THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
EDGE OF THE WOODS by
Heather Ross Miller (Atheneum
1964). A poet may weave designs
of beauty out of strange materi
als. This novel of life in the
Uwharrie Mountains area of
North Carolina is essentially that
of a poet in language and in the
ability to evoke far-reaching as
sociations from the familiar fea
tures of farm life. Here is an old
farmhouse on a summer after
noon—“All around the meadows
and fields shimmered with heat
. . . The house was drugged on
sunlight, subdued, deafened by
an ancient charm of time and the
slow, sure passing of the sea
sons.”
The story is told by Anna
Marie, a story of childhood im
pressions and of events that
shocked the child, events which
Anna Marie had kept shut close
within her until she married and
her growing love and trust in her
husband enabled her to unlock
the door and release them. The
dominant figure in the tale is
Paw Paw, Anna Marie’s • grand
father, a dour but powerful man
—“He was a stingy old man with
a soul of tempered steel, forged
and pressed out of the Southern
wilderness, born ^unwilling to a
life of proud poverty where his
heat of mind and proneness to
anger were his only inalienable
rights, his only pursuit of hap
piness.”
The author’s sensitiveness to
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her recollections of the physical
sensations of a child walking
barefoot in the warm dust or
waking on a frosty morning, plus
her compassionate probing of the
mysteries of the human spirit,
make this a rare book.
Heather Ross Miller grew up
in the Uwharrie country and
knows well those ancient hills
where deer stiU roam, the farms
of the bottomlands, the country
stores and churches. At the Uni
versity of North Carolina in
Greensboro she studied under
Randall Jarrell. Her verse has
appeared in several periodicals.
This is her first book.
THE AGE OF CHIVALRY by
Sir Arthur Bryant (Doubleday
$6.95), This is the second volume
in the series, THE STORY OF
ENGLAND. Written by the
eminent historian, Sir Arthur
Bryant, this book takes the story
from 1274 through one of the
most dramatic centuries in his-
tor.y.
The author sees it as “a crowd
ed and formative time that saw
the first evolution of Parliament,
the genesis of the legal profes
sion, the legislative reforms of
Edward I, ‘the English Justinian,’
and the beginnings of an English
establishment. . . From 1294 until
Richard II’s marriage with a
French princess more than a cen
tury later, England was almost
continuously at war with either
France, Scotland or Castile, and,
at times, with all three. These
years were fraught for her with
alternating achievement and
disaster. They saw her greatest
military defeat, Bannockburn,
and her most astonishing victory,
Crecy. On the morrow of that tri
umph she was struck down by a
calamity comparable to that
which would today follow a nu
clear war. Recurring three times
in a generation, the black death
halved England’s population.”
Despite wars and plague this
was also a great period in build
ing cathedrals and churches, and
it saw the genesis of the Inns of
Court, of Oxford and Cambridge
colleges and the emergence of
English as the national speech
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Letters Into Books
Lesson for October 4, 1964
with its literary expression in the
poetry of Chaucer.
Sir Arthur Bryant belongs to
the grand tradition of readable
English historians; he writes his
tory as literature in a form equal
ly acceptable to the specialist
and the layman. Reviews of the
first volume, “Makers of Eng
land,” were uniformly enthusi
astic about “the sheer compelling
sweep of his imagination” and
“the best kind of scholarship
which is painstaking and yet
avoids pedantry.” The second
volume fulfills the promise of the
first that we would have in these
books the best short history of
the English people. Sir Arthur
is now working on two more vol
umes of the series.
KING OF SQUAW MOUN
TAIN by Hal Borland (Lippin-
cott $4.5D). . This classic animal
story was originally published in
1938 as “Wapiti Pete.” In this
new edition Hal Borland, author
of “When the Legends Die” and
other fine books about the West,
has revised the text primarily to
clarify some matters of natural
history.”
It is the life story of a magnifi
cent bull elk in the Wind River
country of Wyoming—the adven
tures of his youth, his growth in
strength until one autumn he de
feats all challengers and becomes
leader of the herd. Then it tells
how he fought for his herd
through the years with the heart
of a hero and the craft of Ulysses.
Much of the story is told by an
artist who had gone to the moun
tains to paint and who watches
not only the elk but their dead
liest enemy, a greedy sheep own
er who brings in sheep by the
thousands and is gradually de
stroying the elk’s grazing land.
