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.J THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1956 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER wits of England in his gardens and speculation ranged wildly. The story is told in the first person by Liza Bowe, barmaid at the Mermaid Tavern. This limits our view but adds an effect of personal acquaintance with cel ebrities, pleasing to those who like to identify themselves with heroine or hero. Liza is a compe tent, hard-working barmaid and a veiy well behaved girl, devoted to her Philip,* a young gentleman of the poets circle at the Mer maid. Philip himself has become obsessed by the Faust legend THE RELUCTANT LEGION-1 tist’s cautious scrutiny of facts NAIRE by Michael Alexander and theories. It is a rare find for (Dutton $3.50). This is a true anyone who likes to ponder the j 'life'for Eliza story and what a story! Though ways of Nature, whether ama-I it begins with a quotation from teur field naturalist or^just the | makes a pleasing roman- “Beau Geste”, times and methods armchair variety. “Day and tic tale, and the background have changed since P. C. Wren night, from one end of the year considerable knowledge of wrote his tale of the Foreign Le- to the other. . . millions of livmg Elizabethan days and ways gion. When West de Wind Fen- creatures are moving through air, ton who “had everything—mon- and land and sea, just as they eyed ease, influential friends, have moved for hundreds of gay parties and a blue-blooded thousands of years, weaving family history” joined the around the globe a network of Foreign Legion in a fit of repres- peregrinations, some of them six Sion and then decided he did not thousand miles long.” What like that life, the problem of get- drives them? How do they know ting him out is taken up gaily when to start, what direction to enough by some of his friends at follow? a London party. He had written The author does not attempt a to a girl of' his circle about one ' comprehensive study of all unsuccessful attempt at escape, known migrations but selects a “I had quite fun while on the run few and gives us vivid word pic- but the prison was veryscruffy.”, tures of these along with brief Michael Alexander was the man accounts of man’s attempts to ex- elected to rescue him because of plain them frorr\ Aristotle to the, . - - his war time experience in North latest findings of science. We see ^ was still a molten mass of fiery- Africa. Money for travel and the graylag geese leaving the hot doughy material. It gives bribes seemed of first import- plains of Turkestan, awkwardly | tests to determine what you ance, and the resourceful Mich- plodding south on foot during the rocks contain, and it tells ab ael decided it could best be ob- moulting season and then, with tained by selling the story before' riow feathers grown, flying great he started. The interviews with mountain ranges until they sur- editors, literary agents, and pub- mount the last barrier of all, the lishers give a fantastic picture of,high Himalayas, how some things happen in our| We follow the smolt, or young world today. A contract was ,salmon, from his mountain finally made and off the rescuer' stream to the sea and see him THE STORY OF ROCKS by Dorothy Shuttlesworth with il lustrations by Su Zhn Swain, (Garden City $2.50). When the child begins to bring home stones that attract his attention because of their, appealing texture or shape, he is on his way toward a real rock collection. Mrs. Shut tlesworth tells how to transcribe this interest into knowledge. Her book, with many full-color illus trations, is designed to help the child identify rocks. It tells about rock-forming minerals from their very beginning when the earth went, accompanied by a friend who wanted a holiday and Lady come back again years later and many pounds heavier to the same Mary Rous, daughter of an earl, remote stream. We watch the —^the newspaper insisted on her vast and mysterious migrations for romantic interest. of the buffalo, the eel, the locusts There is a great deal of dash-' and the suicide rush of the lem- ing about Algiers in cars and mings into the sea. Behind all much drinking in bars as they | this and involved in the varied pursue the elusive Fenton, explanations of it are the winds French officialdom regards them and tides, the movement of sun, with no favor at all and the For- moon and stars. metals with strange properties. In the last chapter, entitled “Strictly for Rock-Hounds,” Mrs. .Shuttlesworth suggests ways to collect and then store collections. She says that although it is sometimes difficult for a city child to find speciments, there are always possibilities where a new road or bridge is being built. A quarry, a lake, sea, or river front may be wonderful places for field trips. Mrs. Shuttlesworth tells how to keep records of “finds,’ and lists the simple equipment which is needed. eign Legion obviously tries to prevent any contact with their recruit. It resembles the gayer type of mystery story at this point and builds up good sus pense. There is a whirlwind finish in Africa and an odd chapter in Lis bon but oddest of all is the end ing in England where Fenton is again incarcerated, this time by the newspaper which wants to