The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

THE PAPAGO INDIANS.
Alas! Time has blackened its frescoed walls, and sactilegious hands have defaced its fine statuary and paintings;
but the building itself will stand in its massive strength for
a thousand years, and its graceful spire, silently pointing
upwards, will not fail to remind the beholder that, hundreds
of years ago, upon the deserts of Arizona, the example of
the lowly Nazarene was held forth for the guidance of pagan
Indians, ill obedience to the Divine command, "Go ye into
all the world, and preach the Gospel."
Does not this magnificent building, with its desert surrounding,s, teach the stay-at-home-and-take-your-ease Christians of the present day a lesson worthy of imitation?
'Twas an inexpressibly sad sight, this crumbling monument of man's faithfulness and devotion in extending the
reign of our Lord Jesus Christ; and as I stood before its
altar, my eye vainly striving to pierce the deep gloom of
its shadowy aisles and recesses, the sight of a venerablelooking, old Indian, devoutly kneeling with uncovered head
before a little crucifix, carried my thoughts far back to the
day and generation when the choir responded to the solemn
mass, "Glory to God in the highest"; and I could almost
hear the sweet tones of the priest, as they resounded through
the arched and gloomy recesses of the old church, repeating, "And on earth peace, good-will toward men."
Desolation and decay, however, have left their ineffaceable
matrks upon the building; and as I left its portals it was
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