Welcome to
“The Garden of Meditation”

A Place Of Reverence for Meditation and
Inspiration

The "Garden of Meditation" was a popular feature of Clinton's Pacific Seas. Located downstairs off the front entrance, the Garden contained a sculpted figure of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane in a authentic natural setting. Entrance to the Garden was through the room of the Weavers, where architecture, furnishings, crafts and costumed attendants were replicas of those familiar to Christ in first century Jerusalem. In the Grotto of the rock one could hear the recording of "The Influence of One Life".

"Room of the weavers"

"The Well"

"The Garden" was a setting done in the period A.D. 33, and an interpretation of the famous artist Hoffman's "Christ in The Garden". The Garden was first conceived by Clifford E. Clinton in 1943, when he commissioned sculptor, Marshall Lakey to fashion the life-sized figure of Christ, kneeling in prayer. The mural behind Christ depicting the City of Jerusalem and the Garden of Gethsemane was painted by Einar Petersen, the artist who restored the huge Hall of the Crucifixion mural at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.




When Clifton's Pacific Seas was closed and then razed in 1960 the figure of Christ remained in storage until Clifton's Silver Spoon was opened in 1975, where a new Garden was created. When that location was closed in 1998 the figure was relocated to it's new home at The Holyland Exhibition in Los Angeles (213) 664-3162.

The narration of "The Influence of One Life" (which you can hear by clicking on the link) is the original done by Dr. Louis H. Evans, Sr., and was written by Ernest Chamberlain as suggested by Clifford Clinton. For information on how to purchase a copy of it, go to Clifton's Souvenir Page.


The recording is offered as a simple presentation of Christ’s influence on the world. The Garden is not intended as a shrine or a promotion of any denomination, sect, or creed. Clifton’s owners feel that true faith must come from within, and the Garden is offered as a place where a reverent person my quietly encourage the Spark that is in all of us.


In “The Garden” may you find renewed hope, faith and courage to “nobly save the last best hope of earth” -- to live to the spirit of Him whose fateful hour of decision has set the pattern for service to God and man.
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