THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
MEN AND GARDENS by Nanj
Fairweather (Knopf $5.00). This
is a rare piece—a beautiful gar
den book with no lush color
plates and one that does not tell
you how to grow a thing but will
give fresh inspiration to many a
gardener. You might say that it
deals with the philosophy and
literature of gardening but that
sounds too ponderous, and the
style is very light-hearted. You
might say that it is a history of
English gardens and gardeners
with digressions on the foreign
types that have influenced them,
but that makes it sound too sys
tematic.
The author wanders at will
through the centuries and
through many quaint and curi
ous volmes and offers you what
ever choice bit she finds like the
[seventeenth century lady who
rode side-saddle from end to end
of England, looking at other
people’s houses and gardens and
recording what she saw.
The author herself says, '“My
book is for anyone who wishes to
be reminded of gardens even
when they must stay indoors.”
The book is as full of delight
ful quotations as a rich cake is
of raisins, beginning with a num
ber on why men have gardened.
“If we believe the Scriptures,”
says Sir William Temple, “we
must allow that God Almighty
esteemed the life of many in a
garden the happiest he could
give him, or else he would not
have placed Adam in that of
Eden.” Ani William Lawson
wrote, “The very works in an
Orchard and Garden are better
than the ease and rest of other
labors.”
There are fascinating chapters
on different types of gardens and
the societies that produced and
enjoyed them—^the enclosed mon
astic, the fantastic gardens of
Tudor England, the formal gar
dens after Versailles, the natural
landscape gardens and so on. We
are gently influenced all along
to think of a garden as something
more than just a place to grow
flowers, as an expression of the
creative human spirit.
The last chapter comes down
to our day and asks, “What Do
We Want Now?”
Finally this is as perfect a
piece of book-making as we have
seen in a long time. The paper
and printing and the typographic
designs are both decorative and in
harmony with the content. Illus
trations are chiefly fine line
drawings from old books, but a
group of photographic plates
happily illustrate several of the
author’s points.
A DISCORD OF TRUMPETS.
An AutoMography by Claud
Cockburn (Simon & Sbhusiex
$3.95). There is another English
book by an erratic journalist who
flourished in fhe twenties and
thirties. The English who are
said to quote “Alice in Wonder
land” in the House of Commons,
have a refreshing way of assum
ing that the current system of
logic is not the only possible one,
and this book is a brilliant ex
ample of that school.
Claud Cockburn came of an
aristocratic British family who
for generations had taken a keen
interest and often an active part
in national affairs, and they took
their ideas seriously. In 1910 hig
father, convinced that a war
with the Kaiser was imminent,
instructed little Claud to stop
playing French and English with
his tin soldiers and play Ger
mans and English instead. This is
just a feeble sample of the doz
ens of flavorsome stories in this
book.
The author collects them with
the taste of a connoisseur. He is
said to be one of the most
sought-after conversationalists in
the world of journalism, and one
can well believe it.
For the rest he moved among
the capitals of the West from
Budapest to Washington, D. C.,
from Madrid to London and re
ported on foreign affairs for
papers as different as the London
Times and the English “Daily
Worker”—not both at once, of
course. He even published a
paper of his own, a mimeograph
ed sheet called “The Week,’
which eventually counted ainong
its subscribers most of the diplo-
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WITH THE
Armed Forces
Maj. Neal G. Grimland. whose
wife, Dorothy, lives at 310 E.
Indiana Ave., recently arrived in
Japan and is now a member of
the Army Forces, Far East,
Eighth Army.
Assigned to operations and
training office in the Army’s
headquarters, Major Grimland
entered the Army in 1942 and
was last stationed in Korea. He
holds the Purple Heart and the
Bronze Star Medal.
The major is a 1938 graduate
of Clifton (Tex.) Junior College
and the son of Mrs. N. G. Grim
land, Route 2, Clifton.
PFC. George W. Jenkins, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Jen
kins, Route 1, Cameron, partici
pated in Organiational Day ac
tivities for the new 101st Air
borne Division at Fort Campbell,
Ky., Sept. 21.
The 101st has been reorganized
along concepts of modem
atomic-age warfare and is now
a streamlined, completely air-
transportable unit packed with
firepower.
Jenkins, assigned to Support
Company of the division’s 508th
Infantry Regiment, entered the
Army in January, 1954, and re
ceived basic training at Fort
Jackson, S. C.
The 20-year-old soldier at
tended North Carolina A and T
College.
mats of Europe, international
Bankers, United States senators,
Charlie Chaplin and King Ed
ward VIII.
WANDERER UPON EARTH,
a Chronicle of the Days When
Great Religions Were Born, by
Jack Finegan Harper $3.75).
This book may be characterized
as the fantasy of a professor.
Director of the Palestine Insti
tute of Archaeology and Profes
sor of New Testament Literature
in the Pacific School of Religion,
the author has woven his re
search and his knowledge of oth
er religions into an intriguing
tale of a wanderer who seeks the
“Truth” from the Mediterranean
to the Pacific. Yaush, a youth of
Israel, escapes 'slavery when
Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusa
lem and leads the Jews into cap
tivity.
Encouraged by a word from
Jeremiah, Yaush travels East
meeting Zoroaster at a critical
moment in Persia, and later talks
with Btuddha in India, with Lao
Tu and Confucius in China as
well as some minor religious
leaders advocating other roads to
salvation. It seems that all these
did live in the same era.
