Park's permanent pastor is Alfred G. Glass shown hav ing morning devotions with summer helpers Philip Ei- senhauer (Evangelical & Reformed) and Mason Brown (Baptist). Even during winter months Rev. Glass has nine services a week, with standing-room-only crowds.
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granite walls. Two brief years later Florence died but the Old Village Chapel has continued to minister to the thousands who have come to see the quiet beauty of Yosemite.
Chapel is a bridge with pioneer days. The first white child born in the Valley was Forence Hutchings and for Florence Hutchings the chapel was in a very real way the house of God. In the bright springtime of womanhood Florence tenderly and humbly performed the duties of jan itor and caretaker. Just two years before, when she was 16, Florence had been visiting in San Francisco and attended the First Congregation al Church there where Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey were hold ing revival meetings. Through these meetings Florence came into a vital relationship with God. In the com ing months part of the evangelistic team (including hymnwriter George Stebbins) visited Florence and her be loved chapel nestled among the tall
his summer Americans will again methodically leave rou tin e s behind and head for their an
nual vacation. And nearly a million of these vacationers will be treking to Yosemite National Park. Here they will find 1,200 square miles of towering granite, plunging waterfalls and quiet, glaciated valleys. And many of these millions will find a little New England style meeting house called the “ Old Village Chap el” (see cover). This simple build ing, resting harmoniously in its set ting of meadow, trees and gray gran ite walls, today is the last man-made guardian of the Valley’s early his tory and the oldest relic still stand ing of those stirring days. Built in 1878, the Old Village
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