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Friday, July 18. 1952
Talbot Johnsons Tour Scotland With
Dr. Donald MacKinnon As Their Guide
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Visit Lady Chieftain
Of McLeod Clan At
800-Year-01d Castle
Following a tour of the Scandi
navian countries, Mr. and Mrs. J.
Talbot Johnson have been visit
ing Scotland. Friends here will
enjoy Mr. Johnson’s account, be
low, of an “ancestor hunt’’ which
led along the wrong trail, and a
meeting with friends who were
last seen at Old Bethesda Church
homecoming last summer.
June 27, 1952
I am writing aboard the ship
Lochness, while enroutfe from
South Uist to Oban, where Mrs.
Johnson remained for \hree days
rest, while I made brief visits to
the Isle of Barra and the Isle of
South Uist.
Barra, as you know, is the an
cient stronghold of the ■ “Mac-
Neils.” I went there hoping to get
some early history on my branch
of the McNeill family, but soon
learned that I was following the
wrong trail. 1 should have gone to
the islands of Islay and Jura, for
the Barra “MacNeils” have al
ways spelled their names with one
“1”, and all are of the Catholic
faith, having bfeen isolated from
the spell of John Knox, and not
having been affected by the ref
ormation. The McNeills of Islay
and Jura all spell their names
with two “I’s” and all are staunch
Presbyterians.
I, however, very much enjoyed
Barra, and* feel well rewarded for
the two days spent on the island.
Nearly every one is named “Mac-
Neil,” and all were most cordial
and courteous to me. One by one,
I visited every store in Castle
Bay, which is the largest town on
the island, gleaning all the infor
mation and lore that I could elicit.
Then I visited in the homes of
several of the best informed cit
izens, where I would be delight
fully entertained with tea and
scones served in the kitchen.
Their kitchens are usually com
bination sitting rooms, dining
rooms and place lor cooking. It
seemed strange to find settees and
deep armchairs in the kitchen,
but they were most comfortable
and spotlessly clean. This custom
springs from the fact that fuel is
scarce and in the bitter cold win
ters the kitchen is the warmest
room in the house. It is still very
cold on Barra and I slept under
two blankets and two quilts each
night, fortified further with a hot
water jug at my feet.
The most interesting man I met
lives on the northerly side of the
island. He is known by all as
‘The Coddy, the uncrowned King
of Barra.” His word is tantamount
to the law of the island and he
wields a large influence. He looks
much like our Mark Twain and is
apparently highly educated. He
Bookmobile
Schedule
Monday—^Through Niagara to
Union churo*i (H. R. Bryant
home), 2 p. m.; paved road to Vass
with various Jibme stops and
Thurlow Evans’ store, 2:15 to 4;
stop in Negro section just out of
Vass, 4; W. F. Smith home, 4:30.
Tuesday—Doubs Chapel road
from Donald Garrison home to
jet. with West End road at Haw
ley Poole home; back to Eastwood
with various stops (1:30 to 4:30
p. m.).
Wednesday—Eagle Springs, 1:20
to 1:50; Jackson Springs, W. E.
Graham home, 2; postoffice, 2:30
to 2:50; West End, 3:15 to 4:30.
Thursday — Carthage library,
11:30 tO' 12:30; J. R. Kelly home,
1:15; Joe Pressley home near
Cole’s mill 1:30; R. F. WiUcox, 2,
Putnam, 2:30; High Falls, 2:50 to
3:30; Will Inman home, 3:40; C. F.
Wicker home, 4.
Friday—Cossie Garner service
station on Hy, 705, 12:45; West-
moor e community, 1 to 2. Arthur
Baldwin store, 2:15 to 2:30; Jug
town, 2:45; _ Needham Grove
Pope AFB Team Wins Division Title
In Air Force Tourney At Pine Needles
The team from Pope Air Force"* __
Page Three
Internattonal Unl^onb
Sunday &hooi Lwwna
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By DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE: Judges 6:1—8:28
DEVOTIONAL ReTaDING: Psalm 47.
church, 3:15.
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key Galore” in this country. He
also took a part in the picture and
if J. B. hasn't yet shown this pic
ture, I do hope he will wait until
we get home.
I especially enjoyed visiting the
ruins of old Kismul Castle, reput
ed to be one of the oldest castles
in Scotland. It was here, so the
story goes, that the Chieftain of
the “Mac Neil” Clan declined an
invitation from Noah to sail with
him in the Ark, saying “Na
thanks, I have a boat of me own.”