However unlikely it is that one
man should have known and
conversed freely with all of
them, it makes a very readable
story and is an easy way of get
ting a smattering of comparative
religion for those who will never
make a serious study of it.
BIG DOIN'S ON , RAZOR
BACK RIDGE by Ellis Credle
(Nelson $2.75). Here is a North
Carolina story for the younger
set, about nine to 13. It is full of
hearty humor, mountain lore and
songs, of adventure, too, as when
Jodey and the bear get into the
same bee tree. The time is almost
contemporary, the year when the
great dam was finished, and we
get the conflicting opinions on
this event among the mountain
folk.
Then they learn that the Pres
ident is coming for the opening
ceremonies, and there are great
preparations. Jodey and Nancy
want to do the old-time dances
for him and their efforts to get
on the program add an element
of suspense to a rambling but de
lightful tale.
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Background Scripture: Mark 10:13-
16; Revelation 3:20; 21:1—22:21.
Devotional Reading: Isaiah 55.
T he Bible has a way of express
ing the most profound and far-
reaching truths in the simplest pos
sible way. “Come!” is a word of
one syllable, and even a child
knows what it means. But as we
find it in the book of Revelation
and elsewhere, a great deal is tied
up in it and ex
pressed by it.
Journey to God
This word, as a
command, sug
gests first of all
that man is not
where he ought to
be. He ought to
be close to God.
Some are not even Dr. Foreman
turned toward him and are moving
farther away every day. But even
those whose faces are Godward,
are never as close to him as is
possible to be. God is everywhere,
in one sense. That is, one does not
have to travel to some distant
shrine, some Holy City, to find
God. And yet even among human
beings we often feel how far we
are from those sitting in the same
room with us. And though God is
all about us. we are blind to him.
Spiritually we are feeding swine in
a far country when we ought to be
at home with God and in God.
There are diseases in which the
patient shivers with cold even in
hot sunshine. So the diseased soul
shivers with cold even in the full
flood of God’s radiant love. A pa
tient with mind diseased looks un-
seeingly into the eyes of loved
ones. How near—and yet how ter
ribly far away! In our coldness of
heart, our estrangement of mind,
we hear—or can we hear?—the
Voice say “Come!”
Who Says “Come”?
What voice is this? Two strange
words appear: The Spirit and the
Bride. Who are these? Spirit is
God; the Bride is the Church. The
Spirit is the New Testament word
for God-close-at-hand, God-in-the-
heart, God moving in heart and
mind of dedicated men. The voice
of the Spirit is the “still small
voice” the prophet heard. It is the
Spirit of God and the Spirit of
Jesus. Would it not be enough for
the Spirit to say “Come”? No, be
cause God graciously chooses to
speak also with human voices. The
Bride is the Church; and the
Church too says “Come.” In all
her services of worship and of
teaching, in all her proclaiming of
the eternal Word, in all her serv
ice to mankind, the Church says
“Come.” A church that does not
have the atmosphere of welcome is
no true church. A church that puts
back bars that our Lord has taken
down, a church that says “Come”
to a select few and says nothing at
all to the masses of men,—this is
not true “Bride” of Christ. “The
doors of this church are as wide
open as the gates of heaven,” say
some church bulletins. If that is
not true, whose fault is it?
Is Your Name Here?
Jesus once wept over a beloved
city: How often I would have gath
ered you . . . but you would not!
Christ can say, “I would; but you
would not.” But such is the
graciousness of God that no man
dare say, “I would; but God would
not.” The invitation of God has on
it, so to speak, the name of every
man who wants to write his name
there. “Whosoever will” includes
everybody who wants to be in
cluded. There is no sense in say
ing, “I never have wanted to come
to God, therefore the invitation is
not to me.” It is to you—but only
if you will. Here in Revelation it
is an invitation; in some other
parts of the Word it is a command
(e.g. “God commands aU men ev
erywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30).
The Choice Is Your Own
God can do all things. But he has
not done all the things lie could
have done. He could, no doubt,
have made men in such a way and
of such a nature that not one person
could ever possibly commit a sin,
not one person could turn away a
hair’s-breadth from God. But he
did not make such men. He could
have made men such that if they
ever strayed away from God all he
would have to say was simply
“Come” and they would come back
every one. But he did not make
men so. God would rather be loved
by men who do not have to love
him than by creatures who would
love him automatically and could
not help it. God gave man the
power to accept; but at the same
time he gave man the power to re
fuse. “Let him come!” God does
much for you; but he will not de
cide for you. God made the road
home; he holds the door- wide
open; he sends the word, “Come!”
but he leaves the coming to you,
to each man.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
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Schedule
Tuesday — Routh’s Service
Station, 9:30; Sam Taylor, 9:45;
Lewis Marion, 10; Cameron High
School, 10:15; Cameron, 11:15-
12:15; Wade Clollins, 12:30; Miss
Margaret Gilchrist, 12:45; Wal
ter McDonald, 1; Paul Thomas
Station, 1:30.
Wednesday — Doubs Chapel
route-Arnold Thomas, 10; Clyde
McKenzie, 10:15; Elmer Vest, 10:-
30; Mrs. EVancis Scarboro, 11; R.
L. Blake, 11:30; W. E. Jackson,
l5; Robert Blake, