Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-03-30
The Mother Of cities.

brated at that time will transpire in the
ancient city of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
which will then reach the age Of third
of millennium, being three hundred
and thirty.three years old at that time,
and the oldest city established by Eu-
ropeans in the United States, founded
by the Spanish in 1850. Another ac
count makes the date of settlement
1889.
Now that the railway connects Santa
Fe with the East and West, and with a
large part of Mexico, it is thought to
be fitting time to celebrate birthday
of the city.
On the recurrence Of this anniversary
it is proposed to gather the people to-
gether of all nationalities in the vast
empire beyond the Mississippi, aud on
the lofty heights of Santa Fe, 1000 feet
above the Gulf OF Mexico, bring to-
gether the hearts. the hopes and the
products Of hand and brain OF the peo-
pie.
1t will be love.feast of mankind,
ornamented with specimens of the
worlds industry in the days Of Colum.
bus, Cortez and Pizzarro, and with the
products of the latest triumphs of hu-
man skill in the present age. In this the
progress Of the nation will be most clear
ly illustrated for more than three cen.
turtles.
Cortez, Pizzarro and Columbus aban-
doned the New World and went home
for personal reasons and never returned,
while the uncomfortable Fathers re-
mained and held the land which Span
ish valor captured, and from the Halls
Of Montezuma carried their faith to
Santa Fe, and linked it to the name of
the town forever.
Later their followers planted Chris
tianity in Arizona and lined the Coast
Of California with Mission churches, now
in their second centuries.
1t is most fit and proper that the good
city of Los Angeles should be well rep
in this great anniversary, to
participate in the interesting services of
that occasion and carry words of cheer
and greeting to this midway reunion of
our people that shall make prominent
chapter in American history. For this
mission and office we respectfully sug-
gest the name of
HON. YGyAcIo sEPULvEDA,
Of Los Angeles. as the delegate from
this city to the Santa Fe Anniversary.
He is o descendant of the race that estab.
lished that ancient city. The Francis
can Fathers who planted the capital of
Mexico, through their later followers
planted the settlement of Los Angeles,
and representative of their race and
faith should represent the Pacific Coast
in the forthcoming event at Santa Fe.
The managers Of the celebration at
Santa Fe have, with rare good judge
ment, chosen the finest pulpit orator in
the Nation to deliver the Grafton on
that occasion,
sALTER sToIRs, D. D., IL. D.
Doctor Storrs is, without doubt, the
best historian in the land. His men,
Dry is retentive and alert, and responds
to the requirements Of the moment with
precision and completeness. As lin
yuist he is master Of dozen languages,
ancient and modern. As an orator, he
mas penetrating, metallic voice, that
dies like anarrow to the remotest bound
Of his audience, while the man behind
the voice, erect, stately, commanding in
person, affectionate in sympathy with
the good, the just, and the sorrowful,
the esteem of all who listen
to his manly, selfpoised, lofty, pure
md beautiful thoughts. By his su.
preme earnestness he strikes through
The understanding to the heart and con-
.rols the will of his hearers. No audi
snce-room is too large for his hearers,
Ind the wise, the learned and the gifted,
,steem it luxury to listen to his,
aultless rhetoric and lofty and classic
thoughts.
History repeats itself in the person Of
.he orator chosen for Santa Fe. The
IONS of Levi in the Hebrew church were
III trained for the ministry. Dean
Hooks father was q Dean, Dean Stan.
ey's father was Bishop, Archbishop
Whateley's father was a clergyman, and
Dr.. Storr's fathsr, grandfather and
great grandfather were all clergymen of
ARE eminence and purity of life
md filled Puritan pulpit for
100 years without scandal and without
-eproach. Such spectacle of family
in the pulpit is unparalleled
N history.
The Doctor has now occupied the pull
pit of the Church Of the Pilgrims, ON
the corner of Henry and Remsen streets,
N. Y, for thirty.six years,
beloved by all who know him of every
,hurch and religious creed, Roman Cath.
olic, Hebrew or Protestant. Bigotry
has no lodging place in his mind, and
\ broad charity that embraces the whole
human race dwells in his heart. A Pu-
ritan in name and broad philanthopist
at heart, with profound regard for the
religious convictions of Others, he is the
man Of all others to address the nation
,lities assembled at old Santa Fe. So
broad, generous, noble and magnanimous
are his principles that
CARDINAL NEWMAN,
The illustrious convert from Anglicism
to Roman Catholicism, wrote him, few
years since, to thank him for the kind
in which he spoke of
the followers Of st. Peter, and
the justice in which he always
treated its members and priests. After
speaking of the Doctors continued sue
cess and the controversies in other
Protestant societies, the great Cardinal
as a brother, says, do you
wonder that so many like me have
taken refuge in Catholicism for rest from
sectariau strifef'