Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . housand, while hundreds haddied in the faith during the thirty-sevenyears of his ministry. What he did bythe good hand of God upon him, wasmarvelous, and he now being dead, yetspeaketh with an influence that cannotdie and an appeal that cannot be si-lenced. Of whom Dr. H. H. Jessup said, When I reach heaven the first personwhose hand I wish to grasp, next to theApostle Paul, is Adoniram , for the joy that was set before him,endured the cross, and having receivedthe crown, is set down at the right handof God, where he shall be forever withhis Lord, an
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . housand, while hundreds haddied in the faith during the thirty-sevenyears of his ministry. What he did bythe good hand of God upon him, wasmarvelous, and he now being dead, yetspeaketh with an influence that cannotdie and an appeal that cannot be si-lenced. Of whom Dr. H. H. Jessup said, When I reach heaven the first personwhose hand I wish to grasp, next to theApostle Paul, is Adoniram , for the joy that was set before him,endured the cross, and having receivedthe crown, is set down at the right handof God, where he shall be forever withhis Lord, and his works do follow him. They that be wise shall shine as thebrightness of the firmament; and theythat turn many to righteousness as thestars for ever and ever. Hark! the voice of Jesus calling-;Who will go and work to-day?Fields are white, the harvest waiting—Who will bear the sheaves away? Loud and long the Master callethRich rewards He offers free:Who will answer, gladly saying,Here am I, O Lord, send me? Union Bridge, 102 SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO By HOWARD MILLER When you are at Los Angeles, Cali-fornia, and about all who visit that Stateget to the City of the Angels first orlast, you will want to see one of the oldSpanish missions of the coast. There aretwenty-one of these, in various condi-tions of ruins, and perhaps the best oneto see is that of San Juan Capistrano,—the Spanish for Saint John the these early Spanish propagandistsalways named their surroundings eitherafter a saint or on account of some re-ligious feature or circumstance. The re-sult is that sometimes the naming savorsof blasphemy. The writer does not seewhat good is gained by naming a gristmill, The Mill of the Blood of JesusChrist, but the name is a Spanish fact,while the Street of the Holy Ghost, the Street of Jesus Christ, and the like, arecommon enough. One does not, and can not, get a cor-rect idea of these old missions from anywritten description. There is an atmos-phere about the
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