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THURSDAY. APRIL 18, 1957
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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
A NOSTALGIA FOR CAMELS
hy Christopher Rand (Little,
Brown $3.95). Mr. Rand knows a
Sood deal about Asia, but his
book will not make you an au
thority on the subject, able to
tell the State Department what
they should do, for Mr. Rand is
a modest man. Though he spent
considerable time in the East and
travelled into some of the less
known parts, he confesses to
some ordinary tourist curiosities
such as wondering what an
opium den was like. It turned
out to be mildly interesting and
]ust an everyday affair to those
most concerned, including the
manager who said that trade' was
fairly good but that he was hav
ing trouble getting supplies of
good quality.
I found uncommonly pleasing
Mr. Rand’s quiet way of telling
just what did arouse his curi
osity, how he went about satisfy
ing it and exactly what people
said and did, what they looked
like and what clothes they wore.
It leaves you with singularly
sharp impressions of individuals
from the old Malay fisherman,
“the human radsir,’’ to Haryey
Slocum, construction engineer,
building with great gusto a dam
for India that will be the largest
outside the United States.
Prize example of the author’s
way of pursuing the queries of
his own mind and finding no
world-shaking answers but a cer
tain illumination of the mind of
the Asiatic is his title story. Rand
nad a scholarly friend from: Cen
tral Asia who spoke of camels
with “great depth of feeling,”
particularly the “buta.” Now
camels are to the Westerner un
likely objects of affection, so
Rand wondered why his friend
felt that way and spent several
hours and bottles of beer in try
ing to find out.
Some chapters appeared pre
viously in the New Yorker.
THE LADY by Conrad Richter
(Knopf $3.00). This short novel,
whose scene is New Mexico, is a
fine piece of writing and a gem
of its kind. One thinks of a por-
to his other troubles, when ‘"The
Lady,” a distant cousin by mar
riage, comes to his rescue. She is
rich, beautiful, generous, daugh
ter of a Mexican mother and an
English father.
The boy falls under her femin
ine spell but he has heard tales
of her Spanish temper and is also
aware of and afraid of another
quality in her character, a ruth
lessness, an inability to believe
she is subject to ordinary rules.
True, that is why she can and
does take into her home a boy
she has never noticed before just
when the respectable begin to
shim him, that is why she is so
wonderful to the Mexican peons
and servsints on her ranch, but
this regal quality has its dangers
when her will is crossed. *
In effect, the plot is a dramatic
development of the consequences
that follow the logical acts of
such a character, a lady whom
many were willing to shield from
the results of her waywardness
but whom, in the last analysis,
they cannot protect from the fate
inherent in her own character.
Yet she remains so gallant, such
an example pf lonely
facing the thoroughly
was bom and de-
tian Church
veloped.
THE SHORT REIGN OF PIP-
PIN IV. a Fabrication by John
Steinbeck (Viking $3.00)., This
book has been getting so much
lambasting from the critics that
I do not want to add to it. I
would like to point out that Mr.
Steinbeck writes better than the
average aifthor any time and he
seldom repeats himself. This gay
satire on French politics is not as
funny as it might have been, but
he has a good situation, and it
is plausible enough to anyone
who has heard elderly French-
nien argue oyer the relative
merits of the Bourbons and Na
poleon as heatedly as men do
here over the New Deal and Re
publican leaders.
When no French party is able
to form a government, someone
suggests a monarchy, and they
choqse the oldest royal line of all.
A descendant of the Mqroving-
ian line, that of Charlemagne, is
found—a quiet scholarly gentle
man who does not in the least
want to be king but can find no
way, out. Some of the episodes are
most amusing, and the story is
considerably enlivened by a
young American in love with the
king’s daughter, who wants to
introduce American methods into
the situation.
HE
lnt«nMtion*t Unilonn
Sunday School Lt>om
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Baekfronnd Soriptare: Matthew 27:53
—28:20.
Devotional Readlnr: I Corinthians
15:12-23.
God’s D-Day
Lesson (or April 21,19S7
How does the touring motorist
spend his travel dollar. Here’s
the breakdown: meals 29 cents;
transportation 21 cents; lodging
20 cents; retail purchases 18
cents; theaters and other amuse-
stride across the pqges of this
latest religious novel by LeGette
Blythe. Knitting up separate
threads of their lives is the ad
venture-filled story of a fiction
al character named Longinus.
But the novel’s real hero is the
budding Christian Church itself.
