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FRIDAY. JANUARY 21, 1955
THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
NOBLE SAVAGE, the Life of said to have sprung.” It was a
Paul Gauguin by Lawrence and radical departure from the Im-
Elizabefh. Hansom. (Random | pressionist school and, as with
$5,OOJ. This is a tragic story and j many another original genius,
yet a triumphant one, and the the public neyer caught up in his
co-authors have done handsome-1 lifetime.
ly by Gauguin. With access to He was always poor and died
considerable new material, in- j miserably on a remote island in
eluding family letters, they have' the South Seas. After his death,
given us a credible and sympa- prices of his paintings and sculp-
thetic character to replace the' ture rose rapidly. The skeptical
somewhat gaudy popular picture wife found him a better bread-
of Gauguin as the great Bo-1 winner dead than alive; so Paul
hemian—the prosperous stock Gauguin had his belated triumph
broker who got ..fed up with it there, too.
all, including his middle cl^s^ THE SULTAN AND THE
family, threw it over for the life! LADY by Erik Linklaler (Har-
of an artist in the Parisian cafes,' courl $3.50), This is light enter-
then went to Tahiti and lived an tainment that has the sparkle of
even more exotic life among the champagne the Sultan was so
natives. | fond of drinking. Eric Linklater
Here we have instead a pror | has well sustained his reputation
PAGE THREE
for wit and irony in this novel of
the South Seas. Characters are
happily contrasted, the depend-
foundly serious man with con
flicting traits of character. Per
haps his mixed ancestry was re
sponsible. He himself liked to able British civil servants with
think so: for with his father def-j their fixed codes of conduct, the
initely French middle class, Paul - undependable but delightful Sul-
Gauguin claimed descent on his tan with an English education but
mother’s side from the Spanish no English prejudices, and the
nobility, a Vicero-y of Peru and - mass of primitive people on a
even the Polynesians, “I come mountainous tropical island, who
from the Borgias of Aragon. . .
but I’m also a savage.”
In any case, two stories run
side by side in this book, though
it deals with the life of one man,
and the authors have tried to
show from intimate letters how
genuine both were. There is the
young man who came to Paris in
his early twenties, made a success
on the Bourse, married a Danish
girl of good family, prospered,
had five children, bought paint
ings, was a “Sunday painter”
himself.
This young man had a bitterly
tragic life; for when he gave up
business to- devote himself to
painting he believed he would be
successful at that, too—commer
cially successful—and he was not.
His wife left him, went back to
Denmark with the children, but
he grimly kept on. He did not be
lieve the separation was final, he
continued to write to her through
the years of deep poverty, pre
dicting always that soon he would
be able to sell his pictures, reunite
his family and prove his genius to
the skeptical wife.
The other young man, the ar
tist, did better. He had his ups
and downs, but sometimes he was
the center of an admiring circle,
a few critics recognized his power
and originality, and, even more
important, he felt his own
strength growing, his own vision
of what he wanted to do—could
do—coming clearer.
In 1888 he painted “Vision after
-the Sermon,” of which the au
thors remark, “the picture from
|which modern painting may be
have temporarily deserted all
normal occupations to await the
arrival of a heavenly airplane
loaded with earthly luxuries as
promised by a local sorcerer.
This situation creates problems
for the civil service and, as if this
were not enough, they find that
the Sultan has given refuge to a
lady that they were about to ar
rest as a Communist. The story
picks up pace as the tribesmen
gather in hundreds in the high
land valley of Maipani, and the
gc-vemment officials plus a wan
dering a.nthropologist join their
local representative at his Guest
House, and the Sultan arrives
with champagne—all waiting ner
vously to see what will happen.
Plenty does. It is quite a story.
RECOLLECTION CREEK by
Fred Gipson (Harper $2.75). This
is a flavorsome book with many
good stories of the Huckleberry
Finn variety. It deals with one
year in the life of a boy in the
dry farming west, a land of mes
quite and cowhands. It is full of
salty rural humor, occasional
pathos, and the kind of stories
that are told around a country
neighborhood for years but do
not often get into print.
, The longest tale, which in its
several episodes weaves through
the whole book, has to do with
Grandpa Creech’s pursuit of the
phantom turkey gobbler. The two
beys, through whose eyes we see
this world of yesterday, took no
active part in this particular
drama, but they were prime mov
ers in several extraordinary
events that transpired along Rec-,
SALES — RENTALS — BUILDING
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GEORGE li. LEONARD, Jr., President
Hart Building Southern Pines
Phone 2-2152 ^ ’
Dedication New
Freight Yard At
Hamlet Scheduled
Dedication ceremonies for the
multi-million doUar freight classi
fication yard of the Seaboard
Railroad at Hamlet will take
place on January^ 31, it has been
announced by John W. Smith
president of the railroad.
Governor Luther Hodges will
be among the distinguished
guests present.
