Recollections of Pioneer Work in California (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... music. All true prayer consists of the outbreathings of the soul to God. And where the soul is mighty, and its emotions are mighty, and its desires and pleadings are mighty, none but those who hear the prayer can form any proper conception of it. When the Amen to this Thanksgiving prayer was uttered, there was such a wiping of tearful eyes as I have seldom seen in any worshiping assembly. CHAPTER XII. Los Angeles--The Nationalities--The Carko--Old Volunteer Treasurer--The Murderer--Frequent Killing--Santa Rosa--The Water Bucket--Children's Freaks In Church--John Treadwat--Rev. George Burrows, D. DRev. James Wylie--Healdsburg--Cyrus AlExander--Death Bed Scene--The Celebrity. Late in the Autumn of '54 I went to Los Angeles and gathered a congregation and preached to them one year. Our place of holding religious service was in the old adobe courthouse. Here we organized a Presbyterian Church of twelve members, except the ordination of the elders. I also secured, before leaving, a lot for a church edifice. At that time there were probably about five thousand inhabitants. Four-fifths of these were Spanish. Of the other thousand, probably one-half were Americans; the other half were English, Scotch, Irish, German, Dutch, Swiss, French, Italians, Swedes, Norwegians, Russians and Europeans generally. Los Angeles at this time, as to population, was a miniature of California. I do not suppose there is a country or nation in the civilized world that has not a representative in California. As to the buildings in Los Angeles, more than nine-tenths were adobe. Brick and frame structures were the exception and very rare. The mode of conveyance with the Spanish aristocracy, was the "carro." This consisted of a frame, like a platform, about five by twelve feet, set on a p...