Show CHURCHES PROPOSE TOURISTS TOURISTS' SHRINE Protestant Episcopalians About San Francisco Cooperate Cooperate Cooperate Co Co- Co- Co operate in Plan Special Dispatch SAN FRANCISCO Dec 25 To To To San Francisco shortly is to fall the honor honorof of the first shrine ever consecrated by the the Protestant Protestant Episcopal church in I America Fired to renew zeal by the nationwide nationwide nation nation- nation nation-e wide campaign which just now is going forward within the church and with thought to to the thousands of or tourists who mho flock each year ear to San Francisco communicants communicants' of the scores of parishes around around- San Francisco bay have urged upon lit Rt Rev ne neV William V Ford Nichols D. D D ll bishop of the diocese of California California Cali tali- fornia the appropriateness of and need for a shrine for the many wayfaring Episcopalians The rhe Cross a magnificent cent pile that tops one of the most picturesque que hills in famous Golden Gate park parle and to which annually the Episcopalians Episcopalians Episcopalians Epis Epis- of or the bay cities led by their bishop the clergy and their choirs all aU fully tully vested make malie a pilgrimage has been een selected as the shrine and in a avery avery very cry short time It will 1 bo be duly consecrated consecrated con con- and proclaimed The Cross was erected in 1894 1594 to commemorate the first re religious religious re- re I service er e held in the English English English Eng Eng- lish tongue on the shores of or the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- ocean It seems that the worthy old buccaneer bU caneer Sir Francis Drake back pa-I pa in the sixteenth century saved himself himself him him- self and his more or less gallant crew from a a North Pacific storm by putting putting putting put put- ting into into thes helter belter of what now is known as Drakes Drake's bay oay near nedr San Francisco Fran Fran- risen cisco So mightily had they been buffeted buffeted huf- huf feted and so dire had been heen their case that their piratical spirit was no end diluted So much so that the moment their boat touched the shingle say the chronicles s they all 1111 fell to prayers and the good Chaplain Fletcher who was was was' of that ungodly crew saw to it I that the prayers were done tone by the book and in the forms laid down by the Church of England I So out of the pra prayer er of a frightened frIghtened frightened fright frIght- ened 01 old 1 pirate Is s at last to come a shrine shrine not not in commemoration of him but of or the prayer he said sad and the good I Saxon Anglo-Saxon he said it in |