THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1959
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North CJarolina
Page Three
Some Looks
At Books
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By LOCKIE PARKER
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES,
Whal I Learned in Russia by
Adlai E. Stevenson (Harper
$2.95). I hope ir.any people read
this fresh and thought-provok
ing account of one man’s experi
ences in Russia because it makes
such a clear distinction between
official attitudes and those of
people, especially ordinary peo
ple. Mr. Stevenson was there at
a time of great international ten
sion, our marines had just land
ed in Lebanon, the Soviet press
was protesting and reported that
“all the working people (of the
U.S.S.R.) are wrathfully con
demning the American aggres
sion,” yet h.2 met everywhere
with the warmest of welcomes,
courtesy, friendliness. More than
that, he felt a surprising kinship
with these people, especially in
the agricultural districts, and
quite agreed with a Russian en
gineer who had spent some time
in the United States and said he
“returned convinced that if you
dressed Americans and Russiaiis
alike you could not tell them
apart.”
Of course, Mr. Stevenson had
interviews, too, with the highest
officials and he gives candid ac
counts of these talks, the points
on which they could agree, such
as avoiding war and developing
better political relations between
the two countries, and usually
utter disagreement over specific
means of attaining these ends.
Yet even here the Russians
seemed personally to regret this
and it was in a melancholy tone
that Krushchev himself said
after a discussion of the Middle
East, “See how far we stand
from one another, at opposite
poles.”
The author nowhere shows the
_ least confidence in the predic
tions of the early collapse of the
Soviet system from internal
weaknesses, that we hear from
some of our columnists and com
mentators. He considers that the
achievements of this regime in a
generation have been magnifi
cent in industrialization, educa
tion, science, and that the ma
jority of the people are aware
of this and proud of it. He also
finds them working eagerly and
devotedly—more so than we—to
make their country still better.
There are weaknesses, of course,
and some dissatified people.
There is the great question of
China and the unrest in the sat
ellite countries of Eastern Eu
rope. But there is also the very
positive and dynamic thrust for
ward of a vigorous people.
This book is too modest
“give you all the answers,”
these firsthand views of a keen
observer are worth pondering,
and Mr. Stevenson gives you his
own conclusions.
DEAR AND GLORIOUS
PHYSICIAN by Taylor CaldweU
(Doub^eday $3.95). This author
who made her debut with “Dy
nasty of Death” has always loved
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Sunday School Laaaona
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Bible Hsterlal: Nsrk 14:S8 through
15:16.
Devotional Beading: Psalm 22:1-19.
Jesus’Trial
LesaMin for March 15,1959
Aberdeen Caucus
Slated April 7
Aberdeen, which still nomi
nates its candidates for mayor
and town board by the caucus
system, will hold its caucus Tues
day, April 7, preliminary to the
municipal election May 5.
The caucus will be held at the
town hall.
Dr. E. M. Medlin is mayor of
Aberdeen, a position he has held
for many years.
a big canvas and a theme of ■ 10:40-10:45; Clyde Auman, 10:50-
more than domestic interest. HerfU; W. E. Jackson, 11:10-11:15; R.
L. Blake, 11:20-11:30; E. Vest,
11:35-11:45; Arnold Thomas,
- - 11:50-12; Joyce Haywood, 12:05-
vivid and plausible 12:15; Mrs. Jeanette Turnage,
latest novel is no exception. Not
only has she taken as her hero
the Apostle Luke but she has
given us a
picture of that confused and
troubled era, the declining vigor
of Rome, the permeation of East--
ern mysticism into the Empire,
the pride of the conquered
Greeks, the prevalence of slav
ery, the scepticism of the sophis
ticated and the hunger of good
men for a faith that would sus
tain them.
Lucanus, later called Luke,
is shown first as a Greek
youth—he was the only Apostle
who was not a Jew—a youth of
unusual beauty and intelligence
with a special attachment to the
“Unknown God” of the Greeks.
He dedicates himself to'the serv
ice of this god and humanity as
a physician, falls deeply in love
with a girl who dies at the age of
fourteen, turns away from a god
who permits this and similar
sufferings and resolves to thwart
him by saving his victims from
pain and death as often as pos
sible in his capacity as physician.
We follow Luke through these
dark days, see him becofne a great
physician but still a rebellious
and somber soul. Then we see
him attracted to the story of
Christ and recognizing at last in
Him the God he was seeking.
There follows the pilgrimage
through Judea where Luke seeks
out and questions all who had
known Jesus or heard him preach
and finally he writes the Gospel
of St. Luke. Here is a story
which makes the men and wom
en of the first century come
alive and seem close to us in
thqir griefs and joys.
THE SECRET OF CROSS
BONE HILL by Wilson Gage
(World $2.95), Here is a pleasant
tale of adventure for the eight
to twelve-year-olds. The Vance
family go to spend a summer on
the Carolina coast. In the
swamps behind the coast looms
Crossbone Hill. When David and
Kathy find an old map in a
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Friday, Mar. 20, Westmoore
Route: 10:-11; Westmoore
School, 11:10-11:20;M. E. Stutts,
11:25-11:35; W. J. Brewer, 11:40-
11:50; Roland Nall, 11:55-12:05;
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bird’s nest, they suspect buried
treasure there. And when they
see lights flashing at night on
Crossbone Hill, they believe
someone else is after it. Their
own attempt to locate the treas
ure produced some hair-raising
experiences. They found ' no
treasure but they did find some
thing else. There is a fine back
ground of wild life in the
swamps as well as the excite
ment of a mystery.
SOMETHING SPECIAL by
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
(Harcouxl $2.25).
“Keep a picture in your pocket
and a poem in your head
and you’ll never feel lonely
at night when you’re in bed.”
