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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Page THREE
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
BOSWELL IN SEARCH OF A
WIFE, 1766-69, edited by Frank
Brady and Frederick A. Pottle
(McGraw-Hill $6.0tt). Call him
naive or call him candid, no one
has given us so vivid a picture of
the life of the gentry in the 18th
century as Boswell—their virtues
and vices, their pleasures and
problems.
In the famous biography of
Johnson, Boswell was somewhat
limited by his subject but there
is no limit to the range of his in
terests in his journals and letters.
This is the fifth volume that
has appeared since the happy
discovery of his private papers
and brings Boswell’s ebullient
youth to a cl^ax as he takes up
his practice at the bar, acquires
a country estate, gets down to
writing a real book and decides
to marry. Readers of the earlier
volumes need no recommenda
tion of Boswell’s inimitable way
of describing his own moods and
motives and giving us casual
close-ups of the famous men of
his day.
Readers who missed the earlier
books will find in the editors’ in
troduction a concise account of
Boswell’s life up to the spring
day in 1766 when he sat down
and wrote to his friend, William
Temple, “Many a curious letter
have you had from me in differ
ent situations. A more extraor
dinary one than this you never
have had.” He is in love with
the gardner’s daughter and
dreaming of “delightful nup
tials,” but he "also knows very
well what is becoming to a Bos
well of Auchinleck Castle, so he
runs away, fleeing to a fashion
able watering place where he
promptly falls in love again.
There is much of love and
passion in this book and it ends
—surprisingly enough — with
Boswell making a marriage high
ly creditable to both his heart
and his head and that against the
opposition of his formidable
father. But the book is not all
love. There is a good deal about
the law courts, religion, the Cor
sican affair, and there is much
about dinners and other social
occasions when he conversed with
distinguished gentlemen, inclu
ding the great Samuel Johnson.
There are letters from Voltaire,
William Pitt, General Paoli. But
the chief attraction is the volatile
and ingenuous Boswell himself.
Speaking of the family temper
ament he says, “There are two
ways of viewing it. Either this:
there is a distemper in that fam
ily, all crack-brained: or this:
that family is remarkable for
genius and worth, though they
have a east of melancholy, often
the attendant of distinguished
minds.”
The editors have done a skill
ful job of arranging the material,
so that Boswell’s search for a
wife precedes with the narrative
force of a good, though some
what discursive novel.
MIRACLE IN THE MOUN
TAINS by Harnett T. Kane with
Inez Henry (Doubleday $3.95).
'The subtitle of this interesting
book is “The inspiring story of
Martha Berry’s crusade for the
mountain people of the South,”
and it is only by reading the fine
print on the cover that one real
izes what the “Miracle” is. Yet it
was indeed a miracle as we real
ize when we read this story of
Martha Berry and the fight she
waged against poverty and illit
eracy in Georgia. There is little
in her early life to account for
her crusade. She was the daugh
ter of a rich Southern planter,
accustomed to a happy life in a
normal family of children,—sij?
girls and two boys—in Rome,
Georgia, where she was born in
1866. Miss Berry died in 1942.
The first school was started
one Sunday atfernoon when she
was sitting reading in a little log
cabin on her father’s plantation,
and two forlorn, ignorant moun
tain boys peered in at her. She
asked them to come in and read
Bible stories to them. This was
their first experience with the
written word, and they were so
interested that when she asked
them to come again the next
Sunday, they not only came but
brought their parents. From then
on more and more children and
parents came, and the Berry
schools were horn.
For these schools, this young,
pretty woman gave up her fian
cee,—in fact, her whole life. The
school started as a day school but
eventually a dormitory for teen
age boys was added and later one
for girls.
Today it has the largest cam
pus of any college in the world.
As we read of Miss Berry’s strug
gles to raise money for the
schools, we are reminded of
those other dedicated people. Dr.
Schweitzer in Africa and Law
rence Mellon in Haiti. All have
the same unselfish missionary
spirit and “a faith that can move
mountains.”
—JANE H. TOWNE
I LOVE A LASS by Eliza-
beft Cadell (Morrow $3.50) If
you are looking for something
light and gay with no social
problems, here it is. Elizabeth
Cadell has proved herself mis
tress of the art of civilized enter
tainment before, witness
Bert Premo Wins
Sales Award From
Cooper Cass Co.
Bert Premo of Southern Pines,
central eastern North Carolina
representative of the Cooper D.
Cass Company, has been award
ed a $300» check for building an
outstanding sales record in July,
August and September, the com
pany recently announced.
Premo’s award, which was for
sales of Thermo-Fax copying ma
chines, was presented by W. K.
Hoyt, publisher of the Winston-
Salem Journal and Sentinel. The
Cass company, which is distribu
tor for the copying machines in
North Carolina, maintains home
offices in Winston-Salem.
Premo’s check will cover a
week’s expenses for two in
Miami, Fla.
Hobbs Addresses
Sanford Insurance
Agents Thursday
James D. Hobbs of Southern
Pines, a recent delegate to the
National Association of Life Un
derwriters meeting in Washing
ton, spoke to the Sanford unit of
the association at its regular
monthly meeting last Thursday.
