THURSDAY. MAY 17. 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Page THREE
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
RIVER OF THE CAROLINAS:
THE SANTEE by Henry Savage
Jr. (Rinehart $5.00). This is a dis
tinguished contribution to the
Rivers of America Series and one
that should give readers in this
part of the country much pleas
ure, for Mr. Savage loves the
land of which he writes—all of
it from the mountains where the
Catawba and Broad River rise on
down through the Piedmont un
til these rivers become the
Wateree and the Congaree, flow
into Lai 3 Marion and come out
as the Santee, meandering
through the tidewater flats. It is
the whole river system of which
he writes, though in colonial days
Wolmanized^
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it was the lower reaches that left
the richest records with their
planters and pirates, the French
Hugenots and the Carolina trad
ers with their dreams of Empire.
The author has a nice feeling
for the sweep of time even going
back half a billion years to tell
how a mountain range once ran
across middle Carolina until the
wear of weatheV reduced it to
our red piedmont hills of today.
His feeling for natural phenome
na comes out strongly again
when he dramatises the history
of the rice plantations around a
giant cypress’ whose broken trimk
still stands sixty feet high above
the waters of the lower Santee.
But the real heroes of his tale
are the Scotch Irish and their
like who came down the moun
tain valleys just before the Rev
olution, came by the tens of
thousands from Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia seeking land
and freedom, men of strength and
character, the fathers of Daniel
Boone, Kit Carson, John C. Cal
houn, Andrew Jackson. These
pioneers and their sons fought at
King’s Mountain and in many an
other battle. With a few excep
tions, the leaders of the struggle
for freedom in the Carolines
came from this group of relative
newcomers.
Perhaps the most stirring part
of the book is that which deals
with this period but there are also
adequate Chapters on the natural
ists who came and revelled in the
variety of flora and fauna along
the Carolina rivers, on the
Trowth of the cotton plantations
and the reasons for their decline,
on the harnessing of the rivers
for power—27 dams and 49 pow
erhouses, and a most exhilerating
chapter, “Green Gold,” on the
orogress of agriculture and for
estry in recent decades.
A HOUSE IN PEKING by Rob
ert Payne (Doubleday $3.95). Ten
years ago Robert Payne lived for
some months in an ancient Chin
ese palace in a corner of the Tar
tar City in Peking, and that ex-
nerience was the inspiration for
this novel. The palace had been
built in the late years of the
eighteenth century for the Iron-
capped Prince Lien, and it is this
nrince’s' deep and romantic love
for Red Jade, concubine of the
■i^mporer, that forms the poetic
theme of thio book. Along with
this we get a glamorous picture
■^f court life at the height of the
Manchu dynasty when the aged
Emporer Chien Lung still ruled
a preat and prosperous land.
The characters of the book
'land out clear against the back
ground of exquisite rooms and
rourtly ceremonies, but they are
+he characters of another ciyili-
zation. Among Mr. Payne’s
earlier works is the translation
of a book of Chinese poetry, and
we feel he has drawn on his
study of the literature of this era
in recreating the moods and emo
tions of this poet-philosopher-
prince. The resulting interpreta
tion will seem more exotic than
conyincing to most people but it
has its own charm. For a time we
are transported into an era when
life was woyen in a different pat
tern.
Initmational Uniform
Sunday School Lessons
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Pinehurst Deliveries Daily
FAULTS CAUSED DEATHS
Mechanical faults caused 70 of
North Carolina’s fatal automobile
crack-ups last year, the Motor Ve
hicles Department has determined
from a study of accident facts.
Broken down, the agency listed
defects which contributed to the
death crashes as: brakes 22, head
lights 2, rear'lights 2, other lights
or reflectors 1, steering 3, and
tires 27. Thirteen were listed as
“other delects.” In all there were
1,031 fatal accidents.
Legal Notices
NO-nCE
Having this day qualified as
Administrator of the Estate of
Edward York, Sr., this is to notify
all persons having claims against
the said estate to present them
to the undersigned, duly verified,
on or before the 16th. day of
March 1957, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to the said
estate will please make immedi
ate payment.
Dated this 16th day of March
1956.
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A CORNISH WAIF'S STORY,
An Aulobiogiraphy by Emma
Smith (Dutton $3.00). This is a
true story and a remarkable one.