This is the first of a new group
of genuinely childlike verses full
of humor, imagination and in
teresting sensations that small
children - will recognize and
lucky grown-ups may remem
ber. Each page is appropriately
illustrated by Irene Haas who
has happily caught the spirit of
the verses. In fact her drawings
are first-rate on their own—see
the little girl feeding a sugar
lump to a hungry horse or not
feeding one to an angry lion.
How Come?
SEEMS THERE WAS THIS MAN and he al
ways knew all the answers: knew who was do
ing what, and where, and even sometimes, why.
How Come?
Could be because he read The Pilot regularly:
never missed an issue.
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T he COURT tries the prisoner,
or so it is Intended. Sometimes
his story reverses the court’s Ver
dict. In such cases, those who look
back at the trial can see that the
prisoner was really trying the
court. That is to say, in the eyes
of posterity and (we may well be
lieve) often of
God himself,
every one con
nected with the
trial will be
judged by his at
titude to the pris-
oner; not the
other way
around.
Joan of Arc,
for example, had Foreman
a spectacular trial. She was con-
denrned and cruelly executed, ap
parently to every one’s approval.
But today she Is called a Saint.
Students of her life and times feel
that If any one In that grim court
room where her death was decreed
deserved to die, it was not she, but
some who betrayed her, some who
judged her.
Th* Judga’s QuMtien
Jesus’ trial before Pilate is the
supreme example of such an up
side-down trial. If cmy one had
asked the governor that evening
' how he thought history would rank
him and his yoimg prisoner of that
morning, he would have smiled his
grim Roman smile and perhaps
said, "Hmph! History will not be
Interested. But If history wants to
know, It's on the record. I had the
man executed. That settles It,
doesn’t it?” Pilate could not have
known that his own sole claim to
fame would be the fact that every
seven days, all over the world. In
hundreds of languages, men and
women would repeat the words al- i
most like a curse .. . “and In Jesus 1
Christ his oifly Son our Lord, who i
. . . suffered under Pontius Pilate.”
In the course of that wicked
farce of a trial, Pilate asked a
question which has more echoes
than he guessed: “Then what shall
I do with Jesus?” That is the
question by which the participants
in that trial were Judged; it is the
question that judges us today.
What will you do with Jesus ?
The Mob’s vAnsww
Pilate asked the wrong people
what to do with Jesus. He was the
judge, he had the responsibility..
He never would have thought of!
asking a Jewish mob for advice
ion statesmanship or anything elsel
Yet he goes througi|i the bitter
farce erf asking a moH a brainless
bloodthirsty mob, what to do with
(this innocent prironer. The crowd
thought they were passing sen
tence; but they were only passing
sentence on themselves. The voice
•of the people is not the verdict of
history, it is not the voice of truth
nor the voice (rf God. Sometimes
it is; hut not there and then, not in
Jerusalem. Mobs have voices, they
have wills, they may have weap
ons; the one thing they do not
have is brains, judgment, wisdom.
The verdict of history, verdict of
God, is seldom in favor of the mob.
The Fact-Finders
Of course, even a mob’s voice has
some brains behind it. In this case
lit was that dignified combination
of chief priests and elders and
scribes. These were Pilate’s fact
finders. Pilate Was a typical
Roman; he cared less than nothing
for local customs, superstitions,
notions. He did not pretend to un
derstand why this Jesus should be
the object of so much hate. When
Pilate said, "What evU has he
done?” It is very possible that he
was not “stalling for time” but
really was puzzJed to know. The
scribes and the dders and the chief
priests were Ws fact-finders, his
research team when cases came up
out of their courts—and such'
occasions were rare. If some in
quiring reporter lias adeed some
of those chief priests, the after
noon of Good Friday, what part
they had in the trial, they would
perhaps have said with pride, “We
were there. We influenced the re
sult. We were consulted. We gave
the advice that chang;ed the gov
ernor’s mind. That Jesus might
have been at large this minute, if
it had not been for us.”
But is was murder all the same.
For these fact-finders had no facts.
All they had was prejudice, emo
tion, name-calling. They influemsedi
the result; but not with, truth. Caa;
we say we are nwer guil^ of their'
crime?
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Some day, though, I will be big. Some day this
game might be real, ’cause even the biggest bad man
was once a little boy. And who knows what made him
go wrong? That’s why early training is so important
In church and Bible school we learn about God’s
kindness and love, and how we can trust Him for
the things we need. We learn to want to help others,
instead of hurting them.
Encourage the children you know to learn all
the good they can. Make church and Bible school
your family custom—please.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCfl
New York Ave. at South Aahe St*
Maynard Mangnm, Minister
6ible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m.
Training Union, 6:30 p.m. Evening Wdir-
ship. 7 :30 p.m.
Youth Fellowship, 8:30 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30 p.m.;
mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:80 p.m.;
choir practice Wednesday 8:16 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and third Tues
days. 8 p.m. Church and family supiiers,
second Thursday, 7 p;m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Avenue
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Building open
Wedne^ay 3-6 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Malcolm Anderton, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m; Worship Serv
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8 p.m., second Tues. Mid-week Service on
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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 People?' Service League, 6 p.m.
Holy Communion, Wednesdays and Holy
Days, 10 a.m. and I^iday, 9 :30.
Saturday—6 p.m. Penance.
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Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Sunday Masses: 8 and 10:80 a.m.; Daily
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Men's Club Meetings: 1st & 3rd Fridays
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Women's Club meetings :• Ist Monday.
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«Cor. Bennett and New Hanpahiro
Carl EL Wallace^ Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service. 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fellowship
(Young People).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum,
BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
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Cheves K. Ligon, Minister
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Mid-week service. Wednesday. 7:15 p.m.
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Worship Service, 11 a.m.
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