Some of them believe this today.
The castle tower is 200 feet high
and contains many trap doors
from which large stones would
fall on the heads of the enemy in
time of siege.
In Edinburgh we were joined by
Dr. Donald MacKinnon as our
guide and Rev. Alasdair Johns
ton as our driver. Our friends will
remember Dr. MacKinnon as the
distinguished speaker at our last
Homecoming at old Beth
esda. He was a superb guide, for
he knows Scotland as we at home
know Moore county. For seven
days we visited points of interest
on the mainland and the Isle of
Skye, where Dr. MacKinnon was
pastor for 20 years and knows
every crock and cranny.
Together we virtually retraced
the steps of “Bonnie Prince Char
lie” from Glenfinn, where he first
raised his banner until > he 'set
sail from Arisaig for France. We
visited the point where Flora
M:acdonald landed him on Skye
in assisting in his escape. W^e spent
one night at Fladigarry, where
Flora and her husband, Allan
Macdonald, lived for ten years,
and where their children were
born. The house still stands-and
is in excellent state of preserva
tion. We also visited Flora’s
grave, which is a shrine.
But the most interesting place
we have visited was Dunvegan
Castle, the ancient home of the
MacLeods. This castle is approxi
mately 800 years old and has been
in continuous operation through
out this period, and has been mod
ernized in many respects. Through
the kindness and generosity of
Mrs. Flora MacLeod, who is “The
McLeod of McLeod,” the 28th
Chieftain of Clan McLeod, we
were invited for dinner and to
spend the night in the castle.
Never before have we been so
royally -or elegantly entertained.
Nor have we ever met a more
charming person than Lady Mc
Leod. She has the grace, charm,
wit and personality of Eleanor
Roosevelt and the same type of
brilliance.
We shall never forget this oc
casion and we are so hopeful that
we can in'some way arrange for
her to address one of our home
coming meetings at Bethesda. She
says that she will be glad to come
if we could arrange for a meeting
of the McLeod Clan for North
Carolina.
Our sojourn through Scotland
has been rendered more pleasant
by reason of the pattern set for
us by the Edwin McKeithens. It’s
really uncanny how often we
have followed in their train. By
strange coincidence we rented the
identical Standard-Vanguard car
they had used in their tour two
weeks before. At several hotels in
which we stopped we were greet
ed by the clerk with the informa
tion that they had recently had
the pleasure of entertaining a
couple from “the States,” by the
name of McKeithen—.who, of
course, proved to be Edwin and
Norman. The same was true in
Portree and also at Dunvegan
Castle. Now we find we have a
room at a hotel in Oban, which
is the very next door to the room
assigned to them.
I could go on with this offhand
rambling for hours, but feel that
I really must stop right here.
With best of good wishes to aU
our friends at home let me say.
Sincerely,
J. TALBOT JOHNSON.
Hero, Artist, Saint
Lesson for July 20, 1952
Dr Foreman
•pHE GREAT TRAGEDY of life is
* that man has three Incompatible
Ideals. So says a famous thinker of
our time. These three are the hero,
the artist, the saint. The hero’s vir
tue is strength; the artist’s is
beauty, and the Saint’s Is holiness
A hero, in the
course of his heroic
acts, does things
which would stain
the honor of a saint
and which are too
ugly for a sensitive
artist even to think
about. Saints on the
other hand are often
most unheroic; they
“wax valiant” in
submission, not in
fight; and they often care very
little for beauty. Artists likewise
may be personal cowards and live
anything but saintly lives. Yet so
ciety needs all three, though the
values one cherishes may be just
the opposite of what the other
prizes. Very rarely, the same man
may show traces of artist, saint and
hero.
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Hero Gideon
^HE WORD “judge”, In the Book
of Judges usually means what
we would call a hero, a military
man with a successful record. Then,
as now, if a man made good in the
army he was after thought of as an
army man. His title and his rank
stuck to him his life long.
We think of General Grant as an
army 'man, and of Lee as another;
though one was President of the
United States and the other one a
distinguished college president.
So Gideon comes down in his
tory as one of the “Judges” who
delivered Israel from a power
ful enemy. This time the enemy
was the Midianites, a roaring
nuisance if ever there was one.
Midianites were nomads, they
lived where they pleased, and
they lived off the peaceful farm
ers wherever they were.
