THURSDAY. JANUARY 12. 1956
THE PILOT—^^ulhern Pines. North Carolina
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By ^OCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
HUE AND CRY, the Story of
Henry and John Fielding and
their Bow Street Runners by
Patrick Pringle (Macmillan
$4.00). As the detective story has
developed allied forms in the
“suspense novel” and the more
psychological type of 'mystery
fiction, there has also been a new
interest in factual books about
crime, and this is one of the most
absorbing that I have met. In the
elegant eighteenth century of Ad
dison and Steele, London was—
according to Patrick Pringle—^the
most lawless city in Europe.
Why? Because the Englishman
so cherished his freedom that he
spoke the word “police” with the
same abhorrence as we say “Ges
tapo,” and he was proud of the
fact that England had no paid,
professional police. It still relied
on the old parish constable sys
tem. As a result Horace Walpole
could write in 1750 that going to
a friend’s house for dinner was
as dangerous as going to the re
lief of Gibraltar “owing to 'the
profusion of housebreakers, high
waymen and footpads, and es
pecially because of the savage
barbarity of the two latter who
commit the most wanton cruel
ties.”
Yet seven years later “The
Gentleman’s Magazine” said that
“the reigning evil of street-rob
bing hath been almost wholly
suppressed.” And how had this
come about? A needy dramatist
whose theater had been closed
because his satirical plays were
unacceptable to the government,
an unsuccessful novelist, one
Henry Fielding, was in such
straits that he accepted an ap
pointment as magistrate in order
to keep his family decently.
Now the magistrates of that era
were known as “trading justices”
because they derived their in
comes from fees and fines at the
best, bribes at thi worst. Some
prospered mightily but not the
author of “Tom Jones.” He had
meant what he said about social
corruption in his plays and novels
and he set out to reduce crime.
Being a realist as well as a re-j
former, he did it. In fact, he laid
the foundations of the British Po
lice, though its first members, his
Bow Street runners, had to oper
ate secretly for several years un
till their record showed such in
contestable benefits to the gener
al welfare that they could be
publicly avowed and publicly
supported.
Henry Fielding whose health
was already poor when he took
on himself this Herculean task of
cleaning up crime in London did
not hve to see that day. He died
in 1754, but his half brother,
John, “the blind beak,” carried
on and did a fine job of it. Mr.
Pringle has told their story well
with a rich background of the
period and many dramatic col
orful incidents.
THE OPEN HEART by Ed-
ward Weeks (Little, BMwn
$3.50). Edward Weeks is a well
known name to all readers of the
Atlantic Monthly of which he is
editor. Formerly he was book ed
itor, and his reviews have been
enjoyed by many. This book is a
collection of articles and essays,
all interesting and all delight
fully written. Many are on lit
erary subjects. Among the writ
ers th^ he admires are Mark
Twain, Tomlinson, Kipling and
especially E. B. White. The last is
not surprising, for he and Mr.
White have much in common.
Both have great understanding
and a sensitive style of writing,,
both give us worthwhile reading
in a light and charming vein. Par
ticularly revealing are the vig
nettes of his boyhood and travels
abroad. ’The essays on fishing
show a deep appreciation of Na
ture. —JANE H. TOWNE
A GOOD man is hard TO
FIND by Flannery O'Connor
(Harcourt $3.50|). This book Of
short stories by a young woman
from Georgia is running well up
as a contender for the 1955 Na
tional Book Award in fiction.
This is net the same as being a
best seller—Miss O’Connor’s brew
is too bitter for that. The award
is made by polling critics, libra
rians and booksellers; it means
that a good share of these people
feel that we have here a writer
of originality, power, distinction.
The stories vary in mood—
grim, humorous, ironic; but a
sort of sardonic realism runs
through them all. Her characters
come out clear through details of
dress, expression, conversation—
“her face was as broad and inno
cent as a cabbage and was tied
round with a green head-kerchief
that had two points on the top
like rabbit’s ears.” Moreover her
situations develop with exquisite
logic from- the characters.