Said President Smith: “We look
forward to having with us (Gov
ernor Hodges and other state and
local business and political lead
ers who will participate in the
ceremonies and inspect this new
est and most modern facility, in
the planning, construction and
operation of which we take pride
not only because of its value to
the railroad industry, but also be
cause of its contribution to the
welfare of the community and the
state.”
Luncheon Planned
Actual dedication ceremonies
are scheduled for 2 o’clock in the
afternoon. This will be preceded
by a luncheon at 12:30 p. m. in
the dining car of a special train
at the passenger station for Sea
board directors and officers and
guests.
The Hamlet School band will
take part in the ceremonies.
The freight classification yard,
which cost an estimated $7,500,-
000, went into operation at Ham
let oh November 29, after two
years of construction work.
ollection Creek that year after
the Squaw Springs schoolhouse
burned down and small boys were
left to their own devices. 'There
was fun, there was trouble, there
was a lot of growing up in it.
People who grew up in the
same era should enjoy this book,
as they laugh over Hopper and
Jay and their escapades and re
call similar instances of their own
youth.
Legal Notices
NOTICE
State of North Carolina
County of Moore
The undersigned having duly
qualified as the Executrix of the
Estate of Della Johnston, decea.'--
ed, late of the above named coun
ty and state, all persons having
claims of whatsoever nature
against the said Della Johnston,
deceased, are hereby notified to
exhibit the said claim or claims to
thd undersigned on or before the
27th day of December, 1955, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to the said Della Johnston,
deceased, are hereby requested to
pay the said indebtedness to the
undersigned immediately.
This the 27th day of December,
1954.
(s) Alva Lenora Busick Naile,
Executrix
W. Lamont Brown,
Attorney. d31j7,14,21,28f4
SP
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Scripture: John 14:25-26; 16:7-15;
Acts 2:1-4; 3:1—4:31; Romans 8:26-27;
I Corinthians 2:9-16; Galatians 5:22-23.
Devotional Reading:: Romans 8:26-30.
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Power of the Spirit
Lesson for January 23, 1955
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notice;
state of North Carolina
County of Moore
The Undersigned, having duly
qualified as Ancillary Executor of
the Estate of Elizabeth Simmons
Vale, Deceased, late of the above
named County and State, all per
sons having claims of whatsoever
nature against the said Elizabeth
Simmons Vale, Deceased, are
hereby notified to exhibit the said
claim or claims to the undersign
ed, or W. Lamont Brown, South
ern Pines, North Carolina, process
agent, on or before the 27th day
of December, 1955, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
the said Elizabeth Simmons Vale,
Deceased, are hereby requested to
pay the said indebtedness to the
undersigned or said process agent
immediately.
This the 27th day of December,
1954.
(s) ALFRED ELY,
Ancillary Executor.
d31j7,14,2i;28f4c
Drs. Neal and McLean
VETERINARIANS
Southern Pines. N. C.
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lay. Chronic bronchitis may develop.
Get a large bottle of Creomulsion and
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IV/J OST Christians have wished,
at some time or other, that
Jesus of Nazareth were still on
:his earth, Uving at a post office
address, perhaps with a telephone,
certainly available for interviews,
for lecture and preaching engage
ments. There are
so many questions
we should like to
ask him, so many
debates in and
outside the church
that he could set
tle with a word.
This feeling may
well have been
strong in the
minds of Jesus’ Dr. Foreman
personal and closest friends as the
shadows were closing around him
at the close of his life. Yet Jesus,
although aware of this feeling,
tried to make the disciples feel
that it was best all around that
he should not continue living as
he had done for three years among
them.
Who Is the Spirit?
Entirely aside from the impor
tance of the Atonement, it was
best that Jesus should, as he put
it, “go away.” Existing as all hu
man beings do in a body, subject
to aU the laws of nature, he could
be in only one place at one time.
But, once away from this earth
physically, he could be present
spiritually in ways not limited by
space and time. Sometimes he
said the Father would “send” the
Spirit, sometimes he said he him
self would send the Spirit. (Com
pare John 14:26 with 16:7) By
the Spirit men would be linked
with Christ and the heavenly
Father. As Paul was to write
later, out of years of Christian ex
perience, “through him (Christ)
we have access in one Spirit to
the Father” (Eph. 2:18). So this
divine Spirit, wholly God though
not the whole of God, is some
times called the Spirit; of Christ
and sometimes the Spirit of God.
Paul even says once that the liord
“is” the Spirit (II Cor. 3:17).
Many theologians of the present
day express it this way: The Holy
Spirit is God at work in the lives
of men. The Holy Spirit is sent
from God, but also the Holy Spirit
is God. Theology has devised a
great many complicated ways of
explaining this — and the truth
may be even more complex than
theologians think. But the simple
and important truth is that wher
ever the Spirit lives in a human
heart, there God lives,—no faint
reflection or distant emissary of
God but God himself.
