OpOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOQOQQOQGfr 1A Rhode Island jjj | Ofjurch DN W^EEISI Sooooooooocoooosoocoooooco IN Narragansett Bay, and forming part of Rhode Island, is a group called the Narragansett -Isles. The largest of the group is Conan leut Island, which Is so named from Conanieus, a chief of the Narragan setts. a once powerful aboriginal tribe. Conanicut Island is opposite toand near Newport, and is on one of the routes between those two fashionable sum mer resorts, Newport and Nnrragan 6ett Pier. Conanicut Island is nine miles In lengtjj, and its principal village is Tamestown—an active, bustling little :!ace, which possesses the only hotel TIIE INTERIOR IS COMFORTABLE AND WELL APPOINTED. that was ever moved across an arm of the sea. Now, "while there is an abundance of churches and parsons in the more populous part of the State of Rhode Island, the western half, in which Co nanicut Island is situated, is thinly peopled, and has few places of wor ship. In order to provide the summer residents and dwellers in the outlying district with religious opportunities ,;S 4, CHArF.L OF THE TRANSFIGURATION" AS IT APPEARS FROM THE OUTSIDE. I ItOSS AND BELFRY ARE REMOVABLE the Mission of the Transfiguration was organized in at Couanicut Park, live miles from Jamestown. This is a summer mission, supported and attended by people staying in the hotel and adjacent cottages, and the services are held in a "Union Chapel." It was, Mierefore, proposed to build a movable enapel or church on wheels, which might be at Coninicut Park during the summer season, while for the remainder of the year it might lie taken elsewhere to minister to the needs of a farming community. The Chapel of the Transfiguration is a real, practical church, light, cheer ful and roomy, having fourteen pews, space for twenty chairs, and an aisle three feet wide. While the chapel is in transit the running gear is exposed .to view, but when it is at rest, cur ia inboard underpinning is put up on the four sides, and the tongue is re placed by a wide flight of steps. The pews, prayer desk, altar, bishop's chair, etc., are of oak. On one side of \'V\> Vv "*V —— —— __ M/V*! "EN KOLTK"- TIIK I'll('Itt'II ON WIIKKt.N MOVHIT'ON INTO AN OTIIKU COX liitKC.VTUJ.V the fhum t'l I* Mir organ, w ,:oU l« i fliu-il loßi'ther Willi Wra»», a nil oil ihi* I oilier l« u ruliiutf rooui, wltli ciunn. | wardrobe, ioll»>! ciue ami mirror Tim i buililliiji i« cuipuK'U, ibv vtiuucvl lb' | red and the body of the chapel U straw color. The Rev. Charles E. Preston, rectoi of St. Matthew's Church, Jamestown was the originator of the p'an of tin chapel, anu superintended its construe tion. The chapel is, of course, ai liglitlv built as is consistent with strength, so as to be easily drawn along country roads. But, at the same time, it is well proportioned, and al' the details are in keeping with Its size and purpose. It is eighteen feet wide (the wheels being niueteen feet three inches from centre to centre) and twenty-seven feet long, with a little bay window two feet deep, to give Tuore room for ihe altar. From the floor (which is on a level with the plat form) to the ridge-pole is eighteen feet, but the cross and belfry add sev eral feet to the height. These addi tions. however, may be removed when the chapel is being conveyed along the road, so that it may pass under tele- graph and telephone wires. The out side is gray and of somewhat plain appearance, l>ut inside tlie decoration is quite handsome and the arrange ment excellent. The designer, too, has contrived to give an appearance of spaciousness by leaving the interior open to the ridge-polo. The pews are comforta ble, and will seat a hundred persons. The stained glass in the windows is of good color, and all appearance of crowding has been avoided. The chan cel, without reckoning the little bay window, is only live feet by eight feet, but tiie space lias been so well ar ranged that there ia plenty of room. To the left of tlie chancel is the or gan, a small, tine-toned instrument, which was presented by the; makers. Between the organ and the chancel is a brass lectern, and opposite this a reading desk for morning prayers. The value of the entire portable church from belfry to wheels with its lit tings is ?;U)00, but the money actually ex pended in constructing and littting it was less than naif this sum, because the manufacturers of church furnish ings gave nearly all that was required. The pulpit and laetern, the safe, and many other articles were given in this way; while the robes, the cross on the roof and many other things were pre sented by individuals. The oaken al tar was given by the Rhode Island branch of the Women's Auxiliary, in memory of the Rev. Walter Gardner Webster, who perished on the ill fated steamer Bourgogue. In February, 1S!)