THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1956 THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carollnn PAGE THREE O .-res I I' r 9 By LOCKIE PARKER Some Looks At Books I THE MOUNTAINS OF PHA RAOH by Leonard Cottrell (Rine- hut $5.00). The cimateur archae ologist now has a very readable and complete book on the Egyp tian pyramids to place beside the recent books on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hittites and that most enthralling tale of all, “Quataban and Sheba.” When I say “com plete” I mean, of course, not all there is to be known but a well rounded account for'the amateur, not assuming any special know ledge on his part. Mr. Cottrell has not as much space for the personal adventures of any one expedition as the au thors who wrote about these more recent discoveries—^he has to cover about 2,500 years—^but he knows a good story when he sees one and centers his story about the men who came to see and study the pyramids rather than giving an elaborate account of archaeological findings. , It will be news to most of us that the late Egyptians of the 26th dynasty—about 700 B. C.— already regarded the pyramids as awesome- antiquities, that they took an ardent interest in these monuments of their past already 2,000 yeairs old, explored, tried to decipher inscriptions, made some efforts at restoration. Then with the final decline of Egyptian power and civilization, we hear no more until Herodotus. Shop Sprott Bros. FURNITURE Co. Sanford. N. C. For Quality Furniture and Carpet • Heritage-Henredon • Drexel • Continental • Mengel • Serta and Simmons Bedding • Craftique • Sprague 8z Carlton • Victorian • Kroehler • Lees Carpet (and all famous brands) • Chromcraft Dinettes SPROTT BROS. 1485 Moore St. Tel. 3-6261 Sanford. N. C. He had some good stories as al ways and some first-hand infor mation, but neither the Greeks nor Romans showed any great curiosity about the subject. Next came the Arabs and their tales are as fantastic as the Arabian Nights. What they sought was treasure, but they seem to have imagined more than they found. By the sixteenth century the Europeans were appearing and. irom then on the accounts are fuller, the arguments hotter and the methods of measuring, exca vating, interpreting constantly improved. This period reached a sort of climax in the brilliant Flinders Petrie who devoted his life to the study of the pyramids and added immensely to our knowledge of them and the an cient Egyptians, but important discoveries were also made by several of his contemporaries, and today the work is being car ried on by the Egyptian Depart ment of Antiquities. As late as 1955, and archaeologist named Goneim excavated pyramids centuries older than that of Cheops, discovering jew elry and an alabaster sarcopha gus that appear to have been un touched for fifty centuries. Has everything of importance been found? Have all the ques tions been answered? Mr. Cot trell says definitely not. As an archaeologist he seems as excited by what the future may reveal as by the discoveries of the papst. THE SUDDEN STRANGERS by William E. Barren (Double day $3.95). The author is familiar with two entirely different worlds, that of the theatre and that of the convent, and makes both seem real. It is refreshing to read a modern novel that empha sizes decency and whose char acters are striving for things of the spirit instead of the flesh. William Barrett has not needed to describe the seamy side of life in order to make his novel inter esting. His four leading characters are not perfect human beings. Like all of us they have faults and have experienced failures, but we follow their lives with sympathy. When we finish the book we feel they will have the happiness they deserve. This is a slightly uneven book, but never fails to hold the reader’s interest. —JANE H. TOWNE SHADOW OF THE MON SOONS by WilliamI Manchester (Doubleday $4.50). Love, adven ture and a man who finds him self through these is the theme of this sizeable novel with a background of modern India. You must read the first half to get the EASTMAN, DILLON & CO. Members New York Stock Exchange 105 East Pennsylvania Avenue Southern Pines, N. C. 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Regardless of the physical size of a man, there is no excuse lor being little on the inside, he said. J. A. Lowdermilk of Southern Pines, special agent of the State Bureau of Investigation, is sched uled to be the speaker at this week’s Rotary meeting, in the Country Club at 12:15 p.m. t’ri- day. Guests at last week’s meeting included James R. Cuffman and J. Dawson Clarke, of Pocomore City, Md., Bill Brown of Troy and John J. Sutton of Canastota, N. Y. build-up you need for the second, but it is rather slow going, and the characters at first seem rath er dreary and unsymjiathetic. Then the pace quickens as the district magistrate, an ex-rajah, embarks on an ill-conceived tiger hunt with his two American guests in his remote province at the foot of the Himalayas. The tiger turns out to be a leopard and when wounded by the lady, a sexy girl from Texas, he plays havoc with the hunting party, raids country villages and brings radical changes to one ill-match