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All grocers `sell Sala da'- in sealed metal packets only. 1 J V "` swan CREAM DAIRY }'////////////////, Thursdty, Sept. 29, 1921 . .. vnavlk unuubs -L Wordsworth . --------.---1---- FAOTS AND FANCIES _ FURSf 38-41p xglnu vu_ uuve `M18111. Two, tours of the larger Russi-an centres; outside Petrograd were undertaken by Miss ' Crawford, one in 1916 and the other-in 1917. The first tour was made with little trouble but'the.second, made in the x-st! year that the Bolshevietehaad secured pow- ` - N-arodny Dom (or People s` Opera) upon ' came unheralded, a voluminous` sheaf of aucpcuat: was wruuie. _ Miss Crawford `had been in Warsaw since the winter of 1913, having come from Italy to fulll operatic contracts. In Italy this young artiste had been studying under Sig- lnoria Corsi,-an interpreter and teacher of [operatic roles. Prior to this Miss Crawford had spent a 'year and a half in London studying with Madame Nuvosky. ' V It was the Toronto girl s good fortune to secure an immediate engagement with the, her arrival in Petrograd and,` although she press-notices bear testimony to the instant triumph she `attained. J All that winter Miss Crawford sang in various roles with the Narodny `Dom. Later she appeared in concert work and sang on various occasions at -war benet entertainments arranged by the Empress and the Grand Duchess. For _ `her services at these entertainments Miss` `Crawford was awarded :a number of med- als concerning which she says. I don't suppose they are `of much use but I a I "glad to have them." "I`..... a........ .: LL- n___. n uuc ounce LB, __ IuI:'Lubcl.VU5. I Miss Crawford went to Petrograd from ' Warsaw, her departure from the Polish capital `being necessitated in November, 1914, by the rst German drive. Speak- ing of this time, Miss Crawford said that she did not wish` to relate details of the diiculties and perils encountered but sum- med it all up by saying: It was most en- erveting. We did not know what -morning we would waken to nd the Germans in possession of the city. Bombs were drop; ped by` German airplanes and the general suspense `was terrible. Miss n.......c.....4 1.-.: 1...... z. 117------ -:_-- national trial and adversity. In Russia, for instance, where Miss Crawford lived from January, 1915, until the end of 1918, the suffering from lack of food, reected in long lines of peoplewaiting for.days at a time for the handing out of charity ra- tions, might be contrasted with the spon- taneous outbreaks of artistic enthusiasm which would lead the people to publicly` acclaim an operatic favorite by unhitching the horses and drawing the carriage through the streetsttheniselves. v 11:... n.......r..-.1 _--....L L- n-.,,;-r. ,- - .-.--.. ..-.v ....a urvllv yuan:-u Jiialn Interviewed by The Star. Miss Crawford related just enough of her observations during the war to reveal -fascinating glimpses of the exalted position maintained by the musical arts in the land of the Slav and Muscovite even in jhe time of sore f///////////////////4 I ' r. . . [FORMER ELMVA\LE SINGER _ RETURNS HOME FROM RUSSIA Miss Bertha Crawford. 21 former Elmvale resident. whose ability as a soprano vocalist was widely recognized before she went abroad to study, has just returned fora visit to her family in Toronto. after an absence of ten years. In addition to win- ning many lanrels on the operatic and con- cert stage. Miss Crawford has had thrilling war-time experiences in -Poland and Russia, where she has spent eight years. \ 1'..4.._...:....._.I L__ mL. (1. g... .. - auawunncu \-nuuy. I . After spending 9. week with Mrs. and Mrs. Cassels at Ladywood", , Byng left on Thursday evening in he I vate car foxj Ottawa. Ezuwxug uu uer 8868.28 m tsngland. T The officers of the Bame Women's Can- adian Club px:esent.were: .Mrs. Wismer (Pres.), Miss Elgood (Vrice Pres.), Mrs; Daniel Quinlan (Treas.) and Mrs. J. /A. MacLaren (Secy.). Affnr annninn 1. ......d. ...