be sure of an exclusive story. The tale is told in a witty and amus ing way. Not since St. Exupery have I read an author so conscious of the oneness of the universe. It may not be fair to quote this out of context, but Georges Blond is convinced that man, too, “is ^ much more closely intergrated ^eadedness. with the cosmos than he general ly believes.” LIZA Bowe, a Novel of Eliza- belhian Times and Ihe Mermaid Tavern by Shirley Barker (Ran dom $3.50). This is a light-heart ed book of those brilliant, crowd ed days when Kit Marlowe and Avery County, in Western North Carolina, was named for Col. WaightstiU Avery, Revolu tionary patriot who, when chal lenged to a duel by young An drew Jackson, allowed him to fire, then marched up and lec tured him on the evils of hot- PILOT advertising PAYS the great MHGRATIONS wm Shakespeare were young, by Georges Blond (Macmillan' when England repulsed the $4.00). This book is written with!Armada and when Sir Walter a poet’s imagination and a scien-' Raleigh entertained the keenest GEORGE W. TYNER PAINTING & WALLPAPERING 205 Midland Road Phone 2-5804 SOUTHERN PINES. N. C. 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FOREMAN Background Scripture: Luke 15:11-52. Devotional Beading: Psalms 103:1-13. Two Sons Bookmobile Schedule Lesson for November 25, 1956 W HAT does the word “prodi gal” mean? Ask some Sun day school class that, and you may be surprised at how many bad guesses you hear. Actually the name simply means “wasteful.” Je sus never named his parables; and sometimes the names the church has given them fit, and some times not. The parable of the ■‘prodigal son” might be better named “The Two j Prodigal Sons” or “The Forgiv ing Father.” Dr. Foreman Two Ways of Wasting There are two ways of being prodigal or wasteful. One is to use up and destroy what might have been saved. If you let good farm machinery sit around in the rain till it rusts, you are wasting equip ment. If you use expensive butter for a job a little bacon grease will do just as well, you are wasting the butter. If you are a general and order a useless assault in which thousands of men needlessly lose thir Jives, you are wasting hu man life. All these wasteful acts, great and small, are done in the same way, essentially by throwing away or spoiling what might have been saved and use. Another way of wasting is just not to use what is there to use, something which if you do not use now you will never have the chance to use again. An example of this is water power. The' river flows on its way, devel oping so many horsepower with every mUe; if these are not used today, tomorrow the horsepower— today’s horsepower—will be gone. You waste water power not by de stroying it but by failing to use it. The Younger Son Now in Jesus’ famous parable, the two sons were both wasters, but in opposite ways. Take the younger one: Give me ... he said, and off he went. A young fortune was in his hands; but he threw it away, he was through ./ith it, he was through, “period,” in no time. Ther^ was something else he wasted; his father’s love and con fidence. He virtually treated his fa ther as if he were already dead. This younger son is, of course, the type of the reckless sinner who wastes his health, strength, char acter, perhaps money too, the sort of man who is called a “wastrel” or waster. The time, life, strength that such a man wastes cannot be brought back again. You could go down to Skid Row or to the nearest hospital for drug addicts and con vert them every one; but you could never give them back the “years the locusts have eaten.” God for gives such men, as the father in Jesus’ story forgave the younger prodigal; but just as the father in that story could not recall from the four winds the wasted fortune and the wasted, years, so not even God ever turns the clock or the calen dar back. The Older Son But that older boy—he too was a waster. Only he wasted in the other way, not by destroying but not using. There seems to be some thing deeply sad in the father’s. simple saying: “Son, you are al ways with me, and all that is mine is yours.” This was true—and yet the son had made it untrue. “You are always with me”—so near, hnd yet so far away. None of the fa ther’s spirit had penetrated the boy’s mind. He was physically at home yet spiritually a stranger. He too, in a different way, had lived like an orphan. Every day there was open to him a father’s heart, a father’s sympathy, a father’s wealth; but he never took ft. If for the younger boy there was waste- by-destruction, for the older there was waste-by-neglect. Did the fa ther forgive this son too? The story does not say. The impression most people get is' perhaps what Jesus intended to suggest: The father was ready to forgive each son; but the younger son was forgiven, be cause he had “come to himself,” he had confessed his wrong. The older son was not (go far as the story takes us) forgiven, because he did not seem to be conscious of having done anything wrong. Of course he was the type of the Pharisees; but the Pharisees are not dead. In the church and out there are correct, respectable citi zens who know nothing of God’s love for their lost brothers, and so have never known the God they officially call “Father.” God will forgive such a