As its discoverer, A. L. Rowse,
the distinguished historisin, says
in his foreward, “it is the realism,
the authentic note of truth thati
makes this book so impressive
and disturbing, and all told so
simply and vividly.”
Emma was the illegitimate
child of the daughter of a blind
Cornish miner. Her earliest years
were spent partly in the work-
house and partly in her grandpa
rents’ cottage when they could
afford to keep her and her little
brother. At five she was handf
over to an itinerant organ grinde.
and his wife. In their grim com
pany she tramped the roads of
Cornwall, singing and begging.
Her memories of these years are
clear and detailed—the dirt, the
hunger, the rags, the sore feet,
the loneliness, but also the bright
flowers in summer gardens, the
moonlit nights, the moments of
kindness when cottage women
gave her milk and cake or a new
pair of stockings, the gayety of
the fairs. At twelve she ran away
and found refuge in a Convent-
penitentiary. Later she went into
service. It was a hard life but
told without bitterness. Like a
sturdy little plant that grows
amid cinders, she found suste
nance where a right-minded wel
fare worker would have said it
was impossible and developed in
to a good wife and mother, a use
ful member of the community.
She does not moralize about this,
but the spirit in which she writes
her plain chronicle is worth pon
dering.
THE ENORMOUS EGG by OUve
Butlerwoith (Little Blown $2.95).
This is a lovely yarn for young
readers, about eight to twelve.
The setting in a small American
town is so realistic, the family
scenes so natural that you live
every bit of it with Nate Twitch-
ell. When one of the Twitchell
hens had a surprisingly large egg
the whole family was interested
but it was Nate who took over
the chore of helping the hen
through the normal hatching
period and then some. Just as he
was«bout to give up a new char
acter appears on the scene, a
scientist who is definitely im-
nressed. Then—^but it will be
more fun to learn for yourself
what came out of that egg.
Baekfround Scriptare: Acts 11:19—
U:24.
Devotional Reading:: Galatians 6:1-10.
Problem Church
Lesson for May 20, 1956
T here are two different kinds
of
problems with children, as
every father and mother know.
One is the kind of problem you
have with a sickly child, who has
allergies, won’t eat, play or sleep
the way a healthy child should;,
perhaps a retarded child. The
other is the kind
,t problem you
have with a child
who seems some
times to be alto
gether too heal
thy; growing too
fast to keep up
with, noisy and
hungry; perhaps
ahead of his grade
in school. The Dr. Foreman
problems of growth may be even
more difficult than the problems
of illness; but all the same, the
problems of development are more
to be desired than the problems
of decay.
Will the World Swallow the Church?
The Christian church at Antioch,
one of the great cities of the world
at that time, had its problems;
but they were all the kind of prob
lem that goes with growth. Dr. C.
R. Erdman in his book on Acts
points out that in this church we
meet with four new things: a new
name for the believers (Chris
tians), a new kind of church (of
which more presently), a new
leadership, and a new center of
missionary activity. Andther new
thing, which indeed was the mother
of the others, was the new kind of
city in which the church there
found itself. Up to the time the
church began in Antioch, the larg
est city where there were sizable
groups of Christians was Jerusa
lem. That was a city which, so to
speak, made religion a specialty.
The long-time religion of Jerusalem
led right up to Christianity. But
what about Antioch. That was a
pagan city, religions of many
kinds flourished there, and none of
them led up to Christianity at all.
If the environment at Jerusalem
was partly favorable to Christian
ity, the atmosphere of Antioch
seemed more than likely to
smother it. Religion in that city
was what it is for some cities to
day—not by any means the most
important interest. Antioch was a
big business town, a central city
for trade and transportation. Peo
ple were much more interested in
getting rich than they were in
religion.
Uncongenial People
One of the problems, new at An
tioch, was whether it would be
possible to include in the same
church groups of persons so dif
ferent as the Greeks and the Jews.
That had not bothered the Pales
tine church, because there the var
ious races and nationalities kept to
themselves. The Jerusalem church
was all Jewish, the Samaritan
church all Samaritan, and so on.
But in big cities people mix and
mingle pretty freely, and so it was
in Antioch. Would different races,
backgrounds, and so on, mix in
one church? Somewhat to Barna
bas’ surprise, maybe, they did.
