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«d dR e cce en oo e e on e en ce en e e en en e 2 n en en en e e e eg en C000 0000 C000 EUrECENICR NCE NRNT NT @o "Thursday, January 14th, 1943 ::"1lllulllllIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIlllIl!lIllllllIllllflllllmllIlIllllIllllllllll!llll||IIIIIIHIIIillllllllfllllilllll"lnlllflllIIIIlflllllIIIIIIlIllllIIIII!lIllbs It‘s rather surprising that there has been no film production of The Pilgrim‘s Progress. It is a book that would lend itself admirably as a film subject, being intensely dramatic in form. Neither blue blood nor a university degree is essential to the production of a literary masterpiece. In fact, they would seem rather the ravineâ€"you know which side we meanâ€"and we hope they‘re still there and blooming now. We wonder how many forked hazel twigs have been cut from these oldâ€"timers by water diviners and treasure hurters in days gone by, and how many wells in Grimsby and back on the mountain have been located by their means? _ Written by expertsâ€"Lewis H. Miller, supervising principal of two of Cleveland‘s junior high schools, and Gertrude C. Hawkins, Burâ€" eau of Educational Research, also of Cleveland, with many illustrations in colour by Earl G. Wright, Chicago Academy of Science, it presents a vast deal of information in painless and highly agreeable form. The friendly apple tree grows in a wide belt across the continâ€" ent from South Carolina to California in the south, and from the Mariâ€" times, through northern Quebec, Northern Ontario, climbs high up in Alberta, then drops to avoid the Rockies, appearingfi again in the apple districts of British Columbia. s Witch hazel is a native North American, and has yellow and brown flowers, slightly fragrant. This is only one of the many shrubs, trees and plants that once flourished on the side and top of the Grimsby Mountain, but have now disappeared through the senseless and thoughtâ€" less squandering of our native heritage, growing right at our door. The lovely trailing arbutus once grew on the mountain side but has been gone for years. The hazel is an interesting ornamental tree for the home grounds, and is stocked by good nurseries. f For the not extravagant sum of fifteen cents we made ourselves a present of a new book from Jamie Baketr‘s store a few days ago. Book of Trees is its name. From map diagrams we note that in only a tiny part of the imâ€" mensity that is Canada will native trees grow in variety. That part is southern Ontario, where we live. Where are the white and red oaks, the elms, the sugar maples, the black walnuts, the hickories, the white pine, the black willow that once grew in such profusion in the Niagara Peninsula? One sometimes wonders if we have put anything better in their place. With the exception of the appleâ€"tree, the wideâ€"spread paper birch, called by poets "the lady of the woods," covers the greatest territory of any tree on the North American continent, and that mainly in Canada. Its southern boundary beginsg in northern New England, dips below the Great Lakes, and takes a slanting line from the "toe" of Lake Michigan in a northwesterly direction up through the prairies to the British Columbia coast. It grows up to the line of perpetual snow, and covers Newfoundland, northern Labrador and Quebec, jumps over Hudson‘s Bay and continues its way through the vast spaces of the southern part of Yukon Territory and the lower half of Alaska. For all we know, it keeps on hopping from island to island in the Aleutians until it steps ashore on the peninsula of Kamchatka. size. Better put your rubbers on, you know how heavy the dew is on summer evenings. To be on the safe side, it‘s best to select seeds listed as "wiltâ€" resistant," or "seeds treated against disease." There are new Tomatoes, new Beets, and a new Lettuceâ€"Burâ€" pee‘s Spearhead, it‘s called. The leaves are sharply cut, like endive. Try some of the new arrivals, of course, just to be neighbourly, but for the main crop we pin our faith to the old true and tried standbys. Did you know that the witch hazel blooms in midâ€"winter? There used to be a few gnarled old trees on top of Grimsby Mountain, across If you like to walk in the garden by moonlight, you will want petunia, nicotiana, they are cousins), and nightâ€"scented stock for fraâ€" grance. And what do you think of garden paths carpeted with ground ivyâ€"Gillâ€"overâ€"theâ€"ground is it‘s cottage garden name? It is a delicateâ€" ly aromatic member of the mint family, and doesn‘t mind being walkâ€" ed on. It won‘t cost anything, being a wildling of nature, and will add to the pleasure of your evening stroll. You‘ll probably find that single petunias have more to give in the way of perfume than the befrilled and bedoubled monsters that have little to commend them but their Stepping over into the floral kingdom, we find a new hardy garâ€" den pink, double and, as a true garden pink should be, highly fragrant. Tt comes in brilliant crimson and in pure white. The first Seed Catalogue has come! Apparently the demands of war have not prevented the propagation of new varieties of vegetables and flowers, for we find many listed as such. Celtuce is one. As the name denotes, it combines the uses ard flavours of celery and lettuce, and may be used raw or cooked. It is said to be easy to grow, and should be ready for use in 90 days. ‘Let‘s see, a packet of 250 seeds for 15 cents (who counts all the seeds into the seed packets, we wonder?). That‘s enough to divide evenly beâ€" tween ourselves and nine other amateur and enthusiastic gardeners, IN WHICH THEâ€"WOMANâ€"NEXTâ€"DOOR LOOKS AT US, AT QOUR TOWN, AND OCCASIONALLY AT THE WYORLD . . ... . "I would a small house and large garden have."