The background is Georgia or
nearby areas, and the flavor is au
thentic not only in colloquial
speech and descriptions of the
scenery but in the preoccupation
of the people—ethical, social and
theological. It is a book that
deals primarily with standards of
value and nowhere more poign
antly than in the title story in
that remarkable conversation be
tween the grandmother and the
“Misfit.”
HERITAGE, a Novel by An
thony West (Random $3.75). We
are interested at once in this story
of an illegitimate child and feel
great sympathy for Richard who
had his mother’s n^e. Savage,
and who, until he went to board
ing school, did not know who his
father was.
Both parents are famous, one
a clever actress, and the other an
illustrious actor. The early part
of the book, Richard’s childhood,
is largely autobiographical with
an attempt to keep names of ac-
tpal people out of it and to dis
guise the protagonists. Both pa
rents are fascinating characters
but so temperatmental that the
poor, little child is all but forgot
ten at times emd then passed
about as if he were a plaything.
It is hard to understand how he
survived at all without being
completely frustrated. The scene
is London and the French Rivi
era, and the time that between
the two world wars. When the
book ends, Richard is about to en
list.
This can be recommended as
an interesting and rather unusual
novel, unusual because of its
frankness. The characters some
times seem fantastic, but the au
thor has the ability to make them
live; —JANE H. TOWNE
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BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Background Scripture: Luke 13:1-35.
Beadin
Devotional
ling: Homans 2:1-16.
How to Repent
Lesson for January 15, 1956
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/~\NCE upon a time, so the story
goes, there was a young man
who had just come to a church as
their preacher. He was barely out
of the seminary, and his note
books and his head were well
filled. He started out one Sunday
morning with a sermon on Re
pentance. He analyzed the mean
ing of the word, he traced it
through Scripture,
it theologically
and psychological
ly,—in short, he
laid down the Doc
trine of Repent
ance, as he had
been taught it.
When he sat down,
an old minister in
the congregation
got to his feet and
up to the pulpit
as fast as he could make it.
“Young man,” he said, “you quit
just before you got to the point.
You told these people what re
pentance is: now stand up there
and tell ’em to repent!”
Substitutes for Repentanee
So, nothing in this column
should be taken to mean that
knowing what repentance is, can
be a substitute for repenting.
Knowing what fishing is is not
fishing; knowing what a doctor
does will not make one a doctor.
So knowing what repentance is,
is not repenting. And still it helps.
You can’t fish if you’ve no idea
what “fishing” means. You can’t
be a doctor if you don’t know what
doctors do. Some people never
reaUy repent, only because they
have got into the habit of doing
something else they call repent
ing, but is not reaUy that at aU.
Repentance is not just being sorry
for something you have done. You
may be sorry for the wrong rea
son,—because you have been
found out, or because your sin
has caused you trouble, or be
cause your pride in yourself has
been dented. Repentance is being
sorry but it is more than that.
Repentance in the Bible sense of
the word also is more than re
gretting particular sins. I may be
truly sorry I was harsh to a
loved one; but next day I may be
just as harsh and unkind. The
harshness and unkindness are
symptoms, they are not the dis
ease; I need to repent of what it
is in me that causes me to mis
treat others.
Repentance Ic Changing the Mind
Don’t let any one tell you that
Christians do not need to repent.
Only those who argue that Christ’s
commands are not for us can sup
pose that repentance is not our
own duty. As for Paul, he made it
about as plain as words can make
it: God calls on all men every
where to repent (Acts 17:30). Be
ware of “Bible students” who
try to evade the plain teaching
of Jesus. He certainly taught re
pentance as well as faith. Now
the Greek word used to translate
Jesus’ word (which no doubt was
in Aramaic, the language of Pal
estine in those days) is “me-
tanoeo” which UteraUy means to
change the mind. This i» much
deeper than changing your mind
about what to take at a cafeteria
or when to do the washing. It
means, as Jesus’ whole teaching
shows, that total change of out
look,—loving what one hated, hat
ing what one loved, — which
changes the whole person from
within. What is the center of your
life? Is it yourself? Then no mat
ter how many. sins you may re
gret having committed, you have
not repented in Jesus’ sense of
the word. Your life must be shift
ed over from love of yourself to
love of God and your neighbor.