When Christians are reaUy what
they aim and claim to be, the
church becomes the “fellowship of
the uncongenial.” People who or
dinarily have, nothing in common,
discover that if they have Christ
in common, they are bound by a
tie stronger than any other in the
world.
Leadership
When Barnabas went up there
to Antioch, commissioned by the
church in Jerusalem to look around
and use his judgment about what
to do, we read that he “saw the
grace of God and was glad.” But
the grace of God, in man or church,
does not iron out all the problems.
We have to think. And Barnabas
must have thought long and hard
about one problem which concerns
every church large or small: lead
ership. Barnabas could easily have
taken on a smaller church; but
that one at Antioch was just too
big for one man, any one man.
He could have picked up some
assistants there, no doubt, and
stayed as top man; or he could
have invited in one of the Jeru
salem leaders. But he needed
more than raw “chaplain’s assist
ants.” And the Jerusalem leaders
would have felt pretty strange in
an inter-racial church. So Barna
bas took a rather difficult trip, aU
the way to Tarsus in Cilicia, just
to get a "man he had never forgot
ten; the then unknown (or, if
known, suspected) Saul. The fu
ture of a church depends on its
leadership. Blessed is the church
with a pulpit committee as wise
and far-seeing as Barnabas!
(Based ea eatltnes eepTrlirlited by the
Dlvislen of Christian Ednoatlon, Na
tional Connell of the Chvrohes of Christ
In the IT. S. A. Released bjr Commanlty
Press Service.)
Bookmobile
Schedule
Schedule of the Moore County
bookmobile for the week May 21-
25 ^has been announced as fol
lows:
Tuesday — Colonial Heights,
3:15 to 4; Pinebluff Library, 4:15
to 4:45.
Wednesday—^Mt. Carmel route,
2:15 to 4:30.
Thursday — Carthage Library,
1p.m.; Robbins Library, 2 p.
m'.; talc mine office, 2:30; High
way 27 west, 2:45 to 3:30; K. C.
Maness’s, 3:45.
Friday—W. E. Home’s, 1 p. m.;
R. H. Hendricks, 1:30; Prison
camp, 2 o’clock; Lynn and Wes
ley Thomas homes, 2:15; Lamm’s
Grove neighborhood, 2:30; White
HiU community, 3; across “plank
road” to Mrs. Mclver’s and J. E.
Phillips homes, around 3:30; Dun-
rovin Restaurant, 4 p. m.
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I LEARN FROM WATCHING MAMA
§
The school of experience has a wide
reputation, and many are those who are
proud to be its alumni.
But there is another school, an elemen
tary school. And though it’s less her
alded, it turns out eager scholars year
after year.
It hasn’t really any name, and certainly
no ivy-covered halls. Classes are held in
the students’ own homes. And the tuition
is a wealth of love contributed by pupil
and teacher alike.
the chuhch for au .,,
AU FOR THE CHURCH
' But this is the best preparatory school
in the world. For whatever it teaches has
a place in the life of its graduates forever.
And the most encouraging sign on the
spiritual horizons of America is the
greater emphasis now being placed oVi
the Bible, prayer, and religious educa
tion in the school of “watching mama!”
The Church hi the greatest (ac-
tor on earth for the buUding of
character and goad citizenship It
Without a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilization can
sV-we. There are four ,o^
^tend services regularly and sup
port the Church. They are- (M
'2) For his
children s sake. (3) For the sake
ol his community and nation. (4>
which u ''’®
®“PPoU- Plan to go to
mbTe daity,“‘‘"”'
Book Chapter Verses
Sunday.. Proverbs 31
Monday Mark 2
Tuesday John ,3
Wednesd’yl Timothy 4
Thursday I Peter 2
Friday Ecclesiastes 3
Saturday Mark 13
14-2!
12-17
12-16
18-25
1-8
31-37
4 . I 4 n / f l >—A.
Copyright 195S, Keister Adv. Service. Strubarff. yjy
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, Wednesday,
7:15 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Ave.
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 a.m.
Sunday. 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Yoimg people).
Sunday, 8.00 p^m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Marlin 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 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays,. 8 p.m. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days,'? p,m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2n(i 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.
ST. ANTHONY'S (CathoUc)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Dengos
Sunday masses 8 and lU:3b a m ;
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.m.;
weekday mass at 8 aun. Gonffes-
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Robert L. Same, hfinister
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, AsKb 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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UNITED TELEPHONE CO.
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