ed marriage, an ambitious and successful saddhu, the local gov ernment and actually the whole social structure of Chaknagar District. The author handles an intricate plot and a dozen minor characters with such skill that you becon>e completely engrossed in the af fairs of Chaknagar and hang more anxiously over the outcome for the community than for the hero, an American doctor. This is not recommended as a book that will tell you all about modern India, but the mixture of traditional attachments and new ideas is effectively presented and does give one an idea of the com plexities of the situation. THE SWEETEST STORY EVER TOLD by Frank Jupo (Sterling $2.25). All children like sweets, and this crisp account of how primitive man searched and found something to satisfy his sweet tooth and all the develop ments from wild honey to our modern confections will be read with mouth-watering interest by the eight t twelve-year-olds. It contains just the kind of facts youngsters of this age like to col lect and hurl at their elders. The pages are enlivened by two color drawings on every page that tie in closely with the text and amusingly illustrate such points as the Indians introducing the Pilgrims to the sugar maple, for good -mieasure the author adds some picturesque examples of foreign candies little known in this country and some simple rec ipes to try. A very sweet book indeed! BY DR. KENNETH L FOREMAN Backfround Scripture: Acts 9:1-31 Devotional Reading: Acts 9:26-31 Conversion Lesson for May 6, 1956 The rate of domestic mill cotton consumption has increased more than seasonally since Au gust, and the total for the mar keting year is expected to be about 9.2 million bales. mid Pinos Glub Southern Pines Where Golf and Hospitality are Traditional Owned and Operated by THE COSGROVES Julius Boros, Professional Get Better Sleep ON A 'TER MATTRESS Let us make your old mattress over like new! Any size, any type made to order. 1 DAY SERVICE MRS. D. C. THOMAS Southern Pines Lee Bedding and Manufacturing Co. LAUREL HILL, N. C. Makers of “LAUREL QUEEN” BEDDING C ONVERSION is a religious word, but it wasn’t originally, and isn’t exclusively so now. We have all heard of people converted to communism, or from it. A young man drives a convertible,—^that is, a car which can be changed from open to closed, or back again. A business man converts a factory from war produc- : tion to peace pro- | duction. Conver sion, in short, means change. But as Christians use the word, they do hot mean just any kind of change. Every Dr. Foreman Christian’s life, if it is a growing life, is a changing life. People who never become Christians at aU may change their lives in vari ous ways. The specially Christian meaning of “conversion” refers to the basic change from being non- Christian, sub-Christian or un- Christian to being a Christian. Was Paul Peculiar? Probably the most famous con version in the history of Chris tianity was that of the man who later became the Apostle Paul. He was called Saul at the time, whUe as for being an apostle, he was on the contrary something rather worse than a “bad egg. ' He was an apostle of hate, prose cuting and persecuting people for no other sin or crime than merely being Christians. His conversion was sudden, spectacular and dra matic in the extreme. It/was so impressive that to this day there are some who think that if you are not converted in the way in which Paul was converted, you can hardly have been converted at all. On the contrary, the one God who works in Nature in so many varied ways, works in men in var ied ways too. Just as there are no two people exactly alike, so it would be surprising if any two conversion-experiences were ex actly alike. Paul was a special case, and God dealt with him in a special way. One might almost say God had to hit Saul on the head and knock him down, to bring him to his senses. There were many features of that conversion that seldom if ever occur in other cases. From ... to • • • First and aU-inclusve, in the universal features of Saul’s con version, is the fact that this ex perience meant a turning around. His life pointed in a different di rection ever after. Conversion means turning, and turning means a new course, a new destination, a new road. He turned from a negative to a positive life,—from being against, to ^ being for. His entire energy had been spent in hating Christ and Christians. Aft erwards his entire energy was de voted to the service of Christ and Christians. Before his conversion Saul was chiefly noted for his eagerness to tear down, After wards one of his favorite words, and favorite occupations, was ‘ ‘building up. ” He was turned from pride to humility, from trying to get what he wanted, to trying to do what Christ wanted. Before, he was a masterless man; after wards, he himself often said of him self that he was a “slave” of Christ. But it was precisely in be ing body-and-soul devoted to Christ for life, here and forever, that he found the freedom from evil in his own life for which, as a master less man, he had sought in vain. In these and in other ways, the con version of Saul was not peculiar. All true conversion is a turning, from a negative, empty, destruc