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FRIDAY. MARCH 25. 1955
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
page; three
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
A TRAIN OF POWDER by Re
becca West (Viking $3.75). Rebec
ca West writes uncommonly well
and she has something to say. She
is profoundly concerned with two
things—^moral values and people.
With these preoccupations, her re
ports on familiar events t?ke on a
depth and color that make these
events something to ponder over,
something significant in man’s
struggle to build a civilized socie
ty.
This book is concerned with ef
forts to enforce law—the Nurem-
burg trials, the occupation of Ger
many with its effects on the Ger
man people and the Allied offi
cials, a trial in South Carolina of
thirty-one men for the lynching of
a Negro youth, and two English
trials, one for murder and one for
. treason.
In an age when so much is ex
plained, so much shrugged off as
the inescapable result of socio-
psychological factors, it is bracing
to find someone who, though
deeply aware of these factors, ha^
thought through them to certain
fundamental principles on which
our society is built and which are
worth fighting to maintain. Pri
mary among these is LAW—the
law that preserves the state but
that also protects the individual
from the state and from the pas
sions and prejudices of his fel
lows.
Watching these courts at work,
whether international or local.
Miss West sees how ineptly they
often operate, how the human be
ings administering them are as
feeble and foolish as the rest of
us, how justice is not always
achieved and yet how important
it is that the courts should be
there.
Most awkward, most uneasy of
all because operating without
comfortable precedent was the
court of Nuremburg, but with all
its difficulties, the author says,
“that there had to be a trial can
not be doubted.” She does not ask
you to take such a statement on
faith but does her best to share
with you the experiences, the
thoughts that brought her to this
conviction. It i^ stated another
way when, in, connection with a
local trial, she speaks of “that
sense of law which is as necessary
to man as bread and water.”
Miss West brings to her report
ing a novelist’s skill at recreating
scenes and characters and the ca
dences of conversations, sq that
you seem to share the tedium of
HELP for Coughs
You feel cooling, soothing help from
the very first dose. Clogging phlegm
is loosened, yoii breathe deeper.
CREOMUI!SION
rallivts Coughi, Chest Colds, Acute Bronchitis
those months in Nuremburg, smeU
the hot summer fragrances of
Greenville, sit in a bare room
with those tired but courageous
working women of Berlin or more
pleasantly share the tea in “Gran’s
cottage on the Ismdward side of
the sea wall.” For in the end, it
is what the events do to the by
standers, the “people,” that seems
important to Miss West as attest
ed by the title of her chapters on
Germany, “Greenhouse with Cy
clamens,” a title due to her meet
ing one obscure man who seemed
to her typical of thousands of or
dinary Germans.
THE AUTUMN'S BRIGHTNESS
by Daisy Newmsui (Macmillan
$3.50). This is a book for those
that like a tender romance. The
hero and heroine of this love story
are no logger young, but it is none
the less moving for that, even if
the story may prove too sentimen
tal for some tastes. DiUy, whose
real name is Diligence, is a Quak
er whose life, vmtil she met Du
rand, had been more or less pre
scribed for her, first by her par
ents and then by her husband.
Then she went to visit an old
school friend in New York, where
her most thrilling adventure was
to ride on the “El” with a man to
whom she had never been prop
erly introduced.
This will give you some idea of
the type of book. Some especially
good parts include the description
of a Quaker meeting, which is
done with understanding, and a
lovable dog named “Henderson”
who is a mixture of many breeds,
a fact which may account for his
charm. This book was published
in England imder the title, “Dilly.”
' The author, who was born in Eng
land, is the wife of a Yale profes
sor.” ■ —JANE H. TOWNE.
BONES IN THE BARROW by
Josephine Bell (Maomillan $2.50).
This is the first of this author’s
books to be published in this
country and we hope there will be
more, for- it is an excellent exam
ple of what British writers are
doing in the field of mystery sto
ries. Josephine Bell is a pseudo
nym for Doris Bell, who is now
devoting her time to writing al
though she is a graduate of the
Royal College of Surgeons and
holds the London Medical Degree.
It is not surprising to find that
she is interested in “Bones,” and
what can happen to them. Her
detective, David Winteringham, is
a doctor whose work in detection
is a side line. He is a delightful
character. AU. of her characters
are well drawn, the plot well con
ceived, and the book so well writ
ten that it would be a pleasure to
read it even without a crime.
—JANE H. TOWNE
Young People Of
Local Church
Plan Attend Rally
On April 3 the First Presbyte
rian Church in Lumberton will be'
the site of the annual Spring
Rally of the young people of Fay
etteville Presbytpry. An informa
tive program is being planned.
Hazel McLean, president, will
preside over the business meet
ing. During the business meeting
officers for the coming year will
be elected.
Young people of Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian Church
here are planning to attend.
Among the synod-wide leaders
who plan to attend are Vernon
Hunter of Charlotte, moderator of
the Youth of the Synod and Tom
my Hall-of St. Pauls, ex-president
of the Presbytery.
Each church has been requested
to bring Christmas cards to the
rally. ’Iliese cards will be sent to
missionaries in the foreign field
for them to use in their work. A
prize will be given to the church
that brines the most cards.
After the meeting is adjourned,
a picnic supper will be served.
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BY DR. KENNETH I. FOREMAN
Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16; Luke
10:29-37; Homans 13; Ephesians 4:17-32;
I Peter 4:12-19.
Devotional Readlnf: Homans 12:9*21.
Bookmobile
Schedule
The Living Worid
Lesson for March 27, 1955
Virginia, N. C.
Pastors Exchange
Pulpits For Week
More than 200 visiting minis-
■ters from the Synod of Virginia
are filling as many Presbyterian
churches throughout the Synod of
North Carolina during this week,
as a part of the "'‘Forward With
Christ” evangelistic emphasis be
ing promoted throughout the
General Assembly. In April North
Carolina ministers will hold
meetings (in Virginia churches.
P2irticipating in the exchange are
the entire faculty and student-
body cf Union Theological Sem;-
inary, Richmond, 'Va., headed by
Dr. Ben R. Lacy, president, Ra
leigh native. Services began Sun
day morning and continue there
after each evening through to
night (Friday). Many* of the
churches will hold ybuth pro
grams on Saturday, March 19.
The North Carolina-Virginia
exchange is only one of several
being conducted throughout the
demonstration. South Carolina
and Georgia and West Virginia
and Appalachian Synods are like
wise in the midst of similar evan
gelistic programs.
The Synod of Virginia has a
total of 470 churches and North
Carolina, G35. The membership of
the two Synods is: Virginia. 105.-
000 and North Carolina, 129,276.
There are 400 Presbyterian min
isters in the Synod of Virginia
and 508 in the Synod of North
Carolina.
Last year 104 proved sire rec
ords were received from the dairy
husbandry research branch of
USDA. This is the most proved
sire records ever to be received
in North Carolina. ’They were pre
pared as a result of 305-day lacta
tion records reported by DHIA
supervisors.
Legal Notices
NORTH CAROLINA
MOORE COUNTY
The undersigned, having quali
fied as Executrix of the estate
of June A. Phillips, deceased, late
of Moore County, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
said estate to present them to the
undersigned on or before the 25th
day of February, 1956, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment to the
undersigned.
This the 25th day of February,
1955.
lONE H. PHILLIPS,
Executrix
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I T SHOULDN’T seem singular
that we are all born plural. We
can’t be^ born at all Without the
consent of two people we never
saw before, and we can’t be
legally born without the consent
of a great many more. We liv4
in a world of people, by the help of
many people. We cannot achieve
health, wealth or
happiness all by
ourselves. And
when we die the
reason why we
are not missed
very long is that
there are so many
other people ready
to take our place.
Now the Christian
like all other men Foreman
lives in a world of men. His re
ligion ought to give him some
clue, at least, as to how hk should
live in this human world, this
immense complex wheels-withln-
wheels thing we call Society. Is
the right Christian thing to do
to run away from the world and
hide? Hermits have tried it. Is it
the right Christian thing to do to
adopt the slogan, “If you can’t
lick ’em, jine ’em”? Shall Chris
tians just accept the world and
its ways? Worldly “Christians”
have tried that.
Salt and Light
But neither the Christian her
mit nor the “worldly Christian”
has helped the world. The world is
no better for either of them, and
on the other hand both hermit
and worldling have ended by be
ing no better than a caricature of
a true Christian. The Christian’s
relation to the world around him
. . . wait just a minute. We are
going too fast, aren't we? “The
world”—what do we mean by
that? For the purposes of these
present thoughts, the “world”
means all the realms and rami
fications of such variegated human
arrangements as sports, politics,
education, business, industry, ag
riculture, international affairs; all
human institutions and relation
ships on a large scale or small.