Opening with the first Easter,
“The Crown Tree” teUs the story
of the early Church by telling the
personal stories of the men and
women who built it. The tree’s
growth symbolizes the spread of
this new religion. Sticking close
ly to the facts from the Bible and
history, Blythe fills in the pic
ture-making details for a variety
trait of some proud lady of the' of scenes. He covers the stoning
Renaissance with shadowy fig-!of Stephen, the first martyr;
ures of retainers, tradesmen, Peter raising Dorcas from death;
servants in the background. The' public and private life in Rome
Dona" Elena of the story is seen and Jerusalem; Saul’s conversion
through the eyes of an adoles-1 on the burning road to Damas-
cent boy left orphaned in a fron- cus. He carries the growth of the
tier town by the unexplained dis- ; Church to the decisions by Peter
a^jpearance of his father. Ugly I and Paul to accept Gentiles into
rumors begin to circulate about I the fellowship,
the reasons for the disappear-1 This is the first of a series of
ance, and the boy is threatened three books designed to tell the
with social ostracism in addition hiunan story of how the Chris-
courage ments 7 cents; and admissions to
deserved, travel attractions 5 cents. That
bludgeons of fate that we are re- shoots the dollar I
lieved when the author, at the j
last moment, spares her the final kOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
insult of poverty. i to BE HELD ON PETITION TO
THE CROWN TREE by Le-' CONSTRUCT AND INSTALL
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TOWN OF SOUTHERN PINES
Pursuant to authority contain
ed in the North Carolina General
Statutes, Chapter 160, and in ac
cordance with the Code of Ordi
nances of the Town of Southern
Pines, Chapter “O” notice is
hereby given that -hearing will
be held at the Southern Pines
Library at 5:00 P. M. on the 25th
day of April, 1957, on a petition
of Southern Pines Motor' Com
pany and David McCallum,
whereby they request the right
to construct a filling station on
that certain lot in the Business
District of the Town of Southern
Pines, more particularly identi
fied as follows:
Being that lot adjacent to
and immediately south of the
Southern Pines Motor Com
pany building, fronting nine
ty feet on Southwest Broad
Street in Southern Pines and
extending a distance of one
hundred and fifty feet in a
westerly direction from said
'street.
Provided, however, that in
case of a protest against th%
granting of such permit to build
such filling station, signed by the
owners of twenty per cent or
more either of the lots included
in the same block as the proposed
site of said filling station, or of
those directly opposite tiiereto,
extending four hundred feet
from the street frontage of such
proposed site of said filling sta
tion, in any direction of the street
adjacent to such proposed site
O NE OF the most famous of
Easter hymns begins: “The
strife is o’er, the battle done. The
Victory of life is won.. .” Among
the many true meanings of Christ’s
death and resurrection is this:
Christ has conquered sin and
death. All that death and sin could
do to him, was done; yet he “rose
a victor e’er the
dark domain,” as
another familiar
hymn goes. The
last word of Je
sus to his dici-
ples, as Matthew
reports it, begins
—“All authority
has been given
nie ...” Easter
is not a season Foreman
for puzzles; and yet aU this does
raise a question in the minds of
both Christians and unbelievers.
If it is true that Christ has won
for us the victory over sin and
death, if it is true that it is He
who has the true authority over
man and history, how is it that the
world racks along in such a slow,
painful, frustrated sort of way?
Looking at a slum, or a battlefield
or a cemetery, or a jail, looking
at life as it is lived on this planet,
would we guess that God had won
a tremendous victory over the
powers of evil?
D-Day Is Mot V-Day
A theologian of our time, Oscar
Cullman has given an answer to
this in the simplest terms. We
Uve, he says, in the interval, so to
speak, between D-Day and V-Day.
All who can remember back to
June 6, 1944, remember the tre
mendous victory of that hard-
fought D-Day. But the war went
on for nearly a year after that.
Was D-Day, then, a failure? By
no means. With D-Day the war
was virtually won. The enemy had
little chance, after that; but it
ook a lot of fighting, and some of
it, like the Battle of the Bulge,
costly and disheartening. So we
are living, in the time between
Christ’s ascension and his coming
again in glory, as it were between
D-Day and V-Day. ’
What God Has Dona
What has hern accomplished by
God’s D-Day? One thing is, that
God’s power has been shown, once
and for all. Over and over in the
New Testament, especially in the
letters of Paul, the power with
which God raised Christ from the
dead is called the same power that
works in Christians. The victory
over sin and death which we see
in Christ, can be the hope and to
an increasing degree the exper
ience of our own Uvt s. ’There real
ly is a difference between living
in the world before Christ and af
ter. All that Christ was and did
and said, climaxed by the resurrec
tion, are ever before our minds if
we only think. Before Christ, no
one on earth really know what
God could do. Since Christ, men
of faith do know. ’The other achieve-
of said filling station, such con- ment of D-Day’s victory is, for us.
sent by the Town Council of the
Town of Southern Pines shall not
be given except by favorable
vote of three fourths of all the
members of the said Council of
the Town of Southern Pines.
