THURSDAY. AUGUST 30, 1956
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Bocks
AND WALK IN LOVE. a
Novel Eased on Ihe Life of ffae
Apostle Paul Ey Henrietta Buck
master (Random $3.95). This
book is worth more than a casual
reading. It stands out among
“Biblical novels” as being con
cerned with fundamental spirit
ual and religious problems rath
er than just using colorful char
acters and backgrounds from the
Scriptures as a start for domestic
drama or struggles for power The
author’s theme is the more com
pelling as both she and her pro
tagonist, Paul, are keenly con
scious that this was the moment
in time when the infant church
was taking form—a form which
would influence world history.
First came the struggle with
Judaism itself—the slippery
High Priest Caiaphas and honest
men of conservative minds who
declared the preaching of the
Nazarenes to be blasphemy. Sec
ond and more dangerous was, the
struggle with those Nazarenes
who saw Jesus only as a new
prophet in Israel offering salva
tion to “the Chosen,” or those
who would accept Jehovah and
the Jewish laws. For centuries
these people had followed their
one God, not worshipped idols as
the pagans about them, lived dis
ciplined and orderly lives, and
this further enlightenment had
come to them. “We are the gate.
There is no other entrance.” But
Paul cried, “We* are upright by
faith in Christ, not by doing what
the law commands, for all that
can defile a man are the thoughts
of his own heart. It is hard for
us to realize at this date how
sharp this struggle was, how
hard the decision for good Jews
like Peter, James and John, and
it is a credit to Miss Buckmas-
ter’s skill as a novelist that she
makes this crisis so real and
poignant.
M!uch of the turmoil, of course,
revolves around Paul. His history
as a persecutor of Christians and
his conversion by revelation are
well known, but the author with
true creative imagination has
shown the developing youth and
the influence which made him a
man who loved the Law and had
to behave as he did in the perse
cutions that dispersed the Naza
renes. Then she shows his grow
ing horror of the violence involv
ed, his disgust with his associ
ates, his doubts until he was ripe
for revelation. But this was only
the beginning. Paul, the aristo
cratic intellectual, the lover of
Isubtle arguments and civilized
surroundings, the privileged
Roman citizen, had a long way
to go and no precedent to fol
low. His sojourn in the wilder-
iness, his missionary journeys
into remote lands, his mingling
with the poor and debased, his
agonized doubts and search for
guidance are convincingly told.
No Christian can read this book
and not have a more profound
respect for his heritage and deep
gratitude to the man who de-
Rianded so uncompromisingly
that the Gospel should be sent
speedily to all suffering human-
(ity without any distinction of
color or creed. We know how he
went himself to the gentiles and
preached the love of God and the
love of man to slave and free,
women and men, learned and ig
norant, how he finally pitted his
faith against Rome, the power
that pervaded every corner of
the known world, and said that
allegiance to Christ came first.
as president of the General As
sembly. Two contributions in this
book seem to be especially val
uable. -The first is I>is warning to
these new nations tliat “it is per
ilously easy in this world for na
tional independence to be more
fiction than fact” and his analysis
of the major dangers to it at
home. The second is his candid
summary of “Asian criticisms of
.America.” He does not subscribe
to many of^these, but he tells us
openly as one friend to another
what we are up against. Most of
all he urges us not to underesti
mate the importance of this ris
ing tide of peoples who until re
cently were colonial subjects and
inarticulate; for the delegates at
Bandung represented More than
half the human family.
THE MEANING OF BAN
DUNG by Carlos P. Romiulo
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deeply concerned over the affairs
of countries that only recently
were remote lands of legend or,
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even the national conventions
did not crowd off the front page.
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great deal about. what the new
nations of Asia and Africa are
thinking and what the variations
of opinion were in that first his
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Bandung on April 18, 1955. The
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to the Congress as head of the
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the final communique of the
Conference giving the official
statement of principles on which
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Lesson for September 2, 1956
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IT OVE your neighbor” is called
^ the ”Royal Law” once in the
Bible. It becomes and is the royal
law only when all of it is meant:
Love yom neighbor as yourself.
Everybody loves his neighbor a
tiny bit. At least you don’t want to
see his house burn down, and if
you heard that
his children had
been eaten by an
alligator, you
would have (it is
hoped) some
tinge of regret.
But loving your
neighbor as your
self — ah, that is
something quite a
lot harder to do.