man too; but per- ' haps he seldom does, for such a man seldom thinks he needs it. (Based on outlines copyrlsrhted by the Division of Christian Education, Na tional Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) Tuesday—Routh’s Service Sta-I tion, 9:30; Sam Taylor, 9:45;! Lewis Marion, 10; Cameron! School, 10:15; Cameron, 11:15-! J2:15; 'Wade Collins, 12:30; Miss Margaret Gilchrist, 12:45; Wal-| ter McDonald, 1; Paul 'Thomas station, 1:30. Wednesday — Doubs Chapel Rt.; Arnold Thomas, 10; Clyde McKenzie, 10:15; Elmer 'Vest, 10:30; Mrs. Frances Scarboro, 11; R. L. Blake, 11:30; W. E. Jackson, 12; Robert Blake, 12:30; Clyde Auman, 12:45; Landis Cox, 1; Frank Cox, 1:30. | Thursday—^Westmoore School, 10; Roland Nall, 11:45; Charles Stutts, 12; Arthur Baldwin, 12:30; C. G. Cole, 12:45; Davis School, 1:15; Enloes Grill, 1:45; Carthage, 2:30. | Friday—Murdocksville Road: Dan Lewis, 9:45; W. R. Dunlap, 10; Miss Margaret McKenzie, 10:15; Tom Clayton, 10:30; Mrs. Page THREE I A. Rice, 11; Mrs. Ethel Black,! Lea, 1:15; J. V. Cole, 1:30; Ed jll;15; Edward Black, 11:30; Earl Smith, 1:45; H. E. Blue, 2; Ha Monroe, 12; Mrs. Helen Neff, Garrison, 2:15; M. L. McGuirt, I.12:30; Coy McKenzie, 12:45; R. E. 2:45. DELICIOUS FOOD at DIXIE INN Phone 20321—VASS, N. C. MONDAYS Thru SATURDAYS. 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Romans 12. ••••••«••••• Romans 13. •.•••••••••• I Corinthians 13:1-13 14. «««.«4.*.«...l%ilippiaD8 .'4:1-23 15 Hebrews ..11:1-40 16 Sunday Luke 10:23-42 17 .....Luke 11:1-17 18.. .. Luke 12:22-34 19 Luke ......15:1-10 20 Luke 15:11-32 21 Xnke 1:1-23 22 Xuke ......1:24-38 23 Sunday Lake 1:39-56 24 Luke 1:57-80 25 Christmas... Luke 2:1-20 AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY Dept. U. 450 Park Avenue New York 22, N. Y. ...8:1-21 ..17:16-34 -....8:1-39 .12:1-21 It happens in offices, in factories, in bar racks ... on ships and trains and airplanes ... in the quiet of churches, in the thunder of battle; we pause in the turmoil of time to read the Word of Eternity. And the pages we read bring us close to those at home, or to those away from home. For the Bible brings us to God, in Whom there are no distances, with Whom love en compasses all. One of the great Christian enterprises of our time is the American Bible Society. Through the support of Christian churches and individuals it seeks to bring these divine piges before the eyes of men, women and children the world over. Like the churches of our community it calls men to the Truth on which unity and freedom are founded. the church for au . . . AU FOR THE CHURCH The Church is the greatest (ac tor on earth (or the building oi char^ter and good citizenship. It IS a^torehouse oi spiritual values Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor ci'vilizotion can survive. There are lour sound rMsons why every person should attend services regularly and sup port the Church. They are- (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children s sake. (3) For the sake OI his community and nation, (4) For (he sake of the Church ilsell which needs his moral and ma terial support. Plan to go to mble daity''.“'“^‘'' Day Sunday.... Monday... ‘Tuesday... Wednesday Thursday.. Friday Saturday ^ok Chapter Verses I Kinerci .a - . I Kings • Matthew ■ Matthew Matthew . Hebrews ' - Ji Timothy . II Peter 9-12 1-16 17-26 27-48 9-13 10-17 16-21 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 pun., Pilgrim Fel lowship (Young 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 p. m. Holy Communion, Wednesdays and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and Fri day, 9:30. Saturday—6 p. m. Penance. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH New York Ave. at South Asha Da'vid 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.iu., mid-week worship, Wednes day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice Wednesday 8:15 p.m. Missionary meeting, first and third Tuesflays, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers, second Thurs days, 7 p.m. CopgirUiht 1956, Keister Adw, Servtee, btirwbiirs. Ve-'V 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. Women of the Church meeting, 8 p.m., second Tuesday. Mid-week service Thursday at 8 p.m. ST. ANTHONY'S (CalhoUc) Vermont Ave. at Ashe Father Peter M. Denges Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 am.; Holy Day masses 7 and 9 Shm.; weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confes sions heard on Saturday between 5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m. SOUTHERN PINES METHODIST CHURCH Robert L. Bame, Minister (Services held temporarily at Civic Club. Ashe Strefet) Church School, 9:43 am Worship Service, 11 a. m.; W. C. S. meets each first Tues day at 8 p. m. —This Space Donated in the GRAVES MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. ‘ CITIZENS BANK & TRUST CO. CLARK & BRADSHAW SANDHILL DRUG CQ. SHAW PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. CHARLES W. PICQUET MODERN MARKET W. E. Blue JACK'S GRILL & RESTAURANT Interest of the Churches by— CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO. UNITED TELEPHONE CO. JACKSON MOTORS, Inc. Your FORD Dealer McNEILL'S SERVICE STATION Gulf Service PERKINSON'S, Inc. Jeweler SOUTHERN PINES MOTOR CO. A & P TEA CO.