The Largest Cross

1895

The Evangelist says that the largest cross in the world now stands in Drake's bay, North America. Over 300 years ago the celebrated Sir Francis Drake landed in this bay, and his chaplain, Francis Fletcher by name, preached the very first English sermon ever heard in that region. To commemorate this event Bishop Nichols of California and the late George W. Childs caused a large stone cross to be erected on the spot, a cliff standing 300 foot above the sea. The cross is 57 feet high, of blue sandstone. Several of the stones in it are larger than the largest stone in the pyramid of Cheops. This splendid monument can be seen far and wide and is literally a sermon in stone.


Not In Their Set

"You must be very careful to have nothing to do with those bacilli," said a germ mamma to her small daughter.
"Why, mamma?"
"Because we belong to the very exclusive artificially propagated bacilli, while they can lay no claim whatever to culture." — New York Sun.


Memory

John Bunyan made himself very popular among his people by remembering them all. He said a face never left him.