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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1956
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
Explorer Scouts
To Hold Annual
Ball Saturday
THE NUN'S STORY by Kath
ryn Hulme (Little Brown $4.00).
This is not fiction. It is the true
story of a young Belgian girl
who, after an unhappy love af
fair, decided to become a nun.
Her six months as a postulant
and her three years as a novice
were long and difficult for this
girl accustomed to a life of lux
ury. However, nothing seemed
too hard for her even the pun
ishments, which to us seem un
necessarily severe for such trivi
al offenses.
Ohe wonders how the author
has been allowed to publish the
details of this rigorous training.
Those who , survive and become
the Superiors are outstanding
women of both the material and
spiritual world.
Sister Luke, after finishing her
training, dreamed of nursing in
the Congo and finally went
there. Her work was remarkable
and she wanted to stay on, bdt
her health gave out and she was
sent back to Belgium. She was
sent to a hospital near the border
of Holland.! When th^ Germans
advanced into Belgium and her
father was killed trying to get
out of the country, she became
an undergroimd worker.
Finally realizing that she could
no longer accept the convent life
and feeling that she could do
more good in the world, she was
released from her vows. The ac
count of her leaving the sister
hood is one of the most moving
in the book.
As a friend remarked the oth
er day, “This is a fascinating
book.”
—JANE H. TOWNE
SON OF DUST by H. F. M.
Prescott (Macmillan $3.75). This
novel set in eleventh century
Normandy under Duke William
who later conquered England,
tells the story of young Fulcrun
Geroy, the illegitimate soA of a
Norman noble and a Breton
peasant girl. Because of his un-
The first annual “Explorers
Ball” for members of Explorer
, Scout troops in Moore District
I will be held Saturday night at
the Community House in Carth
age, it has been announced by ac
tivities director David Drexel.
The ball, which begins at 7:30,
will also feature the crowning of
“Miss Exploring,” who will re
ceive special gifts, and a num-
ber of other activities, including
the love of God. He suffers with songs by Miss Arden Fobes of
lawful love for Aide, wife of an
other man, he brings himself, his
family and friends to tragedy.
He cannot give up his love and
yet fears the wrath of God and
his divided mind and heart until
irl the end, he finds a kind of
humble peace and even happi
ness.
The reader cannot but feel that
it is a real story about real peo
ple and that he is getting a gen
uine picture of life as it was lived
in the eleventh century.
Miss Prescott is a most con
vincing teller of tales. In this
novel, which was written twenty-
live years ago and published in
England but is appearing for the
first time in this country, she
tells an absorbing and timeless
story.
—JULIA BURT ATTEBERRY
THE LINDEN AFFAIR by
Martha Allbrand (Random $3.00).
Martha Allbrand has lived in
many parts of the world, hence
her backgrounds are both inter
esting and authentic. In her
latest tale of adventure the scene
is Munich. We have the story of a
Southern Pines. A band has been
engaged for the affair, which is
sponsored by the Order of the Ar-
row. scout honor society.
All boys in scout troops in the
county, together with their dates
and parents, are invited. Other
boys, whether they are scouts or
not, are also invited, Drexel said.
Admission will be $1.25.
.BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Background Scriptnre: John 1:1-18:
Luke 2:1-20.
Devotional Reading: Isaiah 9:2-7.
When God Game
Overflows” by Rebecca West.
Earlier novels have given us
sensitive and convincing pictures
of individuals caught in some old
catastrophe such as the fall of
Rome and working out their in
dividual fates in a net of circum
stances which was none of their
making.
This book has a similar theme
but the setting is modem,—^Lon
don during the bombing. Miss
Selina’s teashop. The Warming
Pan, is the point of vantage from
which we watch a number of un
important people who are being
young Intelligence Officer trying quietly heroic without the least
to get an old friend out from be
hind the Iron Curtain.
The author holds your interest
throughout, and this is one of the
better stories of mi^stery and in
trigue.
—JANE H. TOWNE
BEOWULF by Biyher (Pan
theon $2.75). These brief, unos
tentatious novels by Bryher have
come to be looked forward to as
events by connoisseurs of litera
ture. Miss Bryher writes more in
the French . tradition than the
English with her preference for
selection of the significant detail
and concise statement rather
than the rich and lively abun
dance of the great Ekiglish novels
from Defoe and Dickens to the
just published “The Foimtain
idea of using such a flamboyant
word for their conduct. They are
very English, very civilized, very i
touching. Yet one almost hesi- ^
tates to use such a sentimental |
word for one’s own emotions |
when the most Miss Selina would
say when disaster fell was “It is
very embarrassing to be bombed
out.” ’
The teashop’s mascot, appro
priately enough, is Beowulf, a
piaster bulldog of no esthetic
pretensions.
An elephant’s trunk is compos
ed of a solid mass of muscle
fibers and ligaments so tightly
bound together they can hardly
be dissected.
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Lesson for December 23, 1956
/~\NCE upon a time, so runs a
' modem legend, there came a
rumor to the ears of all the angels
that God himself was going to visit
a district in his dominions known
as the Earth. Some of the angels
had never before beard of the
place, but others had been on er
rands thither, and
in its affairs. So
there was much
talk and many
opinions, for it is
with angels as
with men, that
not being pos
sessed of infinite
wisdom, they do
not all see eyh
to oye. Dr. Foreman
Why Should God Come to Earth?
“The earth is too small,” said
one angeL “I have seen the place
and it could be lost in a corner of
heaven. Why should the Almighty
trouble himself about the place?”
“It is more than small,” said
another angel. “It is wicked.”