The Spirit in Us
Now there is a question that
will naturally come up in the
minds of thoughtful people. Is not
God everywhere? How can he
come or go? How can he ever
be absent from any place or any
person if he is infinite? The Bible
speaks of the Holy Spirit “com
ing,” “descending,” being “sent;”
also of the Spirit’s being “taken”
or “departing.” If the Holy Spirit
is God at work in the hearts of
men, how can the Holy Spirit go
and come? The full answer to
such questions only God himself
knows. But we can get a glimpse
of the truth from what is said in
the Bible. (Of course a full study
of these deep matters is not for
a short column like this.) God is
indeed everywhere by his power
and his providence. In him we
live and move and are, as Paul
said. We stick to that. But God
has so made man that we can
open or close the door even to
God. God does not force himself
on. any man. As friend, as one
who transforms life, who brings
comfort and purity and power, he
comes only where welcomed. It
is possible to grieve the Spirit,
yes to drive God out.
The Spirit for Us
But it is also possible, a glori
ous fact, that where the Holy
Spirit lives in a human life, that
life is transformed into the very
image of the divine Lite. The
Holy Spirit is the Life-changer. In
us—and also for us. One of the
most remarkable, one of the most
uplifting truths we know about
the Spirit is that when we pray,
though our prayers are limited
by our ignorance and tainted with
our own self - interest, the Holy
Spirit prays with us, prays for
us. Over the dull monotone of our
stumbling prayers can be heard
in heaven the melodic overtones
of the Spirit’s pure desires for us.
Our noblest aspiration still is
short of God’s aspiration for us.
This does not mean we can afford
to be careless about prayer. It
does mean that as we reach up
to God we find that he has first
been reaching down to us. It is
because of the Spirit in us that
we can pray at all;
(Based on ontllnes copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Cooneil of the Churches of Christ
In the U. S. A. Released by Commanity
rc:-;3 Service.)
Schedule of the Moore County
bookmobile for the week, Janu
ary 24-28 has been announced as
follows:
Monday—Through Niagara to
Union church with stops at Kelly,
Darnell and Briggs homes, 2 to
3; paved road to Vass with home
stops, 3 to 4; Vass, 4:15 to 4:40; W
F. Smith’s, 4:45.
Tuesday — Highfalls school,
10:45 a. m.; Highfalls town, 11:15
to 11:30.
Wednesday — Jackson Springs:
W. E. Graham’s 2:15; postoffice,
2:30; West End, 3:15 to 4:30; Bran
son home at power station, 4:40.
Thursday — Vineland school,
10:20; Eagle Springs school, 10:45;
Elise High School in Robbins.
12:15 to 1:15; Carthage Library.
2:30.
Friday — Taylortown, 4 p. m.;
Pinehurst at Community Church.
4:30.
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When I was a girl they used to say that
bread was the staff of life. It’s an expres
sion that you still hear, of course, but not
so much as you once did.
True, there was something tantalizing
and wonderful about the smell of home-
baked bread wafting in from the kitchen.
And how the men folk loved it, after a hard
day at work in the fields.
But as I grew older, I began to realize
that neither bread nor anything else you
can see, touch, and smell is the staff of life.
Sound funny? Well, think it over, and
you’ll see what I mean. Our greatest strength
comes from the things that aren’t tangible.
The spiritual things, I guess you’d call
them.
My own staff of life has been the Church.
It has supported me when I have needed
it the most. When my children came along,
I taught them to believe that the Church
was their real staff of life. In this belief
they have found hope, solace, and comfort,
just as I have.
FOB AIL .
Xracte®°al!d go
a storehoul^°,°‘^ 'ifeenship. 'l,
Without a stroorr values.
democracy '’«'her
survive. There
reasons why everv “““"d
°<tend services rt Ju£7°" ®'’°'r>d
P°rt the Church "“P-
P°!;^his own eaie
Child.-en's sate ni
his community
which needs his
support pT°™‘ “"d »P-
church re^larlv ‘° 'o
Bible daily, ^ read your
Day
Sunday.
Monday..
Tuesday.
Wedn'sd’y
Thursday
Friday....
Saturday.
Verse,
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Luke
John
Philippian,
•rhilippiang
1-17
1-16
1-15
1-8
35-45
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8-13
Copyriebt 1956. Keister Adv. Service. Strssbvrg, Ve. ‘
BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Minister
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Wor
ship service, 11 a.m. Women of
the Church meeting, 8 p.m. Mon
day following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wedne^ay,
7:15 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Aye.
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP (Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 ajn.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Yo.ung peopled
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie. Minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3rd
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 a.m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at
8 p.m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship
11 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.m.
Evening Worship, 8 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednes
day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p.m.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Charles V. Covell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (except
first Sunday).
Church School and Family Ser
vice, 9:45 a.m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a.m. (Holy
Communion, first Sunday).
Wednesday, 10 a.m.. Holy Com
munion.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.m.;
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.m.;
weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confes
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Robert L. Bame, Minister
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, Ashe Street)
Church School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
day at 8 p. m.
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