THURSDAY. MAY 31, 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
Page THREE
YOUTH. The Years From Ten to
Sixteen by Arnold Gesell M. D,
Frances L. Zlg M. D., Louise
Ames Ph. D., (Harper $5.95).
This is a refreshing book. The au
thors dare to write a 523 page
volume without even a chapter
on “delinquency,” and are care
ful to state that this year’s slang
expression, “teenagers,” has no
evil connotations I
In other words they are writing
about the ninety-seven per cent
of boys and girls who are grow
ing up with natural and inevi
table differences with their pa
rents, among themselves and
their environment. Abnormal dif
ficulties will have to be looked
up elsewhere. The young people
described here are getting ac
quainted with their world, and
the authors recount in readable,
sometimes witty, language what
turns up in the way of behavior.
No charts or figures purporting
to establish averages offer spe
cious shortcuts.
The boys and girls are from,
middle and upper economic
level families, and many of them
have been known to the staff
during their earlier years when
they were- observed at the Gesell
Institute. Much of the descriptive
text is in the words of, or told by.
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the children themselves. Parents
were especially helpful. This re
search and the writing took al
most six years, which means that
it is original work.
Inasmuch as one must trust
someone to winnow facts in any
research about personality, this
reviewer prefers written des
criptions qif characteristics be
cause knowledgeable writers can,
as these do, indicate the varieties
of individual range and habits as
mathematical charts cannot. As
one reads the feeling grows that
these people know the individu
als they are describing. As they
remark, “By the time of adol
escence the differences that be
comes apparent stagger descrip
tion.”
Each of the years has a chap
ter, that for age ten covers
twenty-eight two column pages;
for eleven there are thirty-four
and so on. It is a true reference
book for the education of parents
who want to keep up with their
children.
In the following series of chap
ters the descriptive material is
rearranged under chapter head
ings which were the division
headings in the descriptive pages.
One might quote:
“We use the terms growth and
development interchangeably.
The terms apply equally to men
tal and physical attributes. The
individual develops as a unit.” |
“Growth is a patterning pro
cess; it takes time.”
In strongest italics: “The ma
turity profiles, the maturity traits
and the maturity trends are not
to be regarded as rigid age norms
nor as models. . . Every child has
an individual pattern of growth
unique to him. . . The ‘ages’ de
note approximate zones rather
than precise moments of time.”
On age ten: ‘‘Ten is fond of his
home and loyal to it. . . He gets
along least well with siblings in
the six-to-nine raqge. . . . Ten-
year-old boys candidly but ve
hemently express disinterest in
or active disrelish for girls. One
misogynist laconically said, ‘I do
not like girls. Period.’ Another,
speaking more mildly for his ten-
year-old confreres, summed up
with ‘We sort of hate girls.’ . .
Girls of comparable age with
slightly different accent say, ‘Oh,
we don’t like boys, they can be
plenty mean.’ or ‘We are not in
terested in boys yet.’ ”
Perhaps the above are samples
of the flavor.
Note might be made that Dr.
Gesell began his professional ca
reer as a school teacher—^he was
the reviewer’s high school princi
pal. Other eminent child psychia
trists have made a similar
change.
One critic faulted Dr. Gesell
because he did not spell out
“why” these were normal chil-
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“quickie” in the writing and is
recommended for parents and
educators who really want infor
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—CLINTON W. ARESON
NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTI
ANITY by Ji B. Phillips (Macmil
lan $2.2$). A translator has a un
ique “in” as far as religious study
is concerned, because the
focal point of the faith is the
scriptures, which in the case of
Christianity is the New Testa
ment in Greek. When the trans
lator is of the stature of J. B.
Phillips he is especially qualified'
because of his facile use pf the
right word, the vivid phrase and
the memorable metaphor. , This
unique combination of under
standing and expression has
made Mr. Phillips one of our
foremost “apologists” and ought
to commend -f his latest book,
“New Testament Christianity,” to
an increased circle of readers.
Indeed one hopes that “un-
chiu-ched people” could somehow
be induced to start it and discov
er what most of them and, alas,
many of the churched, do not ap
parently know—‘‘the sheer spir
itual zest and drive of the New
Testament” and the almost un
believable wonder of the super
human truth “that pulses and vi
brates behind the steady prose”
of that document.
Mr. Pihllips’ little book, which
can be read almost at a sitting
presents the basic conviction of
Christianity — New Testament
and all genuine Christianity—as
the certainty that our earth is the
Visited Planet. In that invasion
experience there are born the
■Christian qualities of Faith, Hppe,
Love and Peace, which Mr. Phil
lips defines against the back
ground of the New Testament
and which he is concerned to
stimulate in the readers of his
book. His effort is a most useful
little treatise on Christian Main
tenance (the title of one of the
chapters), a nerve tonic for ac
tive members of the Christian
fellowship, but also it could be an
instrument for stabbing awake
many who, in the author’s own
words, “sabotage the power and
witness of the Christian fellow
ship by their haphazard attach
ment to the church.”
