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Show f BAPTIZED IN THE OCCAM. "' tliplu rsnteirs l , It.llcUsi - . Osrtsnesr an e llilil lilsftd. ,1, 1 Rsran'e Island, Utongli IjInR In ilflit ( I ol Oulr 1cnn Island, Mount Desert, Ai contains od of tlio liapplret and imet J! Uw abiding coinmutilUe to to fount ' In all lli earth. Vi llh a population of m but 611 II maintains good acliuoUanl ' tiro churches, onii of (avhlrti li a inod iu era edifice, liandsomcl flnliunl Inside . and out, and baring a iwrrt sounding T ami eoatlj 111 Thcr U on quarr; I Ultra and oui farming, but all tin It ' 1 connected wltli Ui am. 0 For some time there ba been a great j religious Interest manifested more than 'k, ball the people there are member of . one of the two churches, which am 1 1 Methodist and tlaptlst, and on Bundar mi twsrit; soren were baptlrcd In lh At- 1 ' initio b Ilia Iler llr Dunn, of Water- ii ellle, and Iter Mr Hall, of Clifton. ? Imagine Unit an Island In mldocean. ' , Upon una il la li a llttla bainlot, nostlod n down clow by tlio hi, wherein are two 01 old wherre and a bench of nuid. Ilia , l latter a lonn pcrho tin latfonn 10 f of tba upper ttatlon In fowbton, I . I Deck of Ilia beach li n atnall bluff aa ' '!' IiIrIi a a two story house, and on tliU " 400 of tU Islandtr are gathered. Tlia s7 la clear, wltli tbowtad eo brisk M N to send tlio sea gulls sailing swlflljr end if with canting wing across tlia skjr, while , nudcr tbetn and not mora than fair gunshot away a school of tool iwlm '' and dlra for herring Tlia warm are g broken aouiowhat by an out4r Hlnt, ui but tlwy roll In and recede, fully twenty 111 feet Juit at tlia tip of the wet und 11 tliere gather tlio twenty wren eixndl '' datca, with friend and a choir to Uk ' number of 100. .li There hu been no preparation for ni thli baptbm In tha matter of clothing, to, either for the permn to be baptlied or a the clargyi fifteen itolwart young tub-ermiin tub-ermiin drceeed In their beet, eren wear- . log their wetebeei twilre wuuien In j wlJte lumuior dnvr and low lhon in the tnlnlitere In black nilla m they if I came npon the Uland, and as they itood In tlie pulpit and preached and prayed. P' A goepcl eong floatj out ujion tho air ,', and li Lurried away orer tlio bearing ril eea and orer tbeeeala, who lift their ei heade and listen, and then preacher S and fUhermon walk out Into the green I r warea "j The tong ceaMe, the baplUraal rite U I performed, and again the tuneful hymn I le heard. The other clergyman U al ready walking It, and all the while, u the men and women come from out tlie n water, reUtlree and frlonde ruth about I I them, crying with aicltement and Joy, y kheing and camulng. 'J "Yea," aild one italwart flihenoan, ,1 "the Harlour called me tliU inoralng II I thought I would be baptheil later 1 orer on Uount Deeert, but bo kept calling, call-ing, and tlili morning I took my Ixnt and itartoil for over Lore. I had hrrul I, wlndt and beat orer J irnut lure d tailed taenly lullee to get eight, but " here I am, and I in glad I came," Lewlitoo Journal, |