`.4.L II, An ".cALLElD on LADY avuc Although Lady Byng was unable ac- cept the invitation to address the Barrie _Women's. Canadian Club. she graciously in~ vri'ed the officers to Ladywood" last` Thursday afternoon. The visit was _very informal and three-quarters of an hour was most pleasantly"passed.i Lady Byng, who has a cha.rming'~ma.nner. chatted freely up- on various subjects and showed herself `keenly interested in all things Canadian. She was greatly delighted with the beauties of the bay and the- country roundabout. A good part of the morning she had spent gin the woods gathering wild owers and 3 she hopes` some day to have -many of these growing on her estate in Englan . officers of Hm Rm-I-in Wnmnn - (L... I-the charm of Juu , uuuy M m her pn- Allan. Lady Ar nu`- The affix caster or cheater, promin- ent m names of Enghsh cities, is a corrup- txon of the Roman word ca.stra.", a camp. wucu am; rcuurueu B0 uonuon and saued for New York on the Carmanraj on Aug. 27. CAMPBELL ' tants ge St'., Torontn Campbell, C.A. . A llllllu I It wasmot until the end of 1918 _that the; clouds of war `had lifted sllfficiently to per-- lmit Miss Crawford to return to Warsaw` and there she was when the Bolshevist? forces threatened Warsaw until eventually, compelled to withdraw by the French. Dur- i ing_ August, 1919, Miss Crawford considered the outlook so far from hopefhl that she had her trunks sent to Danzig and was! only persuaded from following them by the; condent assunances of the English and` French consuls that the `Bolshevists would never get -into the city. Miss Crawford remained in Poland until July of this year -1 when she returned to London and sailed ' fnr Nntnr Vnrlr in-. 4-Ln I`.........\..:...' ._ .A ....' G"! I l er, was amid many transportation difficul-i ties. This latter tour` was originally plan-|' ned to include a trip to Japan, but when, after numerous obstacles, the port of Vlad- ' ivost0ck`was reached it was found that` there was uot.a chance in the world of get-; ting passag on any vessel. Consequently. the visit to the land of Nippon had to be` `cancelled and Miss Crawford went to Fin- land. ` ' 1" ___,_A ,A_L ,, .-I .1 1 A ...-... . I v I I _,_____ -..._,-. --- .... ...v.-uvu vu uuuk. Moreover. if you call this holiness car-? riage-maker ahypocrite, there are a Iot of other people you will have to call hypo-Q` crites too. .And some of these people are? so well-known and prominent in church,5 Iuavna will awuu [MILE nay. There ended the sermon. Nebuch`adnez- zar retired within the loft to cogitate on, puttied cracks, sizzling heat, painted frauds, 4 testing res. supercial holiness and All-' seeing Eyes. .1" i Let him who will, call such a man a! hypocrite. We are inclined to think thati he is just as much deceived himself as any! one else is deceiwed by him. He has got? a wrong idea of God. He thinks that God is a God of Sundays, but not a God of` Saturdays and Mondays. He -thinks that-' He is a God of prayer and testimony meet-E ings, but not a God of carriage shops, put-- ty knives and paint brushes. Many a man is self-deceived into thinking that God is` so well satised with his testimonies, pray- ers and performances in church that He turns 3. blind eye to his crookedness out of ' church. God is wide-awake on Sundays.f{ Other days He is inclined to doze. f] [U-.`.`l:lIu . V t It` was a hot day, when Johnny delivered` that load of hay. It was especially hot in the loft where Nebuchadnezzar was storing] it away as Johnny pitched it` in. Nebu-3 chadnezzar came to the door of the loft to get a. -breath of air. The heat inside made: him think of the future. He could not re-'~ sist the temptation to preach .a sermon tn such a sinner as_Johnny Dale. M It lap on nutfnl Hon `Tn!-inn" .... ..... auuu -a summer as_.Jon-nny uale. . It will be an awful day, Tlohnny. an aw- ful day. the Day of Judgment. A ,Yes, Nebuchadnezzar. yes! No puttied bracks will stand that day." There enrlml flu: gnu-r'n.nn Mnktvnk---Jnnn .. ...-yruu-.au vun: VVCIJ. -WIVt'eh`u;:'had11ezzar had bought a load of` hay from a farmer, whom we shall. call Johnny Dale. Johnny did not gure as a- front-seat-in-the-synagogue christian. He was a member of one of the regular line churches. and attended it regularly. But he did not make a-loud profession. Just the same he lived a lot more than he pro- fessed. ' .l.`__A_V7V _ .. ` . . - . . .. - H. J. Twiss LU uuu ule unm 'Am8I). In spite of his holiness and his prayersl loud and long, ' Nebuchadnezzar was not,* looked upon by his neighbors as being a _ model of honesty in business. It used to be whispered around by the uncharitable that he had been known. even since .he for- sook the devil and all his works, to putty up a crack or knot-hole in a piece of wood, paint it over, put it `into the shaft_of a. buggy and sell it to some plainlsinner. There weresinners who went so far asio say that Nebuchadnezzar had actually done them like `hat during the week, and then . prayed and `testified with special power and unction on the following Sunday. We heard of only one who ever said that to hislface. It happened this way. - . B KTo.Ln.J.....I......_..._ `L-J LA - | -.._ -..... .vu-auvusnxnuxaultiul IUI Dllllllln Nebuchadnezzar was a carriage-maker in a. certain village which -must remain name less. He was also a. local preacher and a power in prayer in a little sect whose mem- bers professed b0 be entirely without sin. It was a Holiness Sect. We have heard Nebuchadnezzar profess many times that he had lived uxnpty-ump years without sin. We have also heard him pray so long and loud that he became -purple in, the face. choked and `collapsed __ without being `able to add the nal -Amen." Tn ms... -4` 1.:.. L..1:.__.i_ ._.I t! f///////xmva FURS REMODELLED AND REPAIRED MISS M. McARTHUR King Block - - Barrio We knew. the -horrible example" of this incident in the days of our youth. That was sometime ago. Judging from th age he was then and the number of years hich have elapsed "since, he ought to be dead by now. But lest he be still alive, and might. object. to the publicity given him hereby, we shall not give his real name, but just call him Nebuchzidnezzar for short. \7,L_. .1. , Upstairs Tailor Shop A ROSS BLOCK ~ Phone 731 Good Assortment of Suitings and V Ovgrcoatings TAILOR F OR LADIES ` AND `AN EVERDAY GOD - THE BARRIE EXAMINER : ,, uL 11.13 muguum. 115 would be well 8m't- , if we would make more of them for the v y- N same purpose. Are you a, merchant? Make 33- 4 a point of getting hold of merchants for m- Christ. Are you a blacksmith? Cultivate ?aftl,; )`:1iI: t"e%iit;_t!:u:s`:: the blacksmiths. An unrighteousedrict of H d An {Claudius had driven Aquila and Priscilla h "953 3" `I out of Rome.` It douibtless seemed to them in a bitter thing, but God turned it to their ed good, to no less a good than their eternal . . 1' ' f.P..76:10. yedphlmself as any .::dVaatl0Il (c s ) There are men , t y y who think `it wrong. a lack ofl hm". got faith, to do -manual labor or any secular ` -9 work for their own support or that of their t f; families because God has called" them d _ t Q to preach. If there was ever a man about lestmfony mee'zwhose call to preach `there could be no ""'_`a3`13u5hpsv put` ` possible doubt,_ it ,'is_ this man Paul. and yet any ma." _he wrought with `his hands (of. ch. 20:34, lung. '8. God `S 35). He got right down --to honest toil, teSmmes* pray" and set a wholesome example for the church and for us (1 Cor. 926-12; 2 Thes. 3:8, 9; rookedness of` 1 rl-hes_ 2:9, k6 3 Snd'y5'day. men so on re with the gospel and I Ozf" glove for souls -that they will not wait for 081'-jsomeone to promise them support beforel 10$,`-theywill preach. but, if need be. support |8V8 hYP0';` themselves. Paul preached, too, while be People are; worked. To an audience of two; a small illent In Church, f audience, -but how these quiet meetings ' ;counted for eternity. Probably he got . . . {pretty tired during the week. but every pornmoll d`fl';Sabbatl1 found him at his post. Note a ?a4rA`) ;=:it.)allt.3'v` 1:I`]- ;!