Hal Borland writes with all his
usual felicity of phrase and keen
appreciation of nature.
FAIRY ELVES, A Dictionary
of Little People with Some Old
Tales and Verses about Them by
Robin Palmer and Pelagie Doane
(Warlck $3.95). This is a treasure
for a person of any age who is
interested in fairy lore. From the
tomtes of Sweden to the rakshas
of India, the authors have gath
ered precise information on more
than forty species of fairy folk,
their sizes, shapes and habitat,
their temperaments and what
mortals may expect from them.
A picture accompanies each def
inition.
The tales and verses are also
rare pieces—at least, all but one
was new to me. From Germany
comes “The Honey Feast”; from
France, “Drak the Fairy;” from
Gotland, “The Troll’s Invitation”
and so on through a list that in
cludes many countries. The
stories are on the hearty side
and have substantial plots. They
are not for the very small child.
Aside from reading them your
self, pick an imaginative child
eight to twelve. A full page il
lustration in glowing colors il
lustrates each story and adlds
notably to the dramatic impact.
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Background Scripture: I Timothy 1:1-11;
II Timothy 1:1-2: Titus 1:1a. 4.
Devotional Reading: Philippians 2:14-24.
tiY^HAT IN the world were
T T you reading from?” one of
the congregation asked the preach
er. They had had a service of
ordination at which a number of
new church officers had been in
stalled, and the preacher had
read from the
New Testament
in a modern (Mof-
fatt’s) translation.
“I was reading
from First and
Second Timothy,”
the preacher re
plied to the man’s
question.
“Never heard
Dr. Foreman anything like it,”
the questioner went on. “Best
thing on church officers I ever
heard. I had had no idea what
Timothy and Titus were all
about.”
Who?
The short “Books” we call Tim
othy, Titus and Philemon, were
originally letters. Who wrote
them? This may not be the most
important question but it is one
of the most interesting. We run
head-on into long arguments when
we ask flatly: who wrote these
letters? (There’s no problem
about Philemon; we shall come
to that in time. 5ut Timothy I
and II, and Titus, present a prob
lem.) The early Christians who
adopted these books into the then
still growing New Testament (so
new it did not have a name)
thought that Paul wrote them.
Careful study given by many
scholars over many years has
shown, however, that in large
sections of these books the ideas
and the way they are expressed,
and—what is most remarkable—
the very words used, are distinct
ly different froin the known letters
of Paul. We can sum up the evi
dence by saying that there are
parts of these letters which read
(in Greek, the language in which
they of course were written) ex
actly like Paul and are almost
certainly from his pen and mind.
There are other sections which
do not read like Paul. A conclu
sion reached by many is that
either some one else wrote the
letters, quoting extensively from
Paul; or that Paul wrote the
original letters, and either he or
some editor added material from
some one else.
.What?
The what is more important
than the Who? What are these
letters-into-books concerned with?
What problems do they bring
out? What answers do they give?
What good are these very an
cient letters to the living church
today? Such questions will be
with us for the next three months.
We can give a sort of short state
ment here at the beginning as to
what these small books are all
about. They deal with leadership
in the church.
Why?
But why this interest in lead
ers, all of a sudden? The reason
is simple. The earliest Christians
had no formal organization. They
could not have conceived that
they would need one. For Jesus
was coming soon, they all thought.
Today in the church you may
hear the expressions like “our
children’s children” or “future
generations” or the “future of
man.” The earliest Christians
would have thought such expres
sions nonsense. But as time went
on and the church’s first leaders
grew to be old men, it was clear
that there would have to. be some
thinking done about the future
years. Some one had to pass on
the Gospel. Some one had to be
sure nothing of the good in the
early years of enthusiasm should
be lost. Some one had to. be in
charge. Some had to preserve
the tradition. Some one had to
make certain the teachings of
Christ and his apostles were not
forgotten nor distorted. Time was
passing—had indeed passed— '
when they could say, “We’ll dash
off a note to Paul or Peter or
some one who knew Jesus and
they’ll tell us.” A new generation
was growing up. It was felt then,
and it is true today, that Chris
tianity could go to nothing, in one
generation, unless wise plans were
made. So the usefulness of these
“Pastorals” is as new as the con
tinuing need for Christian lead
ers for every generation.
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