Repentance is the outworking of
the new birth. A person who pro
fesses to have been born again
but who still looks at life from a
self-centered standpoint, has prob
ably not been born again. Re
pentance, in this deep and real
sense of a radical change in at
titude, aims and desires, is not
something you can do in a fiash
and be done with forever. In 2
Peter 3:9 (a little book written to
Christians) it is said the Lord
wishes all to “reach repentance.”
It is actually a continuing life
long process.
How It Works
But this profound inner change
of the mind (which in the Bible is
inseparable from the heart) will
work out in repentance for par
ticular sins. Some people, per-
'laps most people, find it easier
to repent of “sin” tor what they
all repenting) than of particular
sins. But true repentance is both
profound and particular. In false
repentance, a person is “sorry”
for a sin but goes on doing it.
(Based on outlines copyrisrhied by 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, Janu
ary 16-20 has been announced as
follows:
Monday—^Niagara at Webster
Library, 3:30 to 4; Lakeview, 4:10
to 4:30.
Tuesday — Cameron school,
10:30 a. m.; West Southern Pines
school, 1:30 p. m.; Lloyd Chris-
coe’s, 2:15; Sandy Black home,
2:30; Garrison’s store, ,2:45; Eulis
Vest’s, 3:15; Tracy Seawell home,
3:30; Eureka route, 3:30 to 4:45.,
Wednesday — Vineland school,'
1:30; Jackson Springs: W. E. Gra
ham’s, 2:15; postoffice, 2:30; West
End: L. H. Chessom home, 3:10 to
3:25; near post office, 3:30 to 4:30; |
Branson’s at power station, 4:40 j
Thursday — Carthage Library, I
11:30; Westmoore school, 1 to|
2:30; Lonnie Brewer’s, 2:45; Ro-j
land Nall’s, 3; Baldwin’s store,,
3:15; Davis home on Jugtownj
read, 3:30.
Friday — Murdocksville route!
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They make pretty patterns on the snow,
these fences. But they were not built “for
looks.” They were erected for protection.
They stand as bulwarks against the physical THE CHURCH FOR AIT
.elements. ymmai All pnn Ttn. * ' '
AU FOR THE CHURCH
There are other kinds of bulwarks most of to7'’on^ea/i? fo 'I'l,®
us need in,our daily lives—spiritual bulwarks. character and good citizerlsMp °!
For even the strongest of us cannot stand
alone. Sometimes we think we can . . . but the democracy nor
moment comes when we realize how much we survive. There are four sound
need help. ■ P^'^on should
por??he" Chu' r® *“P-
It is then that we turn toward the Church. "^^3 h.s own“'sake,^(2) Tor h'^
And, no matter how remiss we may have been, Pof 'he sake
the Church stands there with doors open wide. For , T,'
ready to receive us. reeds his moral and ml'
terial support Plarf* to ^
But should we wait until we really need BiXda’it^'^''’^ "®°<i''your
a spiritual bulwark? How much better to
establish ourselves in the Church now and sund Verses
\>e assured of its strength and comfort
through all our days. wTdne.T’''' n^6
J’ y. Deuteronomy 5 J.,,
Satur^ay-.'.Vji^-bTwT'"” \l
BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyleiian)
Cheves K. Ligon. Miitister
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 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Ave.
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room 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 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 ajn.
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 Church 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, htinister
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 p.m.
Missionary meeting, fir^ and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Supply Pastor
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (except
first Simd^).
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Morning Service, 11 a.m.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and lft:30 aju.,
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 pjn.
SOUTHERN PINES
ME-raODIST CHURCH
Robert L. Bame. htinister
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, Ashe Street)
Church Schcol, 9:45 a.m.
. . _ Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
and family suppers, second Thurs- W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
days, 7 p.m. day at 8 p. m.
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