\'ery expressive statement in the R. V., Paul wan nnn.-h-ulnar! Inn 41... .-.,.....I 7 TL! I We need many Pauls to- 1; Engineer. y Department 'u\I uuzwu nun uuuau. 1|; 13 llU use wrung 7 a man not to be afraid unless you give him _`some reason for fearle$ness. But here is 2 an all-sufficient reason, -and every child 015 God who is obeying Christ and going out to do His work has the same reason (Mat. |\cl _y expressive statement in the R. V.,l 3 f Paul was cpnstrained by the word. Paul ` ' . had meditated upon the Word of God un- it til it had so gotten hold of him that he *1 " could not keep still (cf. Jer. 20:9; Ac._4. FY .' 20). It impelled him on. It showed him, '9, and overpowered him, with the thought that Jesus was the Christ, and he must , tell it out. But the.Jews were not willing 13` to receive Paulls testimony. `-`They op- 1" ; posed themselves and -blasphemed. The W, most faithful testimony will often `be re- t - ceivcd in that way. That does not prove r I; it untrue, or that it has been unwisely put. _d It simply -shows the th'oroug~h-going badness of the hearts of even religious men. But Paul's testimony was not in vain, after all. A large and singularly gifted church grew fup in Corinth. Paul.` in the face of all d their opposition and rejection, could say, jd I am clean. It is a great thing for any ' man to be able to say that. We can only "say that we are clean from the. blood of , `all men" (Ac. 20:26), when we can say, `gas Paul does in the next verse, For I { ehrank not from declaring unto you the 1. whole counsel of God (R.V.). If we do .-_ not warn men, if we do not declare unto '4 .,'them the way of life. `then their blood is _ `upon US (Ez. 33:4, 8, 9). But are we " indeed clean from the blood of all in our homes, in our churches, in our Sunday School classes,- in our community, -in the lands beyond the sea? II. Paul Conducting a Revival in the [Home of Justus in Corinth, 7-11. ' 9 Paul's labors ibore -abundant fruit. Even _lthehr1e:'! of hthlf syliagoglucle receiver? the ; trut an wit ' im 's w oe ouse. any ` lothers believed also,. and openly confessed, .j their faith in baptism. The" order of ex- Vperience as given -in v. 8 is suggestive: ,.:heard, .-believed, were. baptized. But still ]?there was" opposition. Indeed. the oppos- fltlon doubtless increased with Paul s suc- 3 cess. "Then spake the Lord to Paul in the jnight. That is just like the Lord. Paul fhad had a pretty hard time of it in Cor- iinth, and was to have a still harder time, ,and the Lord appearsand comforts him !and strengthens him for the cominhg trial. `The Lord often spoke_ to Paul in t is way (ch. 22:18; 23:11; 27:23-25). So He is: `ready to speak to us, but we do not need! , ; visions, as Paul did, for we have the writ- l. ten Word. We can carrly the (iiroilce of god` around in our vest poc et _an ave 'm speak to us wnhensoever we will. Listenl to the Lord s message, Benet afraid," that is one of God s favorite messages..God wants no frightened soldiers`? Il`1here iwas to be opposition, but Paul must t row ear ;to -the winds, and speak right out the 5 whole message of God. The Lord gave Paul 1 an all-sufficient reason for not being afraid: jFor I am with thee." Of course, then, `Paul "couldn't be afraid. All Corinth was ,no match for Christ. It is no use telling" man not I30 h ffilld HIPS: vnn nvlvn `urn i8! cizy o1 commerce, architecture, wealth, lux- ury and notorious vimmorality, the city of `vice par excellence in the Roman world. |Here he. first met Aquila and his wife `Priscilla who became very important ` nxe111l)ers,of the Church of Christ. (Sec V. :26; Rom. l6:3.4; 1 Cor. 16:19; 2 Tim. f4:l9.) It was apparently an insignicant ' matter that brought Paul `into contact with t-hem---he was of the same trade. But God uses things just like this for the pro- motion of His kingdom. It would be well would mnlm vnnrn at 41...... 