the little folk are gathered there of a Sunday afternoon, can hardly fail to be arrested by the sound of their sweet young voices singing in joyous unison some swinging chorus, or to be held for a few minutes at least by the attraction of the bright little faces massed in close rows before the platform. There are hundreds of pairs of eyes there as sparkling as any gems; though, in these days of white frocks and suits, of little lads' bright ties and little girls' big ribbon bows, the picture suggested is perhaps rather that of a flower garden than of a jewel case.

KATE J. SKIRM

In 1887 the Primary Department of the Ocean Grove Sunday School, which until then had met in the Young People's Temple and was known to some who are now parents and even grandparents as the "Infant Class," was removed to its present home in the Tabernacle. During its first twenty years this department had several superintendents, among them Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Titian P. Summers, Miss Martha Van Marter, and Miss Mary A. Lathbury. But there was scarcely a time in its history when the present superintendent, Mrs. Kate J. Skirm, was not in close association with it in some capacity, and now for twenty-nine years she has been in entire charge of its work, assisted by a number of able helpers who are themselves "graduates" of

this department in years gone by, and who know how to attract and hold the interest of the hundreds of little folk who gather here on Sunday afternoons. The regular lesson is always taught, keeping the connection with the work in the home Sunday school unbroken. It has been said that the Primary Department not only looks like a flower garden, but "sounds like a choir of cherubs." If anything can be judged from the numbers of "grown-ups" always gathered on the outside of the Tabernacle, it is a most inviting place to them as well as to the children.

THE CHINESE DEPARTMENT

This department was organized in 1885. It has always met in Association Hall, usually at nine o'clock in the morning. The smallest of the

divisions of the Sunday school, it is yet the one which perhaps requires the greatest devotion and self-denial on the part of its workers, as a teacher is needed for each pupil. Because of the difficulties which the Chinese meet with in the English language, they cannot be grouped in classes. For a number of years the attendance numbered from seven to twelve. Later it increased to as many as forty. The Chinese Department opens on the first Sunday in June. Miss Eva Mackrell, whose name has been for about fifteen years the one chiefly associated with this branch of our Sunday school work, is again in charge. Few efforts. for the making of Christians or of citizens bring greater rewards than this. Young men and youths are especially urged to lend a hand here, there being a pressing need for work which they, more than any others, can do.

EVA L. MACKRELL

THE MODEL OF JERUSALEM

The Model of Jerusalem was presented to Ocean Grove in 1881 by the Rev. W. W. Wythe, M.D., a member of the Erie Conference and at that time a resident of Ocean Grove, who had designed and made it at a great expenditure of time, labor, and research, as well as an actual outlay of about $2,500 in money. Twelve hundred miniature trees, made during the winter of the following year by Mr. Wistar H. Stokes, added much to its beauty.

This Model, located on Ocean Pathway near the Auditorium, is, as its name indicates, not a picture, but a miniature representation in relief and color, of the modern city of Jerusalem, showing its configuration of streets, dwellings, mosques, and minarets, walls, gates, water-courses, and surrounding hills-some of them partly wooded-in remarkable detail. So accurate in the reproduction that scores of travelers who have visited Jerusalem have found keen delight in identifying its different sections and even individual buildings.

Eminent lecturers also have spoken upon its site, including the brilliant and distinguished Lydia von Finkelstein (afterward Mrs. Mountford), herself a native of Jerusalem; Allan Moore, F. R. G. S.; and the Rev.

Marshall Owens, of the New Jersey Conference. It is expected that similar explanatory and descriptive talks will be made a feature of this summer's program also.

Ocean Grove's first and most continuous attraction, the one of which no program was needed or can be prepared, is its almost unequaled sea

THE MODEL OF JERUSALEM

front. Originally a mere expanse of drifting dunes, mottled here and there by patches of coarse beach grass-yet even then inviting to true sea-lovers -it has come with the flight of years to be featured by the present broad and handsome Board Walk, parallel to the shore and flanked on the landward side by a wide stretch of well-kept and beautiful green lawn, over

looked by many attractive cottages and hotels bordering the charming ocean driveway. This whole beach front, reaching more than half a mile from lake to lake, is kept clear from all obstructions, provided with a large number of seats, and maintained by the Camp Meeting Association at its own expense for the free enjoyment of residents and visitors.

The Board Walk is too well known to require description. Thousands of people all over the country are familiar too with the North End, its elegant Pavilion and many varied attractions. The South End, also, once equally familiar and popular, but ravaged and desolated about three years ago by fire, has now been rebuilt. The new Pavilion, with its more than fourteen thousand feet of floor space, affords a most delightful rendezvous at a most desirable bathing place.

THE BOARD WALK

It was not long after Ocean Grove became a reality before the need of a plank walk along the ocean from Wesley to Fletcher Lakes became apparent. In its original state the ocean front was an undulating sand dune.

The first board walk was a couple of planks laid lengthwise on stringers. With the removal of the sand dune in July, 1877, a plank walk was laid two thousand eight hundred and thirty-five feet long and six feet wide, reaching from lake to lake. This was lighted with twenty-one lamps. The expense of this work was liberally aided by the generous donations from Mr. Joseph Ross and Mr. T. W. Lilligore, the respective lessees of the bathing privileges at the foot of Wesley Lake and Fletcher Lake.

In 1880 the plank walk was changed from a width of six feet to sixteen feet, constructed of white pine plank; it was three thousand two hundred and fifty-seven feet long from Wesley Lake to Fletcher Lake. The total cost was $3,250-about $1 per running foot.

Strolling on a quiet day along the Board Walk on its slight natural bluff, the rippling waters making scarcely a sound as they lightly lap the sand, it is difficult to realize the ungovernable power of the northeast wind, which sometimes in a few hours can whip up a sea of pounding breakers dashing high upon the shore and threatening destruction to everything within their reach.

This destruction has proved in many other places much more than a threat. Ocean Grove, however, has fortunately escaped serious ravage by storm except on one occasion. At that time the damage to the beach was so great as to seem irreparable, old Neptune having ripped up and washed away the shore, the street, and the ground to the very steps of the houses at one point on Ocean Avenue. But the Camp Meeting Association rose to the emergency, devised and built a system of jetties, pumped in sand from the ocean bed to fill the hole, and at a cost of $25,000, secured what is now the finest beach and promenade along the Atlantic coast, with nothing to obstruct the view or intercept the cooling breeze on either side-the favorite gathering place and common pleasure-ground of our visitors.

In 1882, though faring vastly better than any other coast and inland places, the protracted September storm cut the beach from Surf Avenue to