The “world” here means human
beings, not in separate capsules
but tied in innumerable ways to
one another, affecting one anoth
er, inseparable from birth to
death. The Christian’s relation to
this world is not like that of a pin
stuck into a pin-cushion. The world
is not merely the place where he
has to be. Jesus put it into those
' two little thumb-nail parables of
Salt and Light. The Christian is to
be different, to be separate; but
not as a pin is different from its
cushion. The pin does nothing
whatever for the cushion; but salt
and light do something, something
valuable and needed, to whatever
it is with which they make con
tact. Christians are expected to
apply themselves and their Chris
tianity to every relationship of
life—that’s a dull way to put it,
but doing it is never dull.
Love Is Concern
Jesus and Paul both made it
clear that the one law of life’ that
sunu up all other laws is Love.
Not romantic love, not sloppy slip
pery sentimentality, but genuine
heart-concern, intelligent concern,
for the welfare of others. We all
know that this is the law that
transforms family life from a kind
of jungle, or a cage at best, into
something very close to heaven.
We haven’t all discovered that
this is the law that can transform
public life, yes, politics, business,
all the rest of it. It’s harder to do
out there because the larger the
citcles the less co-operation you
are going to find. Nevertheless, it
is a fact that civilizations, nations,
businesses, that have learned
something from the Christian Gos
pel. are better ioi: the people that
live there and work there than
where Christianity has never had
a chance. Yet ours is still a pagan
civilization. 'When a manufacturer
writes that the principle of his
business has always been to make
money for the stockholders, he has
not got hold of the Christian idea.
When an industrialist says that
his business is making citizens and
he is using a cotton min for that
purpose, he has got hold of the
Christian idea.
To the End of Time
But suppose the H-bomb gets us
all? Suppose, for lack of enough
strength Christians, the hate-aU,
grab-all way of the world has
orought us to the edge of doom,
,vhat can Christians do? Sit down
and wait for the end? The Apostle
Peter did not think so. Neither
did any other early Christian
leader. They felt themselves in a
world on fire—and indeed so it
was.
(Based on outlines eopyrirhted hj the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
Schedule of the Moore County
bookmobile for the week March
28-April 1 has been announced as
follows:
Monday—Through Niagara tc
Union church with stops at Kelly,
DarneU and Briggs homes, 2 to
3; paved ro'ad to "Vass with home
stops, 3:15 to 4:15; W. F. Smith
home, 4:20; Kenneth Henning’s,
4:30.; Dunrovin cafe, 4:45.
Tuesday—^Eagle Springs P. O.,
2:30 p. m.; across by Big Oak
church to Hy. 27; Kermit Morgan
home, 3 p. m.; Yarborough’s store
3:20; Friends church stop, 4; K. C.
Maness’s, 4:15. '
'Wednesday—Jackson Springs:
W. E. Graham home, 2:30; Post of
fice, 2:45; West End: Chessom
home, 3:15; Postoffice, 3:30 to
4:30; Branson home at power sta
tion, 4:40.
Thursday—Carthage Library.
11:30 to 12:30; Carthage neat
courthouse, 1 to 1:30; Joe Press-
ley home near CJoles Mill, 2;
Floyd Willcox’s, 2:20; Glendon,
3; Nicholson home, 3:30.
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Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday
BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyleiian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Minister
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Wor
ship service, 11 a.m. Women of
the Church meeting, 8 p.m.i Mon
day following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
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.
ReadingRoom in Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP (Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons. Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 aan.
■Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Pilgrim Fel-
• lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3rd
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 a.m.
Women of the Churth meeting,
8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service 'Thursday at
8 p.m.
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 p.m.
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 feimily suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p.m.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Charles V. CovelL Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (except
first Sunday).
Church School and Family Ser
vice, 9:45 a.m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a.m. (Holy
Communion, first Simday).
Wednesday, 10 a.m. Holy Com
munion.
ST. ANTHONY'S (CalhoUc)
Vermont Ave. ait Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 1():30 a.m.;
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 p.m.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Robert L. Bame, Minister
(Service^ held temporarily at
Civic Club, Ashe StreeQ
Church School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
day at 8 p. m.
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