The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1891-04-15

audience. lie was gratltied, and said
he knew our pastor, Rev. Dr. Hoge.
Next morning we crossed the Rio
Grande to the Mexican city of Qua
rez (Paso del Norte), visited the old
cathedral 600 years old) with its
quantity carved wooden ceilings.
There is statue in the public
square to the memory of their Ex-
President Quarez, but all the sur
roundlngs are essentially Mexican,
most of the buildings being con-
structed of "adobe"-a squalid and
untldy people, not yet much adj
vanced in civilization.
Leaving Ell Paso one traverses
barren wastes in Texas, Colorado,
and Arizona, though, we understand,
there are many elegant ranches away
from the railroad routes. Emerg-
ing from all this dreariness of sand
which seems to permeate every
where, even entering through the
double windows and doors of the
vestlbule train, we are charmed bv
4 vision of sudden loveliness and
fertility. We have reached Cal
ltornia, and our eyes, for the first
time, have gazed upon the Pacific
/ ocean We are delighted with
California, so far, having been now
nearly a week at this elegant sea-
side resort, Coronado Beach. lust
opposite San Diego, which one easily
reaches by ferry and dummy" in
I tins immense hotel, covering an
area of more than seven and a half
acres, and built in oriental magniff-
cence and grandeur
As to the climate of California. it
is simply superb, there is nothing
comparable to it, so far as our ex-
perlences have been i'm varied lands:
unless we may except our soiourn
I'm Egypt. We have only so far, of
course, visited its most southern
portion, but we hear glowing ac-
counts of Los Angeles, Pasadena.
and Santa Barbara, etc, etc
At Riverside, Cal, our first intro
.uctiOn to this beautiful sunny land.
we found a perfect paradise; it
seemed almost incOngruous not to
have called it Garden of Eden ="
riverside atfording no conception
5f its gOrgeOusness and luXuriance.
lraversing its spacious avenues, and
there are many (the Magnolia ave
nue. being twelve miles in length).
all bOrdered on either side with
stately palms, aloes and pepper
trees, we pass, in rapid succession,
grove after grove of oranges and le-
mons, then olive groves and fig trees.
and vineyards Just budding forth
their first green leaves. Surrounding
the town and plainly in view,
through the purity of the atmos-
phere, the peaks of the San Bernar-
dino range, rise i'm majestic height.
twelve miles away, and on old
Baldy' and several other SUBMITS
/ were caps of snow which, our driver
told us, often remained there all the
( year round. Think of all this ori-
entail and tropical fruitage, and then
the cool breezes from the snow-clad
/ hills. How gratefully the traveller
recognizes the contrast from the
sandy, arid wastes of the Colorado
desert, which we had travcrscd the
day before or the forlorn portions
Of Texas, two days previously We
were most anxious when we neared
Yuma, fearing we would encounter
some difficulty, after reading i'm the
Richmond papers that the whole
Town had been submerged. and the
Southern Pacific railroad under wa
ter for many miles, but we came ON.
all safely, though slowly and eau
tiously. The only real objects of
terror were the Wild, half-savagc
Indians, with faces painted hidcous-
w. and long matted black hair.
dressed i'm blankets or half tattcrod
garments, who congregated about
our train TO beg for money or trv TO
sell their wares. il is we'll there
are various Emissions scattered
about these waste places, but there
Us still immense work for the Pro-
testants TO do to evangelist these
Indians
san DWeo. March 10Th.
This glorious Easter morn. with
cut cloud iu the heavens; truly
the "bridal of earth and sky" finds
us at the doors of the First Presbv-
tsrian church. whore kind friends
relativesof DR.. HogeJ meet us with
welcome iu their faces, and wr sit
together to worship iu their beauti- .
iul sanctuary, and listen 90 one Of.
tine finest disoourses wo have ever
heard ON the Resurrection Sand .