“What is ‘wicked’ ”? said an
angel who had never seen sin.
“It is hard to explain,” said the
wiser angel. “You will not believe
me, hut there are beings on that
place called Earth who do not our
Lord’s will. They do not even wish
to do it. Some there are who doubt
even that he exists. And some hate
him and call him stupid and
cruel.”
“I do not believe it,” said the
young angel.”
“It is true none the less,” said
the older one.
“Then the Lord win descend in
flame and destroy that evil place,”
said the young angel. “Amen,”
said many others together.
“It has come to my ears,” said
one who had not spoken, “that this
visit is not in wrath but in mercy.
God is going to win back to him
self those who have rebelled.” ,
“But how shall he do this?”
came the chorus. “He has tried
beiore, these many times,” said
one who remembered. He has sent
.rnc.-jssses by us his angels, he has
r.poiien by poets and preachers and
heroes and saints. He has shown
men what is good, and if men wiU
not believe Moses and the proph
ets, Would they listen to the voice
of the very God?”
How Shall the Most High Come to
Man?
“And if he came in his infinite
glory, how would they endure the
sight?” asked another. “Angels
veil their faces before him; how
shall sinful man look upon the face
of God and live?”
“I have heard,” said one, “that
he is to go as a man. I do not
know how this can be, but this
have heard.”
“What manner of man?” said
some. “And how will he come?
asked others. One spoke: “Surely
he will be born in a king’s palace.
Men find it not easy to believe, at
best. If God appears in lower than
the highest human place, there will
be none to believe it is He. If they
cannot bow to him as a man they
will never kneel to him as God.
“Nay,” said another angel, “men
are oppressed by their kings. If he
comes from a royal place they will
take him for another tyrant. What
men respect is wisdom. He must
be born to learning, he must be
acquainted with all the books wise
men have written, he must be a
son of the schools, a philosopher.”
“Not so,” said others. “Scholars
are tedious to most people. Human
beings are like children. If God is
to have their eye and ear he must
win them by amazement. Let him
drop from a golden cloud at dawn,
let him work almighty miracles, let
him turn stones into bread and
sand into silver. Let him be richest
of men, dispensing wealth to all.
Then they may believe.”
Tha Word Became Flesh
But God, who had not sought
counsel of his angels, took his own
strange way. He came not in a
golden cloud but in darkness with
only a star for light. He came not
to palace or university but to a
woman untaught, unknown; not to
a home of wealth but to a couple
so poor they could not pay for a
room in a village. He summoned
no crowds to witness his coming.
If certain poor shepherds heard of
it, and if a few wise men from a
far land came to see, it was not
he mother who told the news.
There are many doors into human
life, and some of them are deep
n shadows. And what the angels
did not know, the Lord on High
imew: that men who .live in a dark-
sned world would never be saved
oy a God who feared to walk in
hadowed ways.
(Based on outlines copyrlg:!tted by the
)ivlsion of Christian Education, Na-
ional Council of the Churches of Christ
n the U. S. A. Released by Community
ress Service.)
West End Scout
Units Hold Annual
Christmas Party
Eight cub scouts of the pack in
West End .were presented
achievement awards at the an
nual Christmas party of the
Sandspur Club at the Legion Hut
in West End last ’Thursday.
The awards, presented by cub-
j master Roy Swaringen, went to
Gilbert Rushing, Bobby Hender
son, William Johnson, Ned Car-
son, Johnny Blue, Vernon Sut-
phin, Rick Lewis and Chuck
Lewis.
The party, which attracted
more than 100 people, was for
the four scout units in the West
End area, including the senior'
girl scouts. Christmas carols were
sung, and a skit, depicting the
true meaning of Christmas, was
staged by members of the cub
scout unit.
Bobbie Jean McNair of West
End won a doll, .“Miss Sandspur
of 1956” as part of the program.
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Boy—I can hardly wait!
I’ve got my stocking hnng by the chimney with
plenty of care, and Christmas morning it’ll be
bursting full of all sorts of good things. There’ll
be a candy cane sticking out of the top .. . there
always is -. . . and a walnut stuffed way down in
the tip of the toe.
And then ... the tree! I don’t think there’s a
prettier sight on earth than a Christmas tree. And
all those presents underneath it, wrapped up in
bright colors and tied with ribbons.
Then Mom and Dad and my sister Ellen and I
will get dressed, and we’ll go to Church. That’s
one of the best parts of Christmas. For Mom and
Dad always say that Christmas is the celebration
of Christ’s birthday. I love the music in our
Church at Christmas—“Hark the Herald Angels
Sing,” and all the other carols. When I hear
them, I feel all filled up with joy, and I know
why our minister says that Christmas is the hap
piest day of the whole year.
Boy—I can hardly wait! And I just hope that
your Christmas is going to be as merry as ours!
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
Cheves K. Ligon. Minister
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Wor-
hip service, 11 a.m. Women of
the Church meeting, 8 p.m. Mon-
iay following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Stuiday evening.
Mid-week service, Wedne^ay,
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 C%urch 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.in.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel-
owship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 ajn. (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 atm.
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. Penanoe.
FmST 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.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Mjwigfcw
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3iA
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Foturfii
Sunday morning. 11 tun.
Women of the Church meeting;
8 pjn., second Tuesday.
Mid-week kervice Thursday at
8 pun.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Calbidii^
Vermont Ave. at AHia
Father Peter liL Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a m ;
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.in.;
weekday mass at 8 aJn. Confes
sions heard on SaturdtQr between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Robert L. Bame. Minister
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, Aiiie Street)
Church School, 9:45 a-m.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.j
W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
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