tive and fruitless life, to the “life in Christ,” a positive, loving, con structive, brotherly life with much fruit of service. The Thing,. Not the Word The word “conversion” occurs only once in the -whole Bible (King James translation)—Acts 15:3. All the words together, like “convert,” connected with this, make only fourteen out of the thousands of words in the Bible. But the thing is there, and that is the important point. One way of putting it is sug gested by the story in Acts 9, which of course does not use the word “conversion.” What, happened there? Saul came into contact with Jesus; and instead of hating him any more, he worshipped him. He called him “Lord.” That’s conver sion. But not all of it. Paul in later years told this story twice (that we know of—there must have been other times): Acts 22 and 26. He said about it: “I was not disobedi-, ent to the heavenly vision.” Con version is response to the touch of (3od. Conversion begins when we first take -rders from Him. (B&sed on oatline oopyrirhted by the Division of Christian Edneatton* Na* Uonal Connell of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) Bookmobile Schedule May 7-11; Tuesday—Union church route with stops at Darnell, Briggs and Bailey homes, 2:30 to 3:15; paved road into Vass with home stops, 3:15 to 4; Vass, 4 to 4:20; W. F. Smith’s, 4:30; Niagara, 4:45. Wednesday — Pinehurst, 1:45; Taylortown, 2; Eagle Springs at Postoffice, 2:30; West End, 3:15 to 4:30; Branson home near Power station, 4:40. Thursday—Carthage Library, 2 p. m.; Inman home, 2:30; High- falls, 3 to 4. Friday—Lakeview at Bob Gul- ledge home, 4 to 4:30. Normal driving speed is the speed around which most ve hicles travel. Any speed that is abnormally higher—or lower— creates a condition where lots of passing is necessary. A slow driv er creates this hazard as does a fast driver. DRIVE CAREFULLY — SAVE A LIFE! SALES — RENTALS — BUILDING GEORGE H. LEONARD, Jr., President JULIA G. STEED Phone 2-2152 MacKenzie Building SOUTHERN PINES. N. C. Have your Winter Clothes Cleaned and Stored for the Summer at The Valet D. C. JENSEN Where Cleaning'and Prices Are Better! Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday % People who see the Light that shine's beyond the present shadows can walk safely along the way of life. Those who stumble in darkness and fear are the people who lack the vision of faith. A man named Saul of Tarsus groped in the dark ness of the pagan world. His heart was filled with hate and he saw them stone the servants of God. Then he saw the Light and became a new man. The skies of life are often filled with clouds and storm. Strife and hatred, selfishness and meanness, suffering and despair, rob the day of its brightness and fill the world with woe. But those who have the penetrating vision of faith need fear no harm. If they keep their eyes fixed on the Light that lies beyond the shadows and trust in God, they may walk in the perfect security of faith. The blackness of night cannot quench the Light of faith; the sweeping storms adversity cannot blot it out. It shines on undimmed into the perfect day, when the storms depart and the shadows fade away. the chuhch for AU , . . AU FOR THE CHUROI fac- c'*’® tuilding of character and good citizenship It Withon.''®^°?® values. Without a strong Church, neither survi’v'e°®^Th”°'' can sound alfend ®''®'’'’ P®’‘S°n should attend services regularly and bud- port the Church. They <2) For his chiWren s sake. (3) For the sake of his community and nation. (4) whll ®“u® Church itself, which needs his moral and ma terial support. Plan to go to Bible da’tr'"^'" ^®“‘' Book Sunday .. Acts Monday.... Matthew a Tuesday . . .Paalms 27 Wednesday John i Thursday . John 3 Friday I John 1 Saturday.,. Kevelation 21 Chapter Verses 9 1-9 Copyright 1953, Keister AdT. Serrice, Str&sburg, Va. | BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHUR(7H (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, Wednesday, 7:15 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH New Hampshire Ave. Sunday Service, 11 a.m. Sunday School, 11 a.m. WedMsday Service, 8 p.m. Reading Room in Church Build ing open Wednesday 3-5 pjn. THE CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOWSHIP (Ck)ngregalional) 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 (Young people). Sunday, 8:00 p.m., 'The Forum. EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal) Martin Caldwell, Rector Holy Communion, 8 a. m. (First Sundays, 11 a.m.) Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. Morning Prayer and Sermon, 11 a. m. Guild meetings—first and third Mondays: St. Mary’s, 3 p. m.; St. Anne’s, 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 pan. Missionary meeting, first and third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers, second Thurs days, 7 p.m. 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. Wbfhen of the Church meeting, 8 p.m., second Tuesd^. Midvweek service Thursday at 8 p.m. ST. ANTHONY'S (CathoUc) Vermont Ave. at Afllto Father Peter M. Dengc# Sunday masses 8 and 1&:30 ajn.; 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 CKURCH Robert L. 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