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■ THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1956 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Page THREE Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER A HISTORY OF MOORE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, 1747-1847 by Blackwell P. Robin son (Moore County Historical As sociation $5.00i). The Historical Association can be justly proud of the results of this project which it has been nurturing for several years. The book is a permanent contribution to the history of the state, and it looks permanent— sturdily bound, well printed, with a good index, bibliography and a folding map of Moore County, showing the landmarks of the century covered. Alto gether it is an impressive work and what is more important to the layman it is readable. , Descendant of old settlers will probably get the most satisfac tion out of the book as many of them will find records of their forebears—we hope creditable; but Mr. Robinson has avoided holding up his story too long with lists of names, by putting a the Revolution, several families of higher rank and some proper ty settled in Moore County, in cluding Allan and Fldta Macdon ald. When the Revolution broke out, they were active on the Tory side and influenced many of their poorer neighbors to join them. The result was “perhaps ,the most sustained internecine .warfare in the entire'Revolution” with the opportunity such a sit- 'uation always gives the more lawless element to pillage, des troy and murder. Local conflicts continued to fester long after na tional peace was restored. Sections on schools and churches, artisans and agricul ture give us another side of the social history of that century and the determination of the leaders to bring the benefits of civiliza tion to these pioneer communi ties. Altogether it is a book that residents of Moore County will not only want to read but will good part of this material in the i turn to again and again for ref- appendices. As a newcomer to erence to special events, places the county, I found the book re warding because it gave me the complete story of several inci dents of which I Iknew only bits from casual references. It also corrected views that I had built up from putting these bits to gether after my own fashion. Take Philip Alston. I knew that he was a patriot in the Rev olution and had defended the House in the Horseshoe against attacking Tories, and his name had a suave and elegant sound; so I pictured a proper gentleman to go with the name. What a sur prise to find that he was a violent God-defying man and came to a bad end! Some of the best stories in the book have to do with this House in the Horseshoe now be ing restored as an historical monument. Naturally there is a special chapter on the emigration of the Highland Scots. According , to data gathered by Dr. Robinson, most of them came because of desperately bad economic condi tions in the Highlands and were near destitute when they ar rived. However, shortly before and people. THAT EGYPTIAN WOMAN, a Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra by Noel B. Gerson (Doubleday $3.95). Here is a fresh and un commonly interesting interpre tation of a familiar passage of history. Toynbee says in his latest book that as mankind floats down the stream of his tory, the view of the past changes as we reach new view points and so each generation must rewrite history for itself. This book, though fiction, is an excellent example In no age but our own would Ceasar have been pictured so definitely as a great executive absorbed in his business, which was running the Roman Empire. He might have stepped out of the “executive suite” of a city sky scraper. And the lesser men about him are busy strengthen ing their positions for the day of the big chance, for Ceasar is age ing and his successor unknown. Cleopatra is a woman of the world, greedy of power and mak ing the most of her assets. Dress and makeup are tailored to each occasion and described in detail. Clever and daring, she is less passionate than Shakespeare’s Cleopatra and more intelligent than Shaw’s—altogether a woman whom the nobles of Rome did well not to underestimate. In taking this view of Cleopat ra, Mr. Gerson is in harmony with the conclusions of such modern historians as Professor Tam who have found reason to believe that her influence and power were greater than the of ficial Roman historians ever ad mitted, that Rome really feared her and that it was her presence there that brought to a head the plots against Caesar and was the immediate cause of his assassin ation. This theory offers a novelist a grand opportunity, and Mr. Gerson has done quite well with it, though his characters are in tellectually interesting rather than moving to our emotions. THE TRUMPET OF GOD by David Duncan (Doubleday $4.50). This novel is based on one of the strangest events of the Middle Ages, the Children’s Crusade. We see it through the eyes of Ulric, a German peasant boy, who was a leader of one of the bands of children that crossed Europe and was turned back—what was left of them—by the Pope. It is a tragic story told with sympathy for the suffering of those in volved but also with deep feeling for the religious exhilaration ex perienced. We get, too, a view of how it looked to the more world ly souls of the day. Probably nothing could make this episode seem other than fantastic to the modern mind but Mr. Duncan has given us enough background to make it seem logical in its set ting. SP Bookmobile Schedule BY DR.’KENNETH J. FOREMAN. Background Scripture: Matthew 