This notice is published pursu
ant to instructions by the Town
Council of Southern Pines given
at its regular meeting on the 9th
day April, 1957.
WM. GARY HEAD
Town Clerk
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sharing in God’s certainty of vic
tory which finally shall be com-
plete. One of the easiest and subt
lest temptations into which we can
fall is to wonder whether God may
not at last be overwhelmed by a
universe which he created but can
not now control. Realizing what
D-Day means, we need never have
such fears.
What We Mast Oo
Calvary and Easter have prac
tical messages tor the Christian.
They are not mere admiration-
days, when we can sing happily
about what God has done. ’They
are chaDenge-days calling us to
thought, attitude, action, as befits
children of the mighty God. As for
death, we can see clear through
it. Christ has shown us the glory
on the other side. As for sin, Christ
bore our - sins with Him “to the
tree” as Peter said. The power
that wrought in Him is available
tor us in our struggles against evil
But there Is something more than
this. John Baillie speaks of our
era, between the time of Jesus
and the end of time, as “the years
of grace,” that the great task of
Christians is just the very thing
which Matthew leaves with his
readers as the climax of his story
of Christ. “All authority has been
given me . . therefore—(.sit down
and be at ease? wait quietly for
the end? spend youi time singing
my praises? no, none of these,) —
therefore GO. and Make Discip
les,” The going, winning Christian
is the one in whom the victory of
Easter moves on toward final tri
umph '
(Based on outlines oopyrlrhted by the
Division of Ch~Js*lan Education, Na-
'-■ r Counril f the Churches of Christ
.n th» V S. A. Ueleased by Community
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Tuesday — Mount Carmel
Route: Art Zenns, 10; Sandy
Black, 10:15; Lloyd Chriscoe,
10:30; E. F. M^itaker, 10:45; H.
A. Freeman, 11; Vernon Lisk,
11:15; John Davis, 11:30; Fred
Richardson, 11:45; Mrs. Herbert
Harris, 12; Mrs. Roberta Lawhon,
12:15; ’Tracy Seawell, 12:30; Miss
Rpmell Gorden, 12:45; S. E. Ban
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Pearl Frye, 1:30; Mrs. Joyce Hay
wood, 1:45; John Willard, 2; C.
L. Baldwin, 2:15.
Wednesday—Aberdeen School,
10; Roseland Route: Marvin
Hartsell, 12:30; Calvin Laton,
12:45; H. M. Kirk, 1; C. S. Galy-
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10:15; G. S. Williams, 10:30; Mrs.
Etta Morgan, 10:45; Audrey
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School, 12; Elise High School, 1;
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2:30.
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10:30; Danny Clark, 10:45; Lynn
Thomas, 11; Wesley ’Thomas,
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Yesterday, these four were their Mothers’
despair. Their faces were grimy, their play-
clothes spattered with mud. They were even
ready to put up their fists and fight when the
rivalry between spacemen and cowboys became
a little too keen.
Today, they are immaculate. They sing like
young angels. They even look like angels ... be
cause today is Easter! And these boys are pro
claiming the glorious message that Christ Is
Risen.
Easter is the time of promise, beauty, awe at
the miracle of birth and rebirth. Easter is the
time to let the joy of living seep into you. It
is the time to tell yourself that you believe ...
and, if there’s been any doubt about it, to sta^
believing again.
Spend part of your Easter in Church. Spend
the rest of it looking, with new eyes, at the
wonderland God has created around you.
the CHUBCH fob AU , . .
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lor on earth lor the building ol
character and good citizenship. It
« o storehouse ol spiritual values.
Without a strong Church, neither
=ivilization can
^tond semces regularly and sup-
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children’s sake. (3) For the sake
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
Chevee 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, 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 Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 p.m.
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
(Episdopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin CaldweU, 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 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 Ache
David Hoke Coon. Minister
Bible School, 9:45 aun. Worship
11 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.in.
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 pun.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERlAK
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 ajn.
Worship Service, 2nd and Sni
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 aun.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at
8 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY’S (CathoUe)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Dengee
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 « -™, ;
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a-m.«
weekday mass at 8 a-m. Confes
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 pjn.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
Robert L. Bame. Ministw
Church SchooL a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each third
Monday at 8 p. m.
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