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FEBRUARY 17th;, 1870.

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Rev. R. G. FAIRBAIRN'S BIGHTEENTH

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it is a fa.ir ly g~ indicatio~ both
Chapet "n~ has filled that office ever ~i nc6, inh iS popularr- ty and t.he effi Ciency of ~IS work. c,'ea.r;ing t ho membership from 500 to something
That. . he can la.y ·c la.im to ooth of these no ne like 660
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who knows he Rc\t.R.G.Falrb.:'lII'Il , M .•-\. , pastor t he vill ag"" of R t ' -h'
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o f Klllg s-rOO,d Ba.pt.lst Chapel. Will "POSSIbly doubt W~. n ' • St, II
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for one moment...~· ~k !<' ai ,'bairll reaches his 18th nn I ti ' :
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lSSlOn .,.. 1011 1n
am'llve~Ty th iS iweek, ami IS Widely' popular not I S',I--e"
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n.nd t he Young l\~t'ln:5! Institute now .

' number s rwer 150 members.

The King's.road.

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of hOTl o m' numbers 237 . of whom 33 lell
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i church and the. Yiilage$ numberr 700. . :

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Tho , chnr'-;h ill Kin g's-road dates from 1640. and
t he I'ebfl!'d,;;: of th e church are bot.b interestin,!l" and
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fi e lZl C1 r1ent refers to a motioj bv a
Illemh~r of the chm'ch in, Puritar da.ys t hat :.l ,:ote
of (:e~ II>lll'c . l~ ,,~, ~.~ed aga lllst. t h, then min ister for
wem'lIl g. hiS hall' too long. However, t he motion
fl1l11HI !lIothin g 'hilt tlisrav~lUr.
much so that the
1ll00'erj n f tbe lllotion was excJmmunicat~.
He
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lated ~ r~nted in !'o8.ckclot.lL and lashea and wos rea.dn\it~d to the church on promise of good behn\· io)~ r. Tiiere. is only olle other pastnT in t.he
hist p7. of ,the cflUrch who h~s ~ten the present
pastoI,"'s record of sel"'\'ice, viz .. the Rev. J . DaNis.
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for 29 years, and Mr. Fairb:Urn

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Mr, and Mrs, Job Theobald. of 79.
Reading, ceteb,'ah,dl their
:Vedding on T uesd;y in last week, Mr, J I ~eobald has lived
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whole of his life in Readin,g, He commenced bu.i~e.s as , a gr~cer in
where the General Post Off,ce now stands. and at Ithf present hme '

~olden

hus~~es~; ~f . wholesa le

potato

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has I 1 eye upon this record.

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Mr, Theobald is a well known member 01 the Li~etal Club and serves
Committe~" The whole family 01 Mr, and MrJ- Theo~~ld. comprising nine
chddren (ftve sons and tour daught~rs). are

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to the members. or h is .o, in church, but with
all with whom he ha s c'ome
contact, Entering
Bristol CoUkge as a student i~ 1887 he re~:::lined
there until l~ , in that year goi ng to Salem,
successful time
.Cheltenham.I There he had a Iver1.~
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n.t the Cha~1 J accommodating I some 1,600 people , '
The j~~urch membership rose Iduring hi !'; ministry
from 500 to BOO. In 1902 Mrl Fairbairn came tb

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performing in the Drury I_'IIlt' Pa' '' ,,,,,ime . " Cind erella, " a nd who

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Missionary Committee f or some 22 years .
one revie"'$' one's life, rema.rked Mr.
to OUt! representative, " it's re;m.a:rkable '
are the oU.blanding episodes' if one~ h~
happy nnd cont~nte d life. ' If one meets
cata..strnphe or two----w~H--" shrugging
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all in the day's work. and was in·

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whi ch has had a. phe - ' .
1I0 1l1.el~al run li t two Empn £!s and
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Hea di ll g. next week.
P r evious til tLis come dy
hl'ought to En g' und by Robelt
ne idge <Iud ) [ol lil-:on Kldd It
rl:c...,rd lireakmg run in , ~l ew

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tlJYs. But the in('l~sion of young;;ters dues not make .. Daddies" . a
child" ell's p lay. It j ~ for everybody j
a.nd th~ who go to see t his comedy
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in th eir mouths. : " D a ddies" is
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is that " c'-cry mall ,\ owes the world
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'(JJte phot og l'ap h 'was tak en on .\louday e,·.eli'i"ng
in \me: Large 'llOW Ii Hall a.t th e .coll c.:lusion ~f t..he .
seq.JIl"d ·collcert (Jf th e ReH di ng: TCm JleTIl~CC C horal
So~ietr. wh en t he pl"Ogr a mm o

W1l "; . di ffe re nt fro m
t ha t o f t lte pl'cviou s week , SeaLcd in t he irunt
I'OW are )[(". _-\, "'.. :\ I OSE , tha ur ill ian t loca l
music ian a ud r.;o nuuct or, the M nyu r nnd ) In.y ol"csS
(Dr. a lld llr:s. G, S. ALnllll ). )liss )in rgn ret
Ban'ison , :\Ik s E ls ie I.onghur!l t. :\Jr. A P(t n Fr.i mt',
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hel' Illnce 'was' fill ed,
admirably so, by ~-U ss
success, The'
L onghUl"i:tl , who' scored n.
.w. he r soloii)t8 we.'e in
"Voice, especial ly
AIla.n F ra me , whose I rich t-e nor voice was

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Th e fi rst hillf o f t.h e programm e , a s on the p re v iOllS e\' eni ng's ped orm'nn 'l e. was that benutlfu l

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c:tutat a of S. '--U""U Je.'
rell .c."" ""eal credit

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where it w~s played to pa cked houses
. ev ery night for over a. Jear, a nd
. dllting u. ~ Iump season when other
t.heatres . were coDl}lelled t o close
their doors for lack of patronage,
There is an extraordiwll",- wea lth
comedy runni'ng throu gh "from~ tbe
r ise to the fa ll of t he curta in j th e re
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hCilrJ t o t he fu ll c8t ilU\,.urrge, and who" as re-

Japa n ," based on a.

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Crod~et in .. ~addiea."9

Nearly every line in the play jl!
hum orous ; in fact , the :::lu d ieJlce nre
kept laughing · until their si des liter.

a lly ache,

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" Daddies" is a. comedy

,which :requires. the very best acting,
not- buffoonery; "and so Robert

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chosen such a caste .as; is seldom seen
in the prol""i nC'eS.
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