pure in heart and humble in spirit, so long can they keep their
well-earned right to show to the world the Tragedy of the Cross.



[1] The word "passion," as used in the term "Passionspiel," signifies
anguish or sorrow. The Passion Play is the story of the great anguish.




THE CALIFORNIA OF THE PADRE.[1]

There is something in the name of Spain which calls up impressions
rich, warm, and romantic. The "color of romance," which must be
something between the hue of a purple grape and the red haze of the
Indian summer, hangs over everything Spanish. Castles in Spain have
ever been the fairest castles, and the banks of the Xenil and the
Guadalquivir still bound the dreamland of the poet.

"There was never a castle seen
So fair as mine in Spain;
It stands embowered in green,
Overlooking a gentle slope,
On a hill by the Xenil's shore."


It has been said of Spanish rule in California, that its history was
written upon sand, only to be washed away by the advancing tide of
Saxon civilization. So far as the economic or political development of