But the Royal Law demands that
we love our neighbor, any neigh
bor, all neighbors. This is a Royal
Law, as James called it, because it
is the law by which the King of the
Universe operates. To be sure, we
cannot say that God has “neigh
bors” just as we have; but when
God was here on earth, focused
(you might say) in one person,
this Son of God, truly royal if ever
a man was, lived by the Royal
Law.
No Exception;!
James writes that keeping the
law means keeping all of it. To fail
in one point means failing, period.
We can apply this to the Royal
Law. If we are (as Jesus called us)
sons and daughters of the Most
High, then we lare under a kind of
regal obligation to live as befits
our high privileges. The more truly
we live as children of God, the less
we can afford to make exceptions,
on our own, to the royal law of
love. But most of us do make ex
ceptions. Jesus knew what they
are; so did James. Jesus mentions
people who love those who love
them in return. We all know the
type—maybe we are the type!—the
person who treats his friends like
princes and other people like dirt;
the family who are very warm
hearted and devoted to one another
but whom the minister has a very
hard time enlisting in any project
for community betterment; the col
lege student who is a very loyal
fraternity brother but who hardly
knows, and doesn’t care to know,
the student without money to
spend. Jesus’ parable of the good
Samaritan showed up two men who
made exceptions to the Royal Law.
The priest must have loved his
neighbor priests; but the beaten
stranger was no priest, so this
priest didn’t bother with him. ’The
Levite must have had friends; he
belonged to a class of professional
philanthropists. But Samaritans
were not on the Levite’s list of
Worthy Causes. So he wasn’t both
ered. As for the Samaritan, there
was every reason to cross off that
battered stranger by the roadside.
By every Samaritan standard, he
didn’t “belong.” But the Samaritan
kept the Royal Law without mak
ing exceptions.
For Whom Do We Pray
One way the reader can test how
well he himself keeps this Royal
Law, is to reflect on his own pray
ers. We get around to more people
in prayer than in actual visits. It
is true that on a given day we
probably don’t pray definitely for
every sort and condition of men;)
but the question which really probes
us is not, “Do you pray for every
one,” but, “Are there any kinds of
people for whom you would not
pray?” If you are a democrat, do
you ever pray for a republican? If
you are a white person, do you
ever pray for negroes? If you are
Protestant, do you pray for Roman
Catholics? For the Pope? If you
are an American, do you pray for
Russians? For Chinese? If you are
a business man, do you pray for
your competitors? As a law abid
ing citizen, do you ever pray for
the men and women in the state
penitentiary? You see how it is.
The Royal Law is the hardest law
there is.
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The kids in the grandstand are yelling, “Strike
him out!” and our young pitcher is going to do
exactly that. This is his day for a shut-out game
. ... his day to win.
He’s feeling pretty good about it, and who’s
to blame him? But what if things had gone the
other way? What if some other boy had been
warming up in the bullpen, about to have taken
his place? But he is a well-balanced youngster,
and he would have taken that in stride, too.
He has learned about being a good sport,
about regard for his fellow men, and about many
other equally important things in Church. For,
like thousands of other American youngsters,
the Church already plays an important part in
his life. That is one reason why his parents
have faith in the fact that he will grow up to
be a pretty fine man.
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fharacter and aoo^cilU««h"®' f
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With Whom Do You Pray
James draws a sarcastic little
picture of some church ushers he
had very likely seen,—polishing
the apple of the well-dressed visi
tor to their church, and shoving
the poor man around so that he
would be almost sure never to
come back. How is it in your
church? You may have hanging on
the wall somewhere a copy of the
Royal Law; but does the church it
self keep it? Are there people, Ne
groes perhaps, who if they risked
showing themselves at your church,
and wanted to worship with you,
would be shoved into a corner or
perhaps refused admission entire
ly? Does your church set the ex
ample for its members, the exam
ple of love without exceptions?
(Based en outlines copyrifhted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Connell of the Clmrohes of Christ
In the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Servloe.).
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CHURCH (Presbylerian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Minister
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Wor
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7:15 p.m.
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Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
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Coi. Bennett and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
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EMMANUEL CHURCH
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Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a. m. (First
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Sunday School, 9 a. m.
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New York Ave. at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bilde School, 9:45 ajn. Worship
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Worship Service, 2nd and 3rd
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8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at
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Vermont Ave. at Ashe
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Holy Day masses 7 and 9 ajn.:
weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confes
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