18: 20; John 21:1-14; Revelation 1—3. Devotional Beading: Revelation 3:7- 13. DRIVE CAREFULLY — SAVE A LIFE! Revelation Lesson for September 16, 1956 T he book of Revelation was sev eral hundred years old before the whole Christian church ac cepted it into the Bible. Even after it became an official part of the New Testament, there were Chris tian scholars who questioned it. Saint James places it somewhere between the “ca nonical” and “ap ocryphal” books —that is, between- Bible and not-Bi- ble. Luther’s first preface to his German transla tion of the New Testament said of Revelation that it Tuesday—^Dan Lewis, 9:30; Michael’s Store, 9:45; Paul Green, 10:15; Ben Blue, 10:30; Farm Life School, 10:45; Miss Velma Prim, 12:00; John Blue, i 12:15; C. F. Wicker, 12:30; H. A. Blue, 12:45; Love’s Store, 1:45; Miss Flora Blue, 2; E. Bt Cook, 2:30. Thursday—W. G. Inman, 9:45; Highfalls School, 10:15-11:15; Highfalls, ll:t20-12; Putnam, 12:30; Glendon, 1:30; L. W. Edwards, 2; R. F. Wilcox, 2:30; Miss Irene Nicholson, 3; Carthage, 3:30. Friday—W. E. Graham, 10; Jackson Springs Post Office, 10:30; J. C. Blue, 11:30; Mrs. James Hicks, 11:45; Mrs. Carl Tucker, 12; Philip Boroughs, 12:30; Mrs. J. W. 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In 1810 the handicraft system enabled North Carolina to pro- luce products of greater value than those manufactured by aMssachusetts. Eastman Dillon. Union Securities & Co. Members New York Stock Exchange ■ 105 East Pennsylvania Avenue Southern Pines, N. C. Telephone: Southern Pines 2-3731 and 2-3781 Complete Investment and Brokerage Facilities Direct Wire to our Main Office in New York A. E.klHINEHART Resident Manager Consultations by appointment on Saturdays A profitable place to « .. SAVE EASE ITCHY SKINI IN JUST 15 MINUTES, If not pleased, your 40c back at any drug store. Use instant-drying ITCH-ME-NOT day or night to re lieve the itch of eczema, ring worm, insect bites, foot itch and other externally caused itches. Guaranteed locally by Sandhill Drug Co. ad All Accounts Insured —UpTo— $10,000 Current Rate 31/2% —Per— Annum NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA MOORE COUNTY The undersigned, having quali fied as Executrix of the estate of Dorsey G. Stutz, deceased, late of Moore County, North Caro lina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersign ed on or before the 6th day of September 1957, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate payment to the under signed. This 6th day of September, 1956. GRACE M. STUTZ Executrix of the estate of Dorsey G. Stutz, deceased. s6,13,20,27 o4,llc ACCOUNTS OPENED ON OR BEFORE THE lOlh EARN INTEREST FROM THE 1st Accounts Conveniently Handled by Mail. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION 223 Wicker Street SANFORD, N. C. W. M. Womble. Sec. & Treas. Established in 1950. Assets Over $3,500,000.00 Get Better Sleep ON A BETTER MATTRESS Let us make your old mattress over like new! Any size, any type made to order. 1 DAY SERVICE MRS. D. C. THOMAS Southern Pines Lee Bedding and Manufacturing Co. LAUREL HILL, N. C. Makers of “LAUREL QUEEN” BEDDING be either apostolic or prophetic. He came to think better of it, but he never did print Revelation except as an appendix to the New Testa ment. Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, considered Revelation “not Bibli cal”; and John Calvin, who wrote commentaries on almost every other book of the Bible, never un dertook to write on Revelation. A Strange Book One of the reasons why so many distinguished Christians have had difficulty with the book of Revela tion is the simple one: it is ex tremely hard to understand. Its pages swarm with weird monsters; fire and blood fiow through its scenes; it is loud with the agonies of a crashing universe. Literally hundreds of persons, fascinated by the puzzles here, have written out their answers in books and com mentaries; but the very fact that these commentators do not agree among themselves is eloquent tes timony to the fact that no one yet has found the key that gives an answer the whole church accepts. What makes the book so strange is that it is written in the language of symbols. As one eminent conserva tive scholar, Dr. Warfield, said (with some exaggeration), every thing in the book means something else. The author as it were puts us on notice when he tells us himself that his “stars” mean angels, and “lampstands”'mean churches, and “incense” means prayers. Even the numbers in this book are sym bolic—that is, not to count with but to express ideas. Readers who wish to pursue the study of Revelation more fully should write to their denominational headquarters and inquire whether their church has authorized some particular inter pretation of this book. So wide are the disagreements that this writer could not recommend any one book without raising objections from some part of the church or other. Some Things Are Clear Sunday school lesson planners seldom select from Revelation; but those who planned our current se ries, used in more than 80 denomi nations, wisely selected three stud ies based on parts of Revelation about which there can be little dis pute. For some things in this ob scure book are clear as day; and it is probably in gratitude for these things, rather than in hope of un raveling aU the knots, that the church, in spite of its uncertain ties, has kept this book at the end of the Bible all these centuries. One of the clearer and best-loved sections is in the first three chap ters, where we have seven letters to seven churches of Asia Minor. There is obscurity here too; but also much light. Those seven