Hobbs explained in detail the
various business conducted at
the meeting and told of the
ground - breaking ceremonies
held to begin construction on the
new NALU headquarters in
Washington.
The meeting was held at the
Wilrik Hotel.
SP
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Background Scripture: Isaiah 52:13—
53:12; Matthew 1:18-21.
Devotional Reading;: I Peter 3:14-22.
Suffering for Us
Lesson for November 4, 1956
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SAVE
“Around the Rugged Rock,’
’“The Lark Shall Sing,” etc. This
book is a trifle frothier than
usual with two gay young bach
elors stranded by a strike at St.
Malo where they are practically
kidnapped by a dusty and dom
ineering French countess who
wants to be driven to ^ chateau
that is not on any m^ or any
signpost. Buying an aged a!nd
decrepit- taxi they start out with
their baggage, the countess, an
active small boy and the suit
case of an almost bride who fol
lows them. ^
nAs always, the conversation,
sparkles, the complications get
more and more fantastic, and the
characters are uncommonly like
able. The background of the old
chateau and the unspoitled IFrehch
village of Choisy are as chcirming
as you could dream up. Every
one has a good time, including
the reader.
TRUE LOVE FOR JENNY by
Mebane Holoman Biurgwyn (Lip-
pincott $2.75). Here is a well
known North Carolina author,
this time with a lively and sjrni-
pathetic story about Jenny’s
sophomore year at high school.
Mrs. Burgwyn has already made
her reputation ' with teen-agers
by “Moonflower,” which was
published last year and is on the
new Chapel Hill list of a hundred
outstanding books about North
Carolina.
This time her young heroine
has a series of difficulties, tri
umphs, fun and heartaches that
are described with emotional
sincerity. Despite the title—^pos
sibly designed to lure the girls—
Jenny’s problems are not all
concerned with how: to get her
man. Her relationship with her
mother forms a major theme in
the book, and we see the two of
them working through a period
of strain and mutual irritation to
a deeper understanding. We also
share Jenny’s anxieties about
winning recognition as a person
among her schoolmates. As the
climax of her eventful year,
Jenny gleans a nugget of wisdom
which the thoughtful reader will
recognize as a thread that has
been skillfully woyen into the
whole plot.
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TN THE days when a running man
•I could overtake a carriage that
was in no hurry, a Christian man
named Philip was led to run up
close to a very handsome carriage
—they called it a chariot—in which
sat a man reading aloud to him
self. Something about the way he
was reading
made Philip, now
jogging along be
side the carriage,
ask the rider a
question. For the
man was reading
aloud from a book
which is no doubt
owned by every
reader of this col-
umn, a book Dr. Foreman
which to this very day outsells all
others, every month of every year:
the Bible. Philip didn’t ask the
man where he got the book, or
what he thought of it, much less
what the book was. Philip asked,
“Do you understand what you are
reading?” The distinguished stran
ger admitted he did not. But he
was so eager to find out that he
invited this unknown pedestrian to
ride with him. He was reading a
chapter from Isaiah, the very
same one that is our lesson scrip
ture this week. It is aU about “my
servant,” that is, God’s servant.
But who is this servant? The
prophet himself, or somebody else?
Could Philip please explain?
A Prophet Sees Christ
The book is 25 centuries old, the
story of Philip about 19 centuries
ago; but that chapter is still a fa
vorite with Christians. The Church
today gives essentially the same
answer Philip gave: this is a
prophecy about Jesus. Even those
Christians who doubt whether the
prophet originally set out to de
scribe the historic Jesus of Naza
reth agree that the picture fits
Jesus remarkably well. Most of
the Christian church says not only
that, but Jesus is the only person
the description does fit remark
ably well. It is a fair question:
Would the first Christians, such as
Philip, have thought this to be a
prophecy of Christ if Jesus had
never thought so himself? Are we
to say that Jesus wag less bright
than his followers? The beauty
and power of this great chapter
from Isaiah do not come from ac
curacy in details; it is pretty diffi
cult to make all the details match
exactly the facts of Jesus’ life.
Nevertheless this chapter is more
than beautiful in language and
thought; it is powerful in giving
us, in a few sentences, the central
spirit and underlying intention of
Jesus’ life. It is this: What he en
dured and suffered, in life and in
death, he suffered and endured
not for himself alone but for oth
ers, for us.
Levels of Suffering
Suffering can be undergone on
different levels, as it were. At
lowest level there is mere pain,
the kind known by animals. The
beast does not think about it, ani
mals around him do not; he simply
suffers. At the next level there is
pain suffered and resented, by hu
man beings. Above this is pain
which is suffered bravely, even de-1
fiantly, by a stoic (“I am the cap-i
tain of my soul”). Above this again
is pain which is borne with resig
nation not because it is necessary,
but because God wills it. On a still
higher level is suffering which is
offered to God as a sacrifice—all
the sufferer may have to give. As
high as this, if not higher, is suf
fering which is undergone for the
sake of others, as a mother for her
chUd. The suffering of Christ, the
church believes, is on a plane even
higher than all these, though it is
like some that have been men
tioned. For his sufferings were for
men and women everywhere, al
ways. I
“He Poured Out His Soul”
The tragedy of Jesus, taken as
a human tragedy alone, is sadden
ing. “To what purpose was all this
waste?”—^we ask Judas’ old ques
tion as the alabaster box pours
forth its treasure. If we remember
that this was not only a man but
God, undergoing this tragic dark
ness shot with “lightning of his
pain,” we can understand a little
better (but dimly, for the opaque
ness of our selfish minds) what the
suffering of Jesus meant and
means. It was for us; he bore our
griefs and carried our sorrows; he
made himself an offering lor sin.
You remember the girl who said
to her older sister: “Oh, some
times I wish I could take all the
miseries of the world and put them
on my shoulders!”
And the older sister said, “Didn’t
you know Jesus did that, long
ago?”
(Based on ontlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
Bookmobile
Schedule
Monday—Aberdeen School, 10;
Roseland route: Marvin Hartsell,
1:15; Calvin Laten, 1:30; H. M.
Kirk, 1:45; C. SI Galyean, 2; Col
onial Heights, 2:30.
Wednesday—Mt. Carmel route:
Art Zenns, 10; Sandy Black,
10:15; Lloyd Chriscoe, 10:30; H.
A. Freeman, 10:45; Mrs. Whit
aker, 11; Vernon Lisk, 11:15;
Daniel Boone, 11:30; John Davis
11:45; Fred Richardson, 12; Her
bert Harris, 12:15; Tracy Seawell,
12:30; Miss Bamel (Gordon,
12:45; S. E. Hannor, 1; Eulis Vest,
1:15; Mrs. Pearl F^^e, 1:30; Mrs.
Joyce Haywood, 1:45; John Wil
lard, 2; Miss Geraldine Baldwin,
2:15.
Thursday — Robbins route: K.
C. Maness, 10; Miss Vera Powers,
10:30; G. S. Williams, 10:45; Miss
Ethel Morgan, 11; Mrs. Etta Mor
gan, 11:15; Yarboroughs Store,
11:30; Mrs. Audrey Moore, 12;
E. C. Derreberry, 12:30; Talc
Mine, 1; Carthage, 2.
Friday—^White Hill route: W.
E. Horne, 10; R. H. Hendricks,
10:30; Danny Clark, 10:45; Lynn
Thomas, 11:15; Wesley TTiomas,
11:30; Albert Denny, 11:45;
Bill Cameron, 12; Arthur
I Gaines, 12:15; Mrs. M. D. Mclver,
112:30; J. E. Phillips, 12:45; Miss
lEasom, 1; Dunrovin Station, 1:15.
More than 46 per cent Of the
annual growth of sawtimber in
the United States and 44 per cent
of the nation’s annual growth on
trees of all sizes, occurs in forests
of the southern states, according
to the recent Timber Resource
Review statistics' published by
the U. S. Forest Service.
NEW BOOKS from
Carolina Authors
WHITEY ROPES AND RIDES, a
western for boys by Glen Rounds
$2.25
OTHNIEL JONES, a novel of Rev-
.olution in North Carolina by John
Adams Leland. $3.75
REBEL BOAST, the true story of five young sol(iiers
from North Carolina in the Civil War, by Manly Wade
Wellman. * . $3.95
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Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday
UTS go to church TOGtTHER
The good thing about this is that Dan
and Betty and those other youngsters
too are here, in Church, because they
want to be!
No one made them come. No one told
them that they had to. No one threat
ened punishment if they didn’t.
Though outside it is a bright sunny
day and the woods and fields and streams
beckon, they are here, in God’s house, at
prayer.
' They’d like the country and the world
to know that despite all this alarming
“juvenile delinquency” there are good
teen-agers too.
There are teen-agers who have been
instructed in the Christian way of life,
and who have discovered what the
Church can mean to them.
the church for AU . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest fac-
lor on earth ior the building of
character and good citizenship It
w a storehouse oi spiritual values.
Without a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilization can
reason*
reasons why every pershn should
^tend services regularly and sup-
^rt the Church. They are. (1)
For his own sake. (2) For his
children s sake. (3) For the sake
of his community and nation. (4)
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Monday
Tuesday Isa'iah
Wednesd’y Ezekiel
Thursday Philippians
Friday Titus
Saturday.. I John
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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 Simday.
■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 G. Timmons, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 ajn.
Sunday, 6.:30 p.m., Pflgrim Fel
lowship (Yoimg people).
Sunday. 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal) ,
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First
Sundays and Holy Days, 8 a.m.
and 11 a.m.)
Family Service, 9:30 a.m.
Church School, 10 a.m.
Morning Service, 11 a.m.
Young Peoples’ Service League,
6:30 p.m.
Holy Communion, Wednesdays
and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and Fri
day, 9 a.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 pjn.
Missionaiw meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie. $Gnisler
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and Srd
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 (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and lUraO ajn.;
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 ajn.;
weekday mass at 8 ajn. Conlea-
sioni^ heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHUTOH
Robert L. Bame. Mhaikter
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, Ashe Street)
Church School, 9:49 aja.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
day at 8 p. m.
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