tho the 1 were appointed to undertake un un- the untried work of ChristianIzing Christian Christian- Izing the Indian tri tribes cs of Upper or Alta California by br the tho establishment of new missions missions' Among the Franciscans available lo for this great and md heroic labor was Fray pronounced o cr O er Serra whose successful labors in Sierra Gor Gorda a dud d other remote Mexican l mi missions lead had LOUIS UIS RUBIDOUX peculiarly peculiar fitted him bim fur for the lime hazardous ha enterprise He HI was unanimously chosen nu and undertook the time tt work url with joy boy and und assurance for his great zeal cal to engage in missi missionary b labors ors in the lie wilderness was what had hael brought him sum to Mexico from hom Spain Bom Hom n a his Jus priestly priest I education el uca tion a at t the tile en cathedral of Palma had made malle him widely famous as asa asa asa a pulpit orator but ut he lie cared not for Ids 11 1 I. I 11 1 t tl r tit of honors 0 Carla he tv e ebrown blown brown robe lobe of his order older cinc cinctured with knott knotted rope ropi the rule of this sandaled monk permitted him no other protection from the 11 arrows of his enemies sa save sa e only his cross crow Bible and leather cape and f fatigue could not daunt him o A stern stein ascetic his Lis Franciscan vows of poverty po chastity ch and o obedience were scarcely severe cro enough lh to S1 sati satisfy fy his own self punishing nature but lt he possessed cs tho the spirit nn amid power of a a great reat ol organizer the a ability to control men b. by leadership the golden gifts of oratory and pe personal onal lUa magnetism and the supreme faith to belic believe be- be lic lie e that lint his efforts would be c dS rewarded How lIow richly the they were time the picturesque ruins rums of mis mission ou buildings that dot the Kings King's Kin s 's Highway vay 11 El m Camino Real Hell like knots in a n ri ribbon bon from San Diego to San Francisco Fraucisco tell with peculiar eloquence although their glory 1 0 rJ has departed and many of r them k have e been entirely obliterated obliterate by earthquake earth earth- quake and the despoilment that followed secularization Don Jose Jos Vi General of Mexico C O tl g a Hue fine lc pf lh the Spanish Sla Bh conquistador conquista or was to be he Padre Serras Serra's coa coadjutor in the development of the Upper California scheme as fiS a n military and missionary venture but ut on Serras Serra's shoulders devolved its final realization r mis lis sis events turned out The orders of Galvez were Occupy and fortify San Diego Dieto and Monterey for God and the King Kins of Spain and forthwith four expeditions ex ex- expeditions were started out two b by land and two by hy sea seat financed finance by hy the famous Pious Fund an nn en endowment o ment from irom munificent individuals and religious societies societies so so- quite independent of the royal treasury Two sl ships ps sent out by by- from La Ln Paz were to await the land expedition under Serra and Governor Go de w whose hose arrival there on July 1 l 1700 is now proclaimed as fiS the birthday of California You shall hear a great deal cal calof of that date in iu this year of celebration T Let ot it it it- lio be romr nili r that thIt father r Serra Sf u was a n man of sir fifty years of a age e when he arrived cd at San Diego that July dayto day clay dayto clayto to undertake the tuc perils s of his mission but he feared cured nothing All the world knows the stor story of their di discouragements Portola returning from his fruitless overland o coast trip to locate Monterey accor according in to Cabrillos Cabrillo's ron wrong chart had bad stumbled lcd on the ma magnificent harbor of ofSan ofSan San Froll Francisco and returning to San SanDigo Diego Digo hind had found Serra and his colony starving lie demanded that they to Mexico Ic Co while still able to travel tra Sena Serra with sublime faith that aid would come come bl begged cd for 01 but one more day dar and watched the sea through anxious ejes eyes from frolO Presidio io II Hill ill with devout out prayers prayer It came a came a sail at suu sundown o n the relief relic ship sent ent out 0 by Calves Galvez that rescued San SanDie Die Diego and ultimately California for fur her greater destiny All that we know of Califor its ila its magical mission days ar nH lo 1 un d l 1 1 W n lieu lICU more than LUiU t n mss reclaimed to useful