"He was teaching school on one of the islands near Mount Desert in the Summers and going to college the rest of the time.

There wasn't any church on this island and so he used to conduct services in the place they used for a school.

Somehow, that put it into his head--or maybe his heart--to be a preacher.

He preached around in all sorts of out-of-the-way places, and then this Mission started up and the folks behind it just naturally got hold of him and put him in charge.

A New York woman had the _Sunbeam_ built for him three or four years ago and now he lives right on it, he and a couple of men for crew, and she keeps pegging around the islands, up and down the coast, Summer and Winter.