â€"Cowley THIRD PAGE T he Seed Catalogues Are Here! "Some Said, John, Print It." T he First Temples Witch Hazel T H E the place of persona'I testimony for Christ. | An Ilustration And Application | _On a battlefield a soldier had an artery of his arm shattered severeâ€" ly by a fragment of a shell, and was fast bleeding to death. A passâ€" ing physician bound up the artery and saved his life, As the physician was leaving, the man creid, "Docâ€" tor, what is your name?" "Oh, no matter," said the doctor. "But Doctor, I want to tell my wife and. children who saved me." So, when Christ comes to us binding up our spirits and saving us, is it any wonder that there is a longing to tell others what He had done for us. ‘There is nothing that can take \ The Heart of the Lesson The Gospel of John is the best handbook on personal work in soulâ€"winning that has ever been written. In it we see the Master Soulâ€"Winner dealing with needy men and women in His own wonâ€" derful manner. To the learned and religious doctor of the law of Moses, He spoke of the need of beâ€" ing born again, to see or enter the Kingdom of Heaven, To the poor, characterless woman, whom He met at the well, He told of living water that could slake the thirst of her longing soul, and led her to reâ€". pentance and faith in Him as thel Saviour. The village of Elstow has not altered out of recognition since John Bunyan lived there. The old church, old in his day, as is the cusâ€" tim of the English Parish church, has changed little; the churchyard is tidier, perhaps. The very bells in the tower are the same that he rang nearly three hundred years ago. The small town hall stands on the same village green, and even part of the cottage where he and his wife An introduction to the lessonâ€" The Historic Setting Between the time that Jacob dug the well to the time when Jesus rested there and met the woman mentioned in our lesson today, nearly eighteen centuries had passâ€" ed. He rested at the well while His deciples went to the city to buy food. It was on their journey from Jerusalem to Galilee, after the Lord had attended the first Passâ€" over following His paptism. What is meant by redeeming time? It is to fill the hours full of the rightest freight, to fill them with the life of thought, feeling, action, as they pass.â€"Clarke, John thought he wrote the book for his own amusementâ€"to pass the weary time while serving his last jail term on a charge of preachâ€" ing out of turn, and the opinions of some of his friends bore this out. However, he was finally moved to have it printed, and the pros and cons of the argument are set forth with quaint humour in The Author‘s Apology for His Book, which takes the place of the more usual Preâ€" face. to be deterrents. Take John Bunyan, for instance. There was a man, a true Englishman if ever there was one, with only the most fragmenâ€" tary of formal educations, following what was in his day the honourâ€" able trade of tinker, who, out of the conflict between persecution on the one side and religious fervour on the other, gave to the world its second bestâ€"seller. If Bunyan had not spent the best part of twelve years in jail it is doubtful if his famous allegory would have been written, Sundgy School TLesson in the ancient art of Mesopotamia, and in view of Hitler‘s persecution of the Jews it is interesting to find that in early times it was used in Semitic art. The Museum‘s largest Buddha figure has a raised Swastika on its chest. This symbol was also used A Swastika hunt through the galleries of the Royal Ontario Museum will prove this. In the Greek galleries you will find this hooked cross on vases that were made about 800 years before Christ and also on a large brooch of the same period. The motif was carried on in the art of the Mediterranean lands and can be seen on a beautiful embroidered curtain that was made on one of the Greek Islands in the 18th cenâ€" tury. If the chase is pursued through the other galleries more examples will be found on Oriental rugs, Indian pottery made in the southâ€"western United States, and worked into the textile and porceâ€" lain designs of China. The fylfot or swastika doesn‘t belong to Hitler or even exclusiveâ€" ly to the "Aryans‘". It is one of the oldest decorative motifs belongâ€" ing to mankind and has been used in many lands through countless years. Until recently it was conâ€" sidered an emblem of good luck just as potent as a fourâ€"leafed clover. sUNDAY, JANUARY 17th Golden Textâ€"St. John 4:36 JESUS WINNING SOoULS THE â€"GRIMSBY _ INDEPENDENT St. John 4:21â€"42. Fylfot Canadian vegetables provide variety, minerals and vitamins in winter meals. Canada‘s Official Food Rules say that two servings of vegetables, besides potatoes are necessary every day for health, with special emphasis on the green leafy and yellow vegetables that are so rich a source of Vitamin A. Raw cabbage, carrot or turnip should be served several times a week in the form of salads. Imports of vegetables have been very much restricted due to wartime conditions, but home grown vegetables can be relied upon to provide Canadians with their two servings a day throughout the winter months. OM OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER Your 16 4 sirtHoay: MUST RECISTER Variety, Value And V itamins Simmer flax seed in water for an hour or more. Add sugar and lemon juice, and serve hot. When you feel a cold coming on, try Flaxâ€"seed Lemonads. This has been commended to you before, but it‘s one of those things that will bear tellingâ€"and acting uponâ€"more than once. To make it, requires 4 tablespoons whole flax seed, 1 quart boiling water, 4 tablespoons sugar (you may substitute honey, if you have it), and the juice of two lemons. The Pilgrim‘s Progress, bound in stout brown leather, fifinted in bldck- face type with long s‘s and illustrated with woodcuts. His name was written on the flyâ€"leaf. lived is still in existence. In a cottage in a small Bedfordshire village not far from Bunâ€" yan‘s Elstow, we once saw and handled one of the original editions of To Ward Off The Common Enemy "Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so: Some said, It might do good; others said, No." se w2 ons Hoaioiek THREE