es lives through the activities of the Franciscan padres its era cia of gold old Its cattle period aud and now it its days of golden fruit epitomized epitomized in her expositions in t the e world wOld has happened within one hundred finc anti and forty- forty six years and anel to Father Seira Serra more than to an any other human agency isn is n attributable tn the marvellous development dC t toC of oC that Western estern coast Think of the labor libor and patience entailed in instructing instructing instruct instruct- iD ing those fa savage sa 3 C neophytes in Christianity Christian Christian- r ity and the wholesome arts of c civilized ed life not life not the Fenimore Cooper Jn Indians ians of Nely York or the Northwest Territory Terri Terri- tory tOlY nor time the the Western s 's 1 variety that t chased l the buffalo and lassoed the bear but hut the degraded e rn d digger Indians of the lowest mental type I IThe The great work undertaken b by Spain was w continued continue by J Mexico and so went on the development do of tho the missions until twenty one hud had been n established al although although al- al thlu though h Padre Serra Serm in his sixteen years sears of labor lubor there I lived to tee see ec ow nine mue o of them started stalled At Monterey his great dream deL was to L be realized for lih th A establishment of the second mission at at that point began tLc the baptism of the heathen converts convert increasing rapidly The Indians were learning how to how to be bc neat nent and clean clenn how to speak Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish and bow how to sin siD sing and play on musical instruments As herdsmen artisans artisan basket weavers wearers leather workers brick makers tillers of oC the soil and muleteers they the proved their Value many times over or They became moral anti and industrious Until secularization in 10 1833 33 the m mis mt missions Ions were ecclesiastically governed by bya byn a n padre presidente presidente ente of whom Father bather Serra was the first Palou suc succeeded dod him bim for tor a n brief period and then followed Lasuen who carried forward Serras Serra's schemes to brilliant success The Pious Fund allotted a a. capital of for fot each nc new mi wion mi ion which invested at l five firo To cd annual Income of per pel cent pro i provided an WO The missions traded in hides tal tal- tal- tal low otter skins wine and nd produce in exchange o for needed articles from foreign for for- ci eign u markets Naturally when spoliation spoliation tion came tIle the Indians claimed that they whose labor had nd built up the missions were entitled to their revenue Instead Instead Instead In In- stead they received cd nothing and lens lel than nothing Their choicest lands were wrested from frow them by the gringos which left them in sadder plight than before the padres came eaDle It was to right their wrongs that Helen Hunt Jackson wrote Ramona and A UA A Century of ot Dishonor Considering his personal hardships itis It Itis itis is remarkable that Padre Serra Serm lived to nen nearly ry se seventy one years for ho he slept nha always s 's on eu an bends bench ate the tho plainest of food foo drank no wine and subjected subjected sub suh himself at tin tithes times cs to heroic tortures Xo No Franciscan rides when he can walk but Lut his llis lon long trips afoot with an nn Injured leg were enough to have worn him out long before When he be died the Indians Indiana were inconsolable His Ills robe was divided among them for keepsakes and his bis tunic male was taS ma made e into scapulars sc those who ho guarded his bo body y appropriated locks leeks of his llis hair yet jet beloved and illustrious as ashe ashe ashe he was his bis burial burin I place was quite quito forgotten forgotten for for- gotten otten for more than a century When Wien time tile question finally arose Where is tl the e resting place of or California's greatest hero time the Rev Hc Angel D D. D Casanova then pastor of San Carlos Mission where he bl lies buried and which had fallen into decay after secularization ordered a public exhumation Notice printed inthe in inthe inthe the San Francisco papers brought together together to to- gether on a certain date a n large assemblage assemblage assem assem- blage aE in is whose presence the tho Jo three redwood red red- w wood coffins were opened revealing the remains of Father Crespi who died first then |