Mr. Phillips’ book presents the
Good News which created Chris
tianity. Some may not find that
exhilarating, but in the words of
another distinguished British
apologist. Miss Dorothy L. Say
ers, “if this is dull, then what, in
Heaven’s name, is worthy to be
called exciting?”
InterTMtionai Uniform
Sunday School Lessons
BY DR. KENNETH
Background Scripture: Act^ 15:36
18:22.
Devotional Beading: Acts 17<22-31.
To the West
Lesson for June 3, 1956
TN PAUL’S vision at Troas, his
night visitor did not say, “Come
over into Europe and help us.” He
only said “Macedonia.” In fact,
the word Europe does not occur in
the story at all. Paul and his con
temporaries were not conscious of
nioving from one continent to an
other when they
set sail for Mace
donia. Neverthe
less it was a no
table move. The
Christian church
was moving west,
and it has never
stopped perma-
ne ntly a t a ny
frontier. The little
party that took Dr. Foreman
ship for Samothracia was only one
of countless groups of Christians
westward bound. This was the first
step in a great march. The Gospel
was carried into every country in
Europe, then into the Americas.
Here in North America, as the
settlers moved inland, westward
and ever westward, as the frontier
moved across the land the church
moved with it. Sometimes the
church itself did the pioneering, as
the Roman church did in Califor
nia or the Protestants in Oregon.
Moving and Changing
Pea vines and people often
change when transplanted to a dif
ferent soil and climate. So it is
with the church. The church at
Antioch was different from the
church in Jerusalem, and the
church at Corinth was still differ
ent and by the time the church
reached Rome and settled there,
more changes could ‘be seen.
Churches in Northern Britain were
not just like those of southern Italy.
When the church came to Amer
ica, there were further changes'
To this day, a Presbyterian church
in this country will be in many
ways imlike the church of the
same name in Scotland. English
Methodists and American Metho
dists can easily be told apart. A
distinguished English Baptist who
is now serving in the largest
American Baptist denomination
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at first for him to feel at home
here. Even in the Roman Catholic
church priests who have been in
America aU their lives find some
features of European Catholic
churches rather strange, and vice
versa. In America, too, as the
church moved west it changed its
ways.
Always the Same
“The more it changes, the more
it stays the same,” is a French
proverb, which might well de
scribe the church of God. It is
quite true, the church has gone
through many changes as it has
moved westward with the years,
but at heart, when it has had a
heart, it has always been the
same. (We say “When it has had
a heart,” because some churches
have lost heart, or lost their heart,
grown cold and died.) It would be
quite a shock for a member of any
American church east or west to
walk into a meeting of the church
at Corinth in St. Paul’s time. It
would be just as puzzling for a
Corinthian to enter any American
church—a great cathedral in New
York or a country church forty
mUes from anywhere;'neither one
would be like his Corinthian meet
ing. But the heart of the church
is the same. In Corinth, Kansas
City or the Kentucky hills, wher
ever people are gathered together
who love the Lord Jesus, who
adore Him as Son of God and
know Him as their Saviour, wher
ever those who love Christ are
united to serve mankind in His
name, there is the (Christian
church at worship and at work.
Languages and forms differ, but
the spirit of Christ is always the
same.
Frontiers of the Future
When the church reached the
eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean,
had it come to the last frontier?
Is there anywhere else to go? Of
course there is. Beyond the Pacific
are two vast continents. The Chris
tian church has been so busy
stretching westward that it has aU
but forgotten the “East”—which .
now is literally our Far West.
Asia, Africa and the islands of the
seas are our Christian frontiers,
the frontiers of the future, and the
church is (if yet . only dimly)
aware of them. The churches
along these frontiers wiU be dif
ferent from the churches “back
home” as ours are different from
Corinth and Jerusalem. But the
Spirit will be there; for wherever
there are true churches, there
Christ lives and works again.
(Based en ontUaes eopyrlfhted hj the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Connell of the Chnrches of Christ
in the V. 8. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
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are graduating this year! Receiving a di
ploma means you have fulfilled the aca
demic requirements and met the standards
of conduct of your schools. They, in turn,
have given you a secure world for four years,
with work and rules of conduct mapped out
for you.
Now all this is changed in a day. The am
chor has suddenly pulled up, and the world
ahead looks insecure and uncertain. You
now have to plan your own work, and set
your own standards of behavior.
At this point, a church connection is a
strong anchor to spiritual security. Let your
Commencement mean a commencement of
regular church attendance in the church you
choose. Face the new world ahead armed
with its firm hope and faith.
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character and good citizenship It
IS a storehouse of spiritual values.
Without a strong Church, neither
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The Youth Fellowships meet at
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Mid-week service, Wednesday,
7:15 p.m.
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New Hampshire Ave.
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
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EMMANUEL CHURCH
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Marlin Caldwell, Rector
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Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
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New York Ave. at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Wordiip
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p.ni.; mid-week worship, Wednes-
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Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and
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Grover C. Currie. Minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3rd
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Women of the Church meeting,
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Mid-week service Thursday at
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