THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carollnn
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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.
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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
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Important, Pastor
Tells Rotary Club
“Being the Right Size” was the
topic on which the Rev. Hoke
Coon, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, spoke to the Southern
Pines Rotary Club at the club’s
regular luncheon meeting Friday.
Sprinkling his address with
many humorous anecdotes, the
pastor pointed out that the sur
vival of each species of life de
pends on its being the right size.'
“We should all be large enough
to assume personed responsibility
for oim community and church
and not sit back and ‘wait for
George to do it’,” the Rev. Mr.
Coon declared.
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
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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.)
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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.
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