There were so many that their
army looked like a swarm of lo
custs. Iliey were seen only once a
year, but that was enough. They
would wait out in the wilderness
until the crops were ready for har
vest; then they would dash into the
country, raid every t,arm from bor
der to border, and skip out again,
leaving the Israelites on the edge
of starvation for another year.
How Gideon, a small farmer and
a tiniid soul by nature, became the
hero who nearly exterminated the
Midianites and set his people free,
is one of the most fascinating tales
in the Old Testament. The people
loved him and remembered him for
that one thing above all: he could
fight!
base, staying in the lead all the
way, last Friday was acclaimed
winner of the Southeastern Divi
sion championship at the close of
a five-day tournament on the Pine
Needles course.
The division tournament fol
lowed a district tournament, also
at Pine Needles, in which the
Pope team was the winner. Both
were preliminaries to the World
wide US Air Fol’ce tournament to
be held next month at Maxwell
AFB, Alabama.
In the Soiftheastern Division
tournament, covering all states
south of the Mason-Dixon line and
east of the Mississippi river, the
Pope players rolled up an aggre
gate score of 1,884 for the 72-hole
total. The team from Elgin AFB,
Alabama, was second with 1,938.
Winner of the individual! cham-
pionship was Staff Sgt. Jack E.
Payton cf McDill AFB, Florida,
with a score of 287 for 72 holes.
Pajrton turned in a sub-par 67 on
the final round to finish 10 strokes
ahead of his closest rival, Maj.
Walt Davidson of Pope.
Third place player was Maj.
Chuck Alexander, also of Pope,
brother of famed golf pro Skip
Alexander of Durham. His score
cf 300 was just one stroke ahead
of the fourth-place man. Tech.
Sgt. Russell Chaffman of Maxwell
AFB.
Capt. Hale Baugh of MteDill
AFB finished in fifth place with
306.
The two Air Force tournaments
were major highlights of the sea
son on the local course. John Sem
ple is managing the Pine Needles
club during the summer months.
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It’s FU N to be UiVl
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This is Janiefs favorite dress. Her mother
made it especially for her to wear to Sim-
<^y{ School, and Janie is pleased as any
little girl to show it to you.
Not long ago, on the way home from
church, Janie heard her daddy say, "1 feel
like a new man. I’ve put off the old and put
on the new.”
Janie looked, but she didn’t see anything
uyw—^tiie same neat suit—the same Sunday
tie. His shirt was even a little rough around
: thc Collar. “Daddy, where’s any
thing new?”
Her father chuckled. “Honey, it’s
all inside, but it’s bursting out the
seams of my everyday life. You
don’t have to have new clothes to be
a new man. Yon just stop worrying
and have faith. You pray, then go
around smiling. That’s what’s
new about your daddy—his
faith.”
“And I’ve found it all just
since' we began going to
church every Sunday.”
I
Gideon the Artist
•nHERE ARE MORE WAYS than
one to be artistic. General Gid
eon painted no pictures, carved no
statues, wrote no poems. But he was
an artist all the same. There is
something artistic about any good
workmanship ,and it is as true of
military campaigns as of everything
else.
Incidentally, generals have a
temptation to overlook this. At the
Battle of Fredericksburg in the
American Civil War. when the
northern ^my was marching into
the grinding trap which Lee and his
generals had prepared, Lee re
marked that it’s a good .thing war
is so terrible, otherwise we should
become too fond of it. He was speak
ing from the general’s viewpoint, of
course. The private is seldom in
danger of being too fond of war.
At all events Gideon’s cam
paigns were just as “beautiful”
in all details as anything Na
poleon, Lee, Hitler or Hannibal
ever invented.
Can a hero be an artist? In his
way, yes; like any other craftsman,
he can do a necessary, rough and
dirty piece of work in a way that
calls out the exclamation: Beauti
ful!
Saint Gideon
C AN A SOLDIER be a saint? If
you mean by “saint” the ideal
of what a Christian should be, most
would say No. General Lee said at
the end of his life that if he had it
to live over again he would not be a
soldier.
And still, the writer of the
letter to the Hebrews in the
New Testament does not hesi
tate to list Gideon, and even
that half-hero Barak, right along
with the rest in his list of high
saints, the men and women of
Faith.
For fundamentally it is faith that
makes the saint. And Gideon was a
man of sturdy faith. To paraphrase
Tennyson, his strength was as the
strength of ten, because his faith
was pure. So there have been count
less men whose profession Is arms
who have also been men of faith.
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