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Title: Californian trails, intimate guide to the old missions; the story of the California missions
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Hall, Trowbridge
Subjects: Spanish mission buildings -- California California -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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which hangs clear of the wall. Is palnfed on bothsides—the one side with a scene from the life of theVirgin, the other showing Satan roasting In the flamesof hell; offering, as it were, the choice of becoming asubject of the Holy Mother, or broiling on the gridironof his Satanic Majesty, and so realistically depicted thatthe issue is seldom In doubt. At the first movement of tne Mass, with the KyrieEleison, the neophyte orchestra, playing violin, flute,drum and cymbal, accompanies the singers. Stretchedacross the music racks are two huge leather-covered,iron-clasped hymn-books whose vellum leaves are limnedin a gigantic score, the notes in different colors to in-dicate the different parts. A choir master franticallytries to direct with a long pole closely resembling abilliard cue. And how the Indians love to sing. What-ever they may lack in melody, they make up in powerof lung. The Sanctus bell rings thrice, and the faithful fallprostrate—their heads almost touching the pavement,
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THE CONFESSIONAL, SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO CALIFORNIAN TRAILS, INTIMATE GUIDE TO THE OLD MISSIONS 33their hands, the meanwhile, fumbhng with rude rosaries. At the altar, in gorgeous chasuble of woven silk andsilver, the priest bowing low, says: hi spiritu humilitatis,et in animo contrito suscipiamur a te Domine—(Acceptus. Oh Lord, in the spirit of humility and contrition ofheart, and grant that the sacrifice we offer this day inthy sight may be pleasing to Thee). There is a deepsilence, not a movement—not a sound. It is as thoughthe people are expecting a divine apparition, a mys-terious voice, or some awful revelation to come fromthe dim sanctuary. The buildings slightly tremble, but this passes unno-ticed by the people in the clutch of religious fervor,and the priest continues: Ne perdas cum impiis animammeajn. A low pitched rumbling issues from the earth, as itrises and falls in sympathy with the infernal refrain.The church rocks in violent movement until the domessplit wide apart a

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