THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
THE FIELD OF VISION by
Wiicfht Morris (Harcourt $3.50).
This novel has just received the
National Book Award as the
most distinguished piece of fic
tion published in 1956. The
award is given by polling the
book trade,—critics, publishers,
librarians, booksellers; and it sel
dom bears any relation to the
best seller lists. The award for
non-fiction went to ‘’“Russia
Leaves the War” by ,George F.
Kennan and that for poetry to
“Things of This World” by Rich-
aid Wilbur.
Mr. Morris has given us a
novel of considerable psychologi
cal depth and very little plot. We
are concerned with five charac
ters who are watching a buU
fight in Mexico, and the thesis
of the book is that they “would
feel and see what they had
brought along with them.” Four
of them had known each other
years back in Nebraska. There is
McKee, the solid citizen, and his
wife, Lois, not quite so solid as
she looks. There is Lois McKee’s
father, a relic of pioneer days,
and too old to care much. Com
plicating life for all of, them yet
adding to its flavor is Gordon
Boyd, the wild lad of the town
who had gone off to New York
but not amounted to much. Along
with Boyd we have Lehmann, a
second-rate psychiatrist of Euro
pean background.
By a series of glimpses into
the stream of thought of each of
these characters we learn a good
deal about them and their past
experiences and comparatively
little about the bull fight. The
drama of the bull-ring simply
stimulates these people to reflec
tions on certain crises in their
own lives and ponderings on the
relative advantages of being
reckless or playing safe.
Altogether the author has done
well what he set out to do, and
demonstrated convincingly how
different is “The Field of Vision’
for each of us. In doing so he has
painted a rather poignant pic
ture of. the distance that lies be
tween the closest of friends or
'people who have lived side by
side for years.
WE ARE SEVEN by Una Troy
(Dutton $3.50). Yes, there were
seven of Bridget Monaghan’s
children and all such nice chil
dren despite the fact that each
I had a different father, excepting,
I of course, the twins,—^Bridget
hadn’t quite been able to man
age that. And the children imfor-
I Innately had a way of resemb
ling their fathers, which was em
barrassing for all concerned in a
I small Irish village like Boon.
I This also made it a matter of
some anxiety as to whom the
j seventh baby, Pius, would favor
:as he grew up. Not that Bridget
herseU was embarrassed or
anxious. She went her serene
way, keeping her children neatly
clothed and adequately fed—she
owned a bit of property and took
in sewing; and she taught them
beautiful manners as well as
sterling principles of honesty, in
dustry and independence.
This is a book of real Irish
cbarm and quiet humor. The au
thor was born in County Cork,
now lives in Tipperary and
knows her Ireland well. She has
managed to make plausible a
somewhat fantastic situation by
clever omission of much discus
sion of Bridget herself and con
centrating on “the Seven.”
Each child is a different indiv
idual facing his situation with
! clear eyes but also with confi-
! dence in his abilities and a gen-
'eral expectation of friendliness
from others. “Most people like
me,” calmly says six-year-old
Toughy when rebuffed. So each
child captures your sympathy
and you cheer for him in his
progress toward making a place
for himself in the world, except
perhaps Pansy and Pansy obvi
ously does not need your cheers.
How the seven children work
out their destinies before the eyes
of the not very cooperative vil
lagers and how all ends happily
makes an amusing and appealing
story.
THE ENCHANTED SCHOOL-
HOUSE by Ruth Sawyer (Viking
$2.50). I was led to read this one
by a ten-year-old who told me
she had read it five times and
v/anted another copy for her best
friend. It was just as good as she
said,
'The author hvho is a famous
story teller has written this tale
of a small Irish boy in language
that is a delight to read aloud
and savour on the tongue.
Brian Born named for a
mighty hero of old Ireland is not
a very brave little bOy. When he
faces the prospect of coming to
the big rich United States, he
feels the need of moral support.
With the help of information
gleaned from his “granda” and
the schoolmaster he manages to
capture an Irish fairy and brings
it to America in a teapot. What
he and the fairy man manage to
do for a little Maine village
makes an enthralling tale.
There is a generous sprinkling
of fine illustrations by Hugh
Troy which help to make scenes
and characters vivid to the young
reader.