1-..- LL- Golden Text---For I am determined not to know -anything among you, save Jesua Christ. and him crucied. 1 Cor. 2:2. Lesson Text---Ac. 18:1-11. (Read 1 Cor. 2:16; 4:12; 2 Cor. ll:7-9.) Time--A. D. 52. Place--Corinth. Exp'osition.--I. Paul Conducting a Re.- vival in a Jewish `Synagogue in Corinth, 1-6. ' From A-thens. the city of culture, philos~ ophy and politics. Paul -goes to Corinth, the city of architecture, notorious Iimmm-nlitv Hm -it-v -J 5 SUNDAY SCHOOL u-:ss6N I of praying, hymn-singing and religious as- semblies; but He is not a God of busine, of politics and election committee rooms, of interest. dividends, rents and tenement houses. He is God of the-Sabbath; but He is not God of the other days of the weel-:. `Once in the long ago the Syrians came over to ght Israel. Every time they fought -among the hills they were beaten. Then theyisaid, The Lord is a god of the bills, but He is not a god of the valleys." So they enticed the Israelites down into the plain to ght them, feeling sure that Je- hovah. God of the Israelites, could not help His people in the low country. Instead they were -more disastrously defeated than ever. Theyfound too late that Jehovah was a God`-of the valleys` as well as of the hills. And men must eventually learn that God is a God of the work-days as well as LB :1 uou or me cnurcn, of public worship, l of the Sabbath days. He is an Everday . : God. -v- U111 IVBI 5080! -_ social and busines life that you would hate :.o`apply so harsh a word to them. They might not like it. They are the people who will tell you that Business, cannot be run by the Golden Rule"; that Elec- tions are not won by prayers" and that Religion an'd nance won t mix. The thought which lies [behind all these and many other sayings like them is that God is a God of the church, of public worship. Dl'&VlI)2'. hvmn-inlrimr and rnliaimm nu 26 775 525 4:25 28:19, 20; cf. Josh. 1:5, 9; Isa. 41:10; 43:l 1,2). Paul was to s egk in face of all] opposition and not hol his peace, and the; Lord Jesus tells him why: For 'I have: much people in `this city. The Lord hadl people there and the Lord s people are call- ed out by the spoken Word. It was a rea- son, too, for no man setting on Paul to hurt him: there was work that Paul must do, and the Lord would not allow His servant to be -hindered -in His work. The Lord only allows us to be hurt when both we and the work will be helped on thereby. He never allows us to be really hurt (Rom. 8:31; Isa. 54:17; Jer. 15:20, 21). Corinth, with its wealth, its luxury, its proigacy, its vileness, did notcseem like a place where the Lord would have much people. But so .-.a v V Made from similar materials as Neporxset Twins but measure 20 ins. by 10 ins.. less vmaterial, therefore less cost Slate surfaced, red or green. ` V BIRD 8; SON, ummw. Hamilton, Uncado THE SARJEANT co., LIMITED, BARRIE gerniirnnurs Neponset Twin Shingles are two shingleshl one and self-spacing, 20 in. x 12% in. long. 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Let us take courage concerning out I modern cities, and speak and hold not our lpeace. Paul went on speakingkand note ,what he taught. the Word of God," not. ! sociology, though Corinth would have been a rich eld for that; not municipal reform, though Corinth sorely needed that; not lit- erature and `art, though Greece always had a ready ear for that. No, not a word 0! these, -but something innitely better for that day and this day and all days, The Word of God." There is nothing else that will /draw so large a crowd or that will so ` benet the crowd after they are drawn as The Word of God taught in the power of the Holy Spirit. Ask `for Minard s and take no other. Page` Elcvcrf -41