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By LOCKIE PARKEH
SILVER PLATTER. A Por
trait of Mrs. John Mackay by
Ellin Berlin (Doubleday $4.95!.
Ellin Mackay Berlin is the wile
of Irving Berlin and the daugh
ter of Clarence Mackay. She is
the author of “Lace Curtains”
that dealt with a later period in
the family history tiian this one.
This book is about her grand
mother, Louise Huntington
Mackay whose story is quite a
Cinderella tale. It begins with
Louise as a small girl helping to
deliver her mother’s sewing to the
“grande dames” of Washington
Square. It was always her dream
to be like them and live in the
same kind of beautiful home.
This dream went with her to
the mining town of Virginia City
where her father, alter a distin
guished Etrmy career, set up his
barber shop. Her mother contin
ued to sew. Louise helped her
and became so expert that even
tually, when her first husband
deserted her, she was able to
support herself and her little
girl, Eva. Her second miarriage
was tp John Mackay who was al
ready a successful miner. Even
tually he with his partners de
veloped the Conjstock Lode from
which flowed so many millions
that the Mackays never had to
consider the cost of anything.
John encouraged Louise in o. her
social ambitions for herself and
her family.
Her first major effort was in
New York where she went with
letters of introduction from John
to his business friends. These did
not help her as the men’s wives
snubbed her and even made fun
of her. Always undaunted she
went on to fabulous success in
Paris and London, so that when
she finally came back to Amer
ica, these same women were
among the first to seek her fav
ors. Through it all, her hard life
and struggles in the mining
camps and her later social suc-
ce.ss, she never lost her fine sense
of duty to her parents and fam
ily, nor her loving heart. We get
from this book a sympathetic
picture of a beautiful and fascin
ating woman. Mrs. Berlin has
written a moving prologue and
an epilogue in the form of letters
to her grandmother.
--JANE H. TOWNE
GERTRUDE STEIN, Her Life
and Work by Elizabeth Sprigge
(Harper $5.00). In the buoyant
days of the twenties when liter-
, ature in America had such an ef
florescence of little magazines,
boid publishers and new writers,
the name of Gertrude Stein was
one to conjure with. Personally
I could never read her work with
any satisfaction until in her latf
ter years her prose became rel
atively normal as in “Wars I
Have Known.” I did once hear
an early play set to music by
Virgil lliomson, and the repeti
tions and rhythms took on sig
nificance with this treatment,
but I still could not take her
work as straight reading. yet
here was a writer greatly ad
mired by other authors such as
Sherwood Anderson, Carl Van
Vechten and later Hemingway
and Scott Fitzgerald. It remained
a, mystery to me and so I open
ed this book about her life and
work with considerable curiosity.
Miss Sprigge is deeply devoted
to her subject and has been ex
plaining Gertrude Stein to lec
ture audiences m England for
some years as well as producing
her plays at the “48 theatre,” so
she knows what people find dif
ficult and has endeavored to
make clear Miss Stein’s theories
on writing as well as to give us
a vivid view of an unusual per
sonality. On the whole she has
been successful. I shall not rush
right off to read the thousand
pages of “The Making of Ameri
cans,” but I do see how the
young woman who had been a
favorite pupil of William Jamtes,
who had come to Paris in the
days when artists of genius were
discarding the old modes of
painting and moving from Im
pressionism to Cubism would be
bound to try* new forms of ex
pression in her own medium
which was words. To some who
were deep in the problems of
writing themselves, her work
was a revelation and an inspira
tion. Sherwood Anderson wrote,
“For me the work of Gertrude
Stein consists in a rebuilding
and entire new recasting of life,
in the city of words.”
Even aside fromi her work this
is a favorite biography of an
imusual woman. From her un-
convential childhood in Califor-
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nia, her student days, the first
menage in, Paris with her broth
er, Leo, until her death in that
same beloved city, she led a full
and active life, talked with
painters and poets, critics and
philosophers, and was equally
companionable with peasants
and “doughboys.” Virgil 'Thom
son once said, “There were many
Gertrudes, the neighbor Ger
trude, a l>omely, pleasant, coun
trywoman, the Dr. Johnson Ger
trude, laying down the law. .
giving her opinion on everything,
and Gertrude, the hermetic poet,
hardworking, hmnble.” We see
something of all in this book.
THE EYE OF LOVE by Mat
gery Sharp (Lillie, Brown $3.95).
The theme of this novel is a ten
der and humorous one,—^how
differently people may appear
to those who see them with “the
eye of love” than they do to the
rest of us. Miss Sharp has han
dled the theme with skill and
delicacy but has some difficulty
in getting enough out of it to
make a full length novel, so that
the situations seem too drawn
out.
Her middle-aged lovers are a
stout business man, who is in the
fur trade but not doing too well,
and a thin, black-haired girl who
is plucked from behind a haber
dasher’s counter at the ripe age
of twenty-nine to become his
mistress. The story begins ten
years later when the two stiU
deeply in love find their little
paradise menaced by pressure of
economic and social forces. It is a
tribute to Miss Sharp’s uncom
mon skill that you become gen
uinely sympathetic with these
unglamorous characters and ul
timately very concerned that
Dolores should get back her
King Hal” and he never be
parted again from his “Spanish
Rose.”
Running side by side with this
theme and surely sjrmbolic of it
is the story of an artist,—a child-
artist but very much an artist—
who sees beauty in such unex
pected places as a grating in the
gutter or a gas oven. Martha is a
stolid chUd, con>pletely unsenti
mental, and usually absorbed in
drawing or admiring abstract
forms. This makes her an excel
lent foil to her romantic and
emotional aunt, and adds to the
copiedy of the situation.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Background Serlpture:
18:1—19:29.
Devotional Beading: Luke 11:1-13.
In a Bad World
Lesson for May 19,1957
Dr. Foreman
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■^HIS world we’re in may be a
bad one, but it never gets so
bad we can’t pray. The worse it is,
the more reason to pray. There is
a story in the Bible which shows
a good man at prayer in an evil
world. There are many such stories
in the Bible, to be sure. The one
which has been selected for our
study is that of
Abraham plead
ing for the cities
of Sodom and Go
morrah. No man
of his time was
better than Abra
ham. No city of
those times was
worse than Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Yet this good man
prayed for those
There have always been puzzlers in
this story, but they are not the
main point. That point has nothing
to do with such questions as “How
can God eat hot bread and veal
roast?” or “How could Abraham
see God if it is true (see John 1:18)
that no man has seen God at any
time? The point of the story, for
us, is the kind of prayer a good
man can offer, in and for an evU
world.
Realistic
First of all, Abraham’s prayer
shows that he had no illusions about
Sodom and Gomorrah. They were
cities which he preferred to stay
away from, cities notorious for
wickedness unashamed. We do not
know how many thousand persons
there may have been in Sodom, but
Abraham ventures to think that in
the whole city there may perhaps
be 50 righteous persons. Abraham’s
series of prayers in which he begs
the Lord to spare the city for the
sake of fifty—then 45—40—30—^20—
10 good people, is often taken as a
sign of Abraham’s growing faith in
God. But it can just as weU stand
for Abraham’s decreasing faith in
Sodoii. At the end, he would not
dare ask God to spare the city for
“twenty’s sake,”—it is plain that
he was very doubtful that there
might be even that number of good
citizens. Children may pray as if
there were no evil in the world; but
grown men even in their prayers
must realize what kind of world
they live in. Our Lord’s Prayer
mentions temptation and evil as
real and dangerous, even for good
men.
Generous
Abraham’s prayer is not only
realistic, it is generous. Readers of
the Bible wiU remember Jesus’
story of the Pharisee who in his
prayer recalled the publican—^no
model citizen. But to the Pharisee
the publican was not a man to be
prayed for, only a man to be de
spised, Now Abraham was far bet
ter than the citizens of Sodom, if
they were good at all, which seems
doubtful; and he was better too
than his relative. Lot, for whose
sake he was chiefly praying. But he
prays for them all the same. His
prayer is of the highest sort—not
for himself at all, but for others.
The reader'can test his religion by
the kind of prayer he offers. One
can ask oneself: How often do I
pray for myself and how often for
others? When I do pray for others,
is it for good people only? Are my
prayers an expression of selfish
ness, or can I offer generous pray
ers? How long has it been since I
prayed for any one I didn’t really
like?
Daring
Abraham’s prayer is humble; but
it is also daring. Most of our pray
ers are safe; Abraham realizes
that his is risky. It almost involves
throwing a challenge to God: Shall
not the judge of all the earth do
right? This man realizes that he
may actually be praying against
God’s will. He may be praying for
the wrong thing entirely. But that
does not stop him. He dares to be
lieve that God was interested in a
very small minority of good people.
He dares to pray beyond his hopes,
beyond his knowledge . . . but not
beyond God. The God in whom Ab
raham believed, the God Abraljam
knew, was not like men. He did not
—and he does not—share man’s
prejudices, man’s pride. A man,
even a good man, prides himself on
not helping the unworthy; but
God’s mercy is untainted by con
ceit. Do we dare believe that God
is just? Do we dare believe he will
do the fair thing, or do we try to
argue him into doing what we want
even if it is not quite fair? Do we
dare believe that God is merciful?
or to pray fof those who wiU not
pray for themselves? Do we pray
only for sure things, or do we dare
go so far as to pray even when we
fear that we may be asking too
much? Can we stand and take God’s
No (as Abraham had to) and still
hold our faith in Him?
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Pearl Frye, 1:30; Mrs. Joyce Hay
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H. M. Kirk, 1:45; C. S. Galyean,
2; Colonial Hts., 2:15; Mrs. J. J.
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Heres a handsome, happy family marching through the
open doors of a church. But what will they find inside?
A lovely sanctuary? Perhaps; A congenial group of people?
Perhaps. An inspiring sermon and beautiful music? Perhaps.
All these they may possibly find inside. But here is what
they will certainly find.
• A group of people banded together by a common faith for a
common purpose ...
• Assurance that there is a God who cares and loves ...
• Direction for the perplexities that each day brings ...
• A demand to live as Cod would have them live ...
• A CTOss as the divine source of faith, hope and love ...
And if you go to church next Sunday, that’s what YOU’LL
certainly find too!
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
Chores K. Ligon, Minist^
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 pun.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Ave.
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.in.
Reading Room in Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 pjiL
iriE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP (Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 ajn.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 pun.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
EE\st 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.
Yoimg Peoples’ &rvice League,
6 p. m.
Holy Conununion, Wednesdays
and Holy Days, 10 a.in. 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 pun.
Evening Worship, 8 p.m.
Scout "Troop'224, Monday, 7:30.
p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednes
day 7:30 p.m.; choir pra^ice
Wednesday 8:15 pan.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and f^ily suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 pun.
MANLY PRESBYTERlAK
CHURCH ^
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3r4i
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourib
Sunday morning, 11 a.m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at
8 pun.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 n.m }
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.m.;
weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confee-
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 pun.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
Robert L. Bame, Minister
Church School, 9:49 aun.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each third
Monday at 8 p. ol
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