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Sunday School Lessons
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Backgrronnd Scripture: Matthew 23.
Devotional Reading: Isaiah 29:11-16.
Bookmobile
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Hypocrites
Lesson for March 24, 1957
T he word “hypocrite” can be
thrown around recklessly.
Some one asked Dr. W. L. Lingle
once why there are so many hypo
crites in the church. His reply was
that there are really not so many
as some people think. The church,
he says, is full of half-way Chris
tians. stupid Christians, ignorant
and weak
ANNIE'S SPENDING SPREE
by Nancy Dingman Walson (Vi
king $2.50). This is a pleasing
picture book about Annie who
was given a dollar to spend the
day before her birthday by a de
lightful grandmother. She goes to
the village store and is amazed
to find her dollar will buy a
hundred candy hearts—^but the
storekeeper says that would
make her sick; or a hundred pen
ny balloons—but the storekeeper
says the first wind would blow
her away.
What other wonderful possi
bilities are open to her, what she
finally decides and how the
birthday is celebrated is charm
ingly told by Mrs. Watson and
just as happily illustrated by Al-
dren Watson.
Very nice for little girls from
three to siii
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Christians,,
even 2V2% Chris
tians. But a gen
uine hypocrite is
a person who is
bad and knows it,
and pretends to
be good in or
der to conceal
his badness.
Such persons,
says Dr. Lingle,
ever, we should not sit back and
suppose that all the hypocrites
were Bible characters. Still less
should any one imagine that to
day all the hypocrites are in the
church. 'People who are at least
temporary hypocrites can be found
all around us. Perhaps in us!
Family Hypocrites
V/e don’t have to go to church
to be hypocrites. We can practice
right at home, and some of us
do all too well at it. The word
originally meant simply “actor.”
We are all hypocrites when we act
better than we know we are; or
when our preachments fly at a
higher level than our practice.
When Father gives the children
a lecture on honesty, the very
day when he sells a piece of real
estate for more than he knows
it is worth; when he spanks the
children for losing their tempers—
but doesn’t spank them tfll he
has lost his own; when Mother
tells the children at table to be
patient, though she wouldn’t wait
in line at the post office but
.queezed in out of turn; or
when she greets the visiting Mrs.
.rones like a long-lost sister, only
o say before the visitor gets in-
j her car. that she hopes that
bore never comes again;—Father
r.d Kj:.he." are being play-actors.
Even the children may be play
acting when they *take their par
ents’ lectures or discipline is if
they heard every word and meant
to do better next time, when all
the while they are thinking about
something else; and they may be
terrible little hypocrites about
school-—how mean the teacher is,
and how aU the children pick on
me, and so on.
Business Hypocrites
Dwight L. Moody admitted the
church harbors a good many hypo
crites, but—he said—there are a
lot more outside the church. There
are indeed. Take business for in
stance. Listening to the high
priests of big business in Ameri
ca, reading the advertisements,
the man from Mars might take
it seriously and believe that the
main object of business is serv
ice. The jolly fellowship at lunch
eon clubs might be taken in the
same way; how can these people
be deadly rivals? ’The answer is,
they aren’t. The club rules allow
admittance of only one person
from each “classification.” But
in each classification the man
may be a ruthless rival'' of other
men in the same line not in this
club. And as for service, it is
quite true this is an aim of busi
ness, but the aim is making mon
ey. Even men in “professions”
which have a long and honorable
record of service, may be
there for the simple reason that
there is more money in it than in
anything else they would find con
genial. "When a town finds itself
year after without a resident doc
tor or minister simply because it
is a town of poor people, the citi
zens are a little dubious about
the “Service” professions.
Hyposrites in Church
Which brings up the kind of hypo
crites who drew Jesus’ fire—the
hypocrites in church. Aren’t we
all hypocrites when we tip our
heads back and sing, “Jesus
I my cross have taken, all to
leave and follow thee”—^when we
decline even the small oppor
tunities for service the church
offers us? Isn’t a minister a hypo
crite when he exhorts his people
to virtues which in his position
are very easy but wliich he would
find pretty hard if he were in
their place? (Temperance, for in
stance.) Isn’t the church member
a hypocrite who hastens to dust
oft the Bible when she sees the
minister coming up the front
walk? Isn’t the churchman a
hypocrite who is extra careful of
his language around the preacher?