!>, the chapel was ready to lie moved, and it.was de cided to take it to its first station over the frozen ground. But a blizzard set in, and the work of moving was post poned. On April 17 open-air services were held on the church grounds, and the tlag presented by Klisha Dyer, the Governor of Uiiode Island, was raised. Next day oxen were brought from Middletown and the norlh'rn part of tlie island, and twenty of them har nessed to the chapel-wagon. The rear wheels being slightly elevated on planks, as soon as the brakes were oft the building moved almost before tlie oxen had pulled the chain taut. Twice the chapel fell into pitfalls, but was successfully extricated. After a stop for luncheon the sacred edifice was drawn up on a plot of ground whence it was visible for miles around from Xarragansett Bay and Rhode Island. The first service in the Chapel of tlie j Transfiguration was held on April 23, the Humliiy after tin* moving. ami tb« ' ■tiuM'i'ralliiii look plait* mi June :i. tb# , Higlit Hev. Ur. McVlckwr, Coadjutor > 111»11 1 >|i of HIIIHII I I aland. .iltlcmiiug.— | riw Wide Wuild MutfttzlUf. | Great Gift of . 112 | New Plants to | | Americai) Farmers | A most remarkable collection of rare economic plants and seeds is now being worked up by the Department of Agriculture. Barbour Latlirop, of Chicago, with David G. Falrchild, as assistant, recently completed a tour of the world, covering a period of two years, and embracing travels which amounted to explorations, and Mr. La tlirop has given the results of the ex pedition, undertaken at his own ex pense, to the farmers of the United States through the medium of the sec tion of seed and plant Introduction of the Department of Agriculture. The expedition left New York on December SI, 1898, and returned last fall, having visited in order the follow ing countries and sent in from each living economic plants and seeds for cultivation by American farmers and horticulturists: Jamaica, Grenada, Bar badoes, Trinidad in the West Indies; Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentine, Brazil, in South America; Portugal, Tyrol and Bohe mia in Austro-Hungary; Italy, Egypt, .■Vmboina, Banda, Lombolc, Ball, Mo luccas, Aru and Kol Islands, Teniin ber archipelago and New Guinea in the Dutch East Indies; Hong Kong, Canton in South China; the Philippine Islands, Bankok, Slam; Sweden and Finland, in Northern Europe. Although it is premature to predict the fate of these introduced plants, it will be of interest to point out some of :heir prospects and the reasons for :heir trial. A spineless succulent cactus of the Argentine suitable for fodder pur poses in the desert regions of Arizona. A series of West Indian yams, of which at least one is superior in flavor '.o the Irish potato, suitable for cul '.ure in Florida and Louisiana, but de manding special care and a special market. The Alexandrian clover from Egypt -a late fodder crop for irrigated lands in Southern California aud Arizona. I'his is the principal fodder crop of Egypt. Varieties of "pedigreed" barleys jriginated in Sweden, and of superior value for brewing purposes. Varieties which took twenty out of twenty eight prizes at the Swedish brewers' exposition. Fine West Indian mangoes and su >Wfe-ST , tf INDIAN 112 V' \%! ORAHCt I, ■.. , A]l R£DUC%t> Wi «•„ ImMlflH I 7'IB • "SsEDLMf J! ' ' M' t, v — rmtiD _ SOME OF THE NEW THINGS BK OUGHT BACK BY THE LATH HOP EXPEDITION AND PRESENTED TO THE UNITED STATES. perior sorts of East ludiau bananas for culture in Porto Itlco. An evergreen poplar from Chile for the Pacific slope. A frost-hardy alligator pear for the coming industry of this fruit growing in Florida and California. The Lapland six-rowed barley and the early-ripening Finnish black oat for experiments in Alaska aud such short-seasoned regions. Chilean alfalfa varieties, for breed ing experiments on this most remarka ble of all fodder plants. A Bohemian horse-radish, superior In size and flavor to any American sort. Si veral novel Swedish leguminous (clover-like) fodder plants lately brought to the notice ol' the agricultu ral public of Sweden. The "Januoviteli" Egyptian cotton, which is now being tested by over lotto experimenters in the upland cot ton regions of the South, aud regard lug which tunny eucouragiug reports luive been received. The ".Vlguroblllo," a tannin produc ing shrub front the Chilean deserts, with most remarkable desert resisting characteristics and large tanuin pro ducing • itpaelty, for Arizona condi tions A fodder bamboo for the arid re gains of ili» .Southwest, which forma in Mouth Chile otic of the principal Bounce of fodder lor lurgg herds of est He- "Zucclnl," from Northern Italy. Ons of the most important vegetables of the Venetians, and worthy serious consideration by our truck growers. The seedless Sultanina grape from Padun, Italy, for the seedless raisin industry of the Colorado desert re gion. "SLED SPURS." A New Winter Sport of Which the Cer manM Are Grooving Fond. "Racing Wolf" is the name of a sled now used extensively in Germany. On 112 i ONE OF THE "SLED SPURS." each of the runners in the rear of the sled as shown in the picture is a ver tical bar with a horizontal bar con necting them, which acts as a support for the apparatus. By fastening the "sled spurs" in one of the slides and holding with the hands the bar in front the sled can be propelled at a great speed by pushing with the other foot. Tourists use this sled extensively, as it is portable aud IBIS THE "itACING WOLF." can be conveniently taken into a rail road car. The sled has been often called the "winter velocipede." Largest Hat In the World. Here is a picture of the largest hat in the world, so fur as can be ascer tained, audit was made by an itmbi- tious hatter of a small place In the Philippines, who used 250 yards of "jumbo" straw pleat an Inch in width in the manufacture of this monster head covering. As a means of comparison, what are said to be the smallest lady's sailor A PHILIPPINE HAT. hat uud the smallest uiuu's straw aru held up for cotuparlsou with this, giant, which measures seven and one half feet across the brim aud three feet uruuuv) the vrowu. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINf. Subject: Christian Heroium—-Thoae Wlio Hear Soars Won in the Service of •Te*n* Christ Shall Be Ufchly Hecom pe'isecl—God Will Honor Them. [Copyright 1901. 1 WASHINGTON. 1). C—ln this discourse Dr. Talmage praises Christian heroism ami tells of great rewards. The text is Ga!u tians vi, 17, "I bear in my body the marks of the, Lord .Jesus. - ' We hear much about crowns, thrones, victories, but I now tell the more quiet Btory of scars, honorable and dishonorable. There are i;i all parts of the world people bearing dishonorable scars. They went into the battle of sin and were worsted, and to their dying day they will have a sacrification of body or mind or soul. It cannot be hidden. There are tens of thousands of men and women now conse- Vated to God and living holy lives who were once corrupt, but they have been re generated, and they are no more what they once were than rubesence is emacia tion, than balm is vitriol, than nooday is midnight. But in their depleted physical health or mental twist or style of tempta tion they are ever and anon reminded of the obnoxious past. They have a memory that is deplorable. In some twinge of pain or some tendency to surrender to the wrong which they must perpetually resist they have an unwholesome reminiscence. They carry scars, deep scars, ignoble scars. But Paul in my text shows us a scarifi cation which is a badge of honorable and self-sacrificing service. He had in his weak eyes the result of too much study, and in his body, bent and worn, the signa ture of seourgings and shipwrecks and maltreatment by mobs. In my text he Bhows those scars as lie declares, "I bear in ray body the marks of the Lor.! Jesus." Notice that it is not wounds, but scars, and a scar is a healed wound. Before the scar is well defined upon the flesh the in flammation must have departed, and right circulation must have been restoied, .''lid new tissue must have been firmed. It is a permanent indentation of the flesh—a cicatrix. Paul did well to show these sears. They were positive and indisputa ble proofs that with ;ill hi? bodv. mind and soul lie believed what lie said; they were his diploma, showing that he had graduated from the school of hardship fox- Christ; they were