In the gallery are windows representing John on the Isle of Patmos and others of pictorial significance.

We rejoice with her that at last we begin to know what John on Patmos meant"And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars."

SPIRIT OF SADNESS AN INSCRIPTION SONG ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AN ELEGY High on his Patmos of the Southern Seas Our northern dreamer sleeps, Strange stars above him, and above his grave Strange leaves and wings their tropic splendours wave, While, far beneath, mile after shimmering mile, The great Pacific, with its faery deeps, Smiles all day long its silken secret smile.

John is said to have preached in India, and we know that he was at the Isle of Patmos, in the Archipelago.

Patmos 18 in compass.

The Vision of St. John in Patmos.

The former was the precursor of the Saviour, the first who proclaimed him to the world as such; the latter beheld the vision in Patmos, of the Woman in travail pursued by the dragon, which is interpreted in reference to the Virgin and her Child.

St. John the Evangelist is generally the young and graceful disciple; but in some instances he is the venerable seer of Patmos, "Whose beard descending sweeps his aged breast.

The two wings representon one side, the beheading of St. John the Baptist; on the other, St. John the Evangelist, in Patmos, and the vision of the Apocalypse.

We had a bachelor uncle who delighted in telling us tales of the supernatural, and he peopled these graveyards with ghosts, in which I believed as implicitly as in the Revelations made to John on the Isle of Patmos, which were my favorite literature.

The mental changes undergone by Saul of Tarsus, by John on Patmos, by Nabuchodonosor, and by many others, are not less wonderful than, yours.

He'd had a blow-out down the other side of Patmos and he was sore because they didn't have no tires he could use down there.

Patmos consists of a water tank on the railroad, a siding where trains can pass each other, a ten-by-ten depot, telegraph office and express and freight office, six sweltering families, one sunbaked lodging place with tent bedrooms so hot that even the soap melts, and the Casey Ryan garage.

The highway (Coast to Coast and signed at every crossroads in red letters on white metal boards with red arrows pointing to the far skyline) shies away from the railroad at Patmos so that perspiring travelers look wistfully across two hundred yards or so of lava rock and sand and wish that they might lie under those three trees and cool off.

So the water supply of Patmos lies twelve miles away in the edge of the hills, where there is a very good spring.

One of the six male residents of Patmos hauls water in barrels, at fifty cents a barrel.

Juan was gone a long while, long enough to walk slowly to the station of Patmos and back again, but he returned with the tub, and the incessant bleating of the goats stilled intermittently while they drank.

How could them darn tourists tell'what was goin' on in Patmos?

After that he worked for three days, with all the men in Patmos to help him, getting the goats into the crates and loaded on the truck.

Patmos had been led to believe that he would send those goats off on the train, and Casey did not know what would happen if he failed.

Casey went back to the garage safe and got what money he had, borrowed the balance from the male citizens of Patmos and prepaid the express.

Patmos helped to load them into the first express car going west, and Casey felt, he said, as if some one had handed him a million dollars in dimes.

You ask anybody in Patmos.

You ask anybody in Patmos.

He told her about the goats in Patmos and made her laugh so hard that Babe woke and whimpered a little, and insisted that Casey take her up and rock her again in the old homemade chair with crooked juniper branches hewn for rockers.