And aren’t we all hypocrites when
we pray, “Thy Kingdom come,”
—and back the prayer up with one
thin quarter?
(Bfs<5U on outlines copyrighted by the I
Division of Christian Education, Na I
,ional Council of the Churches of Chris,
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
<*res8 Service.)
Tuesday — Aberdeen School,
10; Roseland route, Marvin Hart-
sell, 12:45; Calvin Laten, 1; H.M.
Kirk, 1:15; C. S. Galyean, 1:45;
Colonial Heights, 2:15; J.J. Greer,
2:45.
Wednesday—^Mt. Carmel route.
Art Zenns, 10; vSandy Black,
10:15; Lloyd Chriscoe, 10:30; E.F.
■Whitaker, 10:45; H. A. Freeman,
11; Vernon Lisk, 11:30; John
Davis, 11:45; Fred Richardson,
12; Herbert Harris, 12:15; Tracy
Seawell, 12:30; Miss Rumell Gor
don, 12:45; S. E. Hanner, 1; Eulis j
Vest, 1:15; Mrs. Pearl Frye, 1:30; i
Mrs. Joyce Haywood, 1:45; John'
Willard, 2; C. L. Baldwin, 2:15. j
Thursday — Robbins route,:
Mrs.'' Perry Smith, 10; K. C.
Maness, 10:15; G. S. ’Williams,
10:45; Mrs. Etta Morgan, 11; Mrs.
Audrey Moore, 11:30; E. C. Derre-
berry, 11:45; Talc Mine, 12; Rob
bins School, 12:30; Elise High
School, 1; Robbins Library, 2;
Carthage, 3:30.
Friday — ’White Hill route.
W. E. Home, Jr., 10; R. H. Hen
dricks, 10:30; Danny Clark, 10:45;
Lynn 'Thomas, 11; Wesley Tho
mas, 11:15; J. A. Denny, 11:30;
BiU Cameron, 11:45; Arthur
Gaines, 12; Arthur. Salmon, 12:15;
Mrs. O. T. McBryde, 12:30; Mrs.
M. D. Mclver, 12:45; Mrs. J. V.
Easom, 1:15; Dunrovin Station,
1:30.
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Our verdict had been given. With a word of com
mendation the Judge discharged us, the ladies and
gentlemen of the jury. The completed duty brought
little relief. Instead there was a burden, a spiritoal
weight. Days of testimony and hours of deliberation
had given an oppressive sense of the world’s sin
and suffering.
The door of my church was open and 1 slipped
inside. I was alone as the rays of the setting sun
enhanced the rich colors of the windows. All was
quiet. I dropped to my knees.
Gradnally in the solemn beauty of that sacred
place I found peace. Here was sanctuary for me and
for all who would come in faith believing.
Thankfully 1 arose; my heart and mind felt calm
and refreshed. I could go home now, but I would
return often. In glad fellowship with God’s people
I would worship the Christ who died that men
might be forgiven.
THE CHUBCH FOR AU . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest fac
tor on earth lor the building o!
cboracter and good citizenship. It
is a storehouse ol spiritual values
Without a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilization can
survive. There are lour sound
reasons why every person should
attend services regularly and sup
port the Church. They are: (I)
For his own. sake. (2) For hit
children's sake. (3) For the sake
of his community and nation. (4)
For the sake of the Church ilsell.
which needs his moral and ma
terial support. Plan to go to
church regularly and read your
Bible daily.
Dejr Book Chapter Verses
Snnday... Psalms 62 1-12
Monday.. .Isaiph 1 1-20
^esday.. I>amentations S 22-36
Wednesd’yHatthew S 39-48
Thursday. Matthew 18 21-3S
Friday... .John 8 1-11
Saturday. .Komans 12 14-21
Copynsbt 1957, Ketster Adr. Sendee, StraeberB. V«.
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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
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iriE 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 (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 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, 7 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3rA
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 a.m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service 'Ihursday at
8 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY’S (Catholic)
■Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.ni.,‘
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a-nu;
weekday mass at 8 aun. Confes
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 pjn.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
Robert L. Bame. Minister
Church School, 9:45 ajn.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each third
Monday at 8 p, m.
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