credentials proving his right to lead in the world'.) evangelisation. Men are not ashamed of scars got in battle for their country. No American i;: embarrassed when you ask him, "Where did you get that gash across your fore head?" and he can answer, ''That was from a sabre cut at San .Tuan." When you ask some German. "Where did you lose your right arm?" he is not ashamed to say, "1 lost it at Sedan." When you ask an Italian. "Where did you lose your eye?" he is not annoyed when he can an swer, "I suffered that in the last battle under our glorious Garibaldi." But I re mind you of the fact that there are scars not got in war which are just as illus trious. Wc had in this country years ago an eminent advocate who was called into the Presidential Cabinet as Attorney-Gen eral. In midlife he was in a Philadelphia courtroom engaged in an important trial. The attorney on the opposite side of the case tot irritated and angry, and in most brutal manner referred to the distin guished attorney's disfigured face, a lace more deeply scarred than any face I ever saw. The legal hero of whom 1 am speak ing in his closing argument said: "Gentle men of the jury, when I was a little child I was playing with my sister in the nurs ery, and her clothes caught fire, and 1 ran to her to put out the fire. I succeeded, but I myself took fire, and before it was extinguished my face was awfully burned and as black as the heart of the scoun drelly counsel on the other side of the case who has referred to my misfortune." The eminent attorney of whom I speak carried all his life the honorable scar of his sister's rescue. A young college student in England found all the artistic world in derisive imr suit of William Turner, the painter. The young graduate took ui> his pen—in some respects the most brilliant pen that was ever put to paper—and wrote those five great volumes on modern painting, the chief thought of which was nis defense of the abused painter. The heroic author by some was sup posed in his old days to be cynical and fault finding, and when 1 saw him a little while before his death he was in decad ence. but I know that over his lace and all over his manner were the scars of heroic defense. In the seventies of his lifetime he was suffering from the wounds and fatigues of the twenties. Long after he had quit the battle with author's pen and painter's pencil he bore the scars of literary mar tyrdom. But why do we go so far for illustration when I could take right out of the memo ries of some whom I address instances just as appropriate? To rear aright for God and heaven a large family of children in that country home was a mighty under taking. Par away from the village doctor, the garret must contain the herbs for the cure of all kinds of disorders, through all infantile complaints the children of that family went. They missed nothing in the way of childish disorders. Busy all day was that mother in every form of house work. and twenty times a night called up by the children, all down at the same time with the same contagion. Her hair is white a long while before it is time for snow; her shoulders are bent long before the appropriate time for stooping. Spectacles are adjusted, some for close by and some for far off, years before you would have supposed her eyes would need re-enforcement. Here and there is a short grave in her pathway, this headstone bearing the name of this child and another headstone bearing the name of another child. Hardly one bereavement lifts its shadow than another bereavement drops one. After thirty years of wifehood and motherhood the path turns toward the setting sun. She cannot walk us lar as she used to. Colds caught hang on longer than formerly. Some of the cliilclren are in the heavenly world, for which they were well prepared through maternal fidelity, and others are out in this world doing honor to a Christian ancestry When her life closes and the neighbors gather for her obsequies, the officiating clergyman may find appropriate words in the last chapter of Proverbs: "Her price is far above rubies. The heart of her hus hand doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life; she stretcheth out her hand to the poor; she is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. Her husband is known in the gales when he sitteth among the elders in the land; her children arise no ami call her blessed; her hus band also, ami he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excelle.it them all." Then after the Scripture le»»on is read let all come up. and before the casket is closed look for the last time at the sears of her earthly endurance. She never heard the roll of a «un car riage hi' saw a banner hoisted upon n para pet, but she has ill all the features of that dear old face the marks of many a conflict sears of toil, sears of maternity, stars of «elf sacrifice, scars of bereavement. She is a hei una whose name has never lieen heal d nl tell hulrs fnnn tie..'