churches have gone the way of all flesh, long since. But in those sharply etched pen-pictures the modern reader can see portraits, amazingly modern, which come close to describing churches we aU have seen. Christ in His Churches The warnings and the promises to those far-oft and long-gone churches are good today for us. One thing stances out in every one of these short piercing messages to the “seven churches”: Every true church—then, now always— is a true one only when and so long as it keeps faithful to Christ, so long as he can be satisfied with it. What are the points of a church Christ approves? The reader of Revelation can make his own list and should not skip the first two in the very first letter; “hard work and patient endurance” (to follow Moffatt’s translation). It should be noted too that even in the church most praised (Ephesus) the thing that comes in for blame is their let-down of love. For of all things that make a church weak and un- Christian, loss of love is the most serious. Even Christ’s severest judgments are judgments of love. To the weakest and worst chftrch of the seven, the word is, “As many as I love, I rebuke.” (Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division oi Christian Education, Na tional Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Comm^nity Press Service.) PILOT ADVERTISING PAYS Bennett & Penna. Ave. Telephone 2-3211 Have your Winter Clothes Cleaned and Stored for the Summer at The Valet MRS. D. C. JENSEN Where Cleaning and Prices Are Better! Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday WHATS COOKING-?l j.SWf-wg).)OOWAJOOtx««w.w.e,wwoni»«i It’s fun to mix a lot of ttings and wonder I how they’ll “turn out.” It’s -un until you try to eat your own “exter-specid” muffins. Then you wish you had used Monmy’s old-fash ioned recipe. Thousands of parents are shjring today the disillusionment that is in stori for our little cook—but on a more bitter sca,L. As juvenile offenders are herded into our pTice stations, courts and reformatories, heartbroken par ents watch and wonder. What iid they do wrong? Why didn’t Johnny tun out to be a boy they could be proud of? When you try to answer thos» questions you can’t help but recall the ol&fashioned recipe for raising children. It calls‘or gener ous portions of prayer, family wbrship. Church attendance. But more than ight mil lion children are growing up todaywithout ANY religious training. When the church bells ring on lunday j morning, remember; the future of our lation, /. the character of our children, is at stae, , THE CHURCH FOR ALi AU FOR THE CHURCH fac tor on earth lor the buildino o' is t'tizcnehip. ij Storehouse of spiritual values W.thout a strong Church, nehhe, children's°rake“°P, Jor th°'’ leriai support Plnn Hosca Monday.. . . Isaiah Isaiah ' Wednesd’y Matthew ihursday. . . Matthew Luke Saturday... Habakkuk Chapter Verses 1-16 1-17 18-31 24-33 36-52 20-30 1-19 Copyright 1956, Keister Adv. Service. Strubur^, Va. BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (Presbyteiian) Cheves K. Ligon, Minister 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 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 w4dE FELLOWSHIP (Congregational) Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire Wofford C. Timmons, Minister Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel lowship (Young people). Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum. EMMANUEL tHURCH (Episcopt) East Massachusets Ave. Martin Caldwell,Rector Holy Communion, 8a.m. (First Sundays and Holy D^s, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.) Family Service, 9:30 a^i. Church School, 10 a.m. Morning Service, 11 a.n. Young Peoples’ Service ,eague, 6:30 p.m. Holy Communion, Wednsdays and Holy Days, 10 a.m. an\ Fri day, 9 a.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHUHC* New York Ave. at South Asia David Hoke Coon. Minister Bible School, 9:45 a.m. WorsUp 11 a.m. Traming Union, 7 p.n. Evening Worship, 8 p.m. Scout Troop 224, Monday. 7:3» p.m.: mid-week worship, Wednes-, day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice! Wednesday 8:15 p.m. Missionary meeting, first and third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers, second Thurs days, 7 p.m. MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Grover C. Currie, Minister Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service, 2nd and 3rc Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourtt Sunday morning, 11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting, 8 p.wi., second Tuesday. Mia-tveek service Thursday at 8 p.m. ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic) Vermont Av, gj Ash* Father Peter K Denges Sunday masses 8 anaio-gg aja Holy Day masses 7 ana » weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confev- sions heard on Saturday betwe© 5-6 and 7:30-8:30 pm. SOUTHERN PINES METHODIST CHURCH Robert L. Bame, Minister (Services held temporarily Civic Club, Ashe Street) Church School, 9:45 am. Worship Service, 11 a. m.; W. S. C. S. meets each first Ti day at 8 p. m. at —This Space Donated In the GRAVES MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. CITIZENS BANK & TRUST CO. CLARK & BRADSHAW SANDHILL DRUG CO. SHAW PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. CHARLES W. PICQUET MODERN MARKET W. E. Blue JACK'S GRILL 8c RESTAURANT Interest of the Churches by— CAROLINA POWER Sc LIGHT CO. UNITED TELEPHONE CO. JACKSON MOTORS. Inc. Your FORD Dealer McNEILL'S SERVICE STATION Gulf Service PERKINSON'S, Inc. Jeweler SOUTHERN PINES MOTOR CO. A 8c P TEA CO.
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