.l homestead, hut her name la inscribed high up aiming the enthroned immortals. pNM think they must look for mar tvrs on liattletielda or go through a history to find burninga al the stake and torture* on racks when there .tie martyrs all ahoul us. At this time tu this capita] city there nre scores of men wearing themselves oul in the public service. i 'M ten "' eß ™ they will not have a healthy nerve left m their bodv. In com mittee rooms, in consultations that involve the welfare of the nation, under the weight of great responsibilities. their vi ta itv IS being subtracted. In almost every village of the country vou find some bro ~ "own .State or National official. There is a woman who has suffered do mestic injustice of which there is no cog nizance. She snvs nothing about it. An inquisitor's machine of torture could not wring from her the ptorv of domestic wo p < Lver since the day of orange blossoms and long white veil she has done her full duty and received for it harshness and blame and neglect. The marriage ling, that was supposed to be a sign unending affpc t'on. has turned nut to be one link of a chain of horrible servitude. A wrcafh of nettle and nightshade of brightest form would have been a more accurate nronhe cy. There are those who find it hard to believe that_ there is such a place as hell, but you could go ri"bt out in anv commu nity and find piore tlnn one hell of domes tic torment. There is no escape for that woman but the grave, <*nd that, rompared with the lif» she now lives, will be an ar bor of jasminp and of (he humming bird's song poured into the car of the honey suckle. Scars! Tf th°re be none on the brow showing wherp l>r» struck 11or arriv ing home from midnight '•arousal, never theless there are scars all un and down her injured and immortal soul which will be remembered on the dav when th<>re shall leap forth for her the live thunderbolts of an in"en-ied Qod. When we see a veteran in anv land win has lost a limb in battle, our sympathies are stirred: but. oh. how mam- have in the domestic realm lost Iheir life and yet are denied a nillow of dust, on which to slumber! Better enlarge your roll of mar- » tyrs: better adont a new mode of count ing human salifications. A hroken bone is not half as bad as a broken heart. There are manv who "an in thn same sense that Paul uttered it say. "I bear in mv body the marks of the Lord .Te«ns"— that is. for the sake of Christ and TTis cause they carry scars which keen their indenture through all time and all eter nity. Do vou think that Paul was accur ate when he said that? If vou have stud ied his enrerr you have no doubt of it. Tn his youth he learned how to fashion the hair of the Ci'ician goat into canvas, a ouict trade, and then went to college. the President of which was Oamaliol, an in stitution which scholars say could not have been verv thorough because of what tliev call Paul's imnerfert command of Greek syntax. But his history became exciting on the road to Damascus, where he was unhorsed and h'inded. ITi* conversion was a convulsion. Whether that, fall from the horse r ay have left a mark upon him, I know i,./t. but the mob soon took after him and flogged and imnrisoned and mal treated him until h" had s"ars more than enough to assure the truthfulness of his utterance, ''l bear ; n my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." All ye who bear in your bodv th" marks of the Lord Jesus, have you thought what use those marks will be in the heavenly world? What source of glorious reminis cence! Tn that world you will sit t'- v gether and talk over earthly experience*. ''Where did you get that scar?" saint will say to saint, and there will come back a story of hardship and struggle and perse cution and wounds and victory through the grace of the gospel. "Where did you get. thai mark?" says another spirit to listening spirit, and tha answer comes: "That is a reminder of a great bereavement, of a desolated house hold, of a deep grave, of all the heart strings at one stroke snapped altogether. But you see it is no longer a laceration, for the wound has been healed, and my once bereft spirit is now in companion ship with the one from whom for awhile 1 was separated." "Where did you get that long, deep scar?" says another immortal to listening immortal, and the answer comes: "That was the awful fatigue of a lifetime strug gle in attempting amid adverse circum stances, to achieve a lVelihood. For thirty years 1 was tired —oti, so tired! But you see it is a healed wound, for I have found rest at last for body and soul, the complete rest, the everlasting rest that I heard of before I came here as tin rest that rcmaineth lor the people of God." Some one in heaven will say to Martyr John llogers, "Where did you get that ' ar on your foot?" and the answer will come, "Oh. that was a burn 1 suffered when the flames of martyrdom were kin dled beneath me." "Ignatius, what is that mark on your cheek?" "Oh, that was made by the paw of the lion lo which 1 was thrown by the order of Trajan." Some one will say to Paul, "Great apos tle, that must have been a deep cut once —the mark which I see on your neck." And Paul says, "That was made by the sword which struck me at my beheadmenl on the road to Ostia." liut we all have scars of some kind, and those are some of the things we will talk over in the heav enly world while we celebrate the grace that made us triumphant over all antag onism. Now, what is the practical use of this subject? It is the cultivation of Christian heroics. The most of us want to say things and do things for (iod when there is no danger of getting hurt. We are all ready for easy work, for popular work, for compensating work, but we all greatly need more courage to brave the world and brave satanic assault when there is some thing aggressive and bold and dangerous to be undertaken for God and righteous ness. And if we happen to gel hit what an ado we make about it! We all need more of the stuff that martyrs are made out of. We want more sanctified grit, more Christian pluck, more holy reckless ness as to what the world may say and do in any crisis of our life. He right and do right, and all earth and hell combined can not nut you down. The same little missionary who wrote my text also uttered that piled up mag nificence lo lie found in those words which ring like battleaxes on splitting helmets: "In all these things we are more than con querors, through llim that loved lis. for I am persuaded that neither death nor life lior angels nor principalities nor power* nor things present nor things to come noi height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of (iod, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." How do vou like that, you cowards, who shrink back from aggressive work, and if so much as a splinter pierce your flesh cry out louder than many a one torn in auto- * da te. Many a soldier has gone through a long war, been in twenty battles, led a regiment up u lull mounted by cannon and swept by musketry, and vet mine home without having been once hit and without a mark upon him. Hut it will not be so among those who pans in the grand review of heaven. They have all in the holy wars been wounded, and all bear sears. And what would the newly arrived in heaven do with nothing to show that lie had ever been struck by human or diabolic weap onry? llo»v embarrassed and eccentric such a one in such a place! Surely he would want to he excused awhile from the heavenly ranks and be permitted t«» de scend to earth, crying. "(Jive me another chance to do something worthy of ill im mortal! Show me some post of danger lo lie manned, some fortrc»» to Is- stormed, some ilitlholt charge to make Like laoni das .1! Thermopylae, like Mil. „.lcs at Ma lathon. like Marlborough at Blenheim, like liodlrcv at Jerusalem, like Winkelried at Si'inpaeli lathering the ->|>cars of the Aus trim kinuht« into his bosom, giving his life lor others; allow me some place where I can do a brave thing for (tod 1 cannot go Itack to heaven until somewhere I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus " Mv hearer, mv reader, ijuit complaining about your misfortunes and disappoint ments and troubles ami through all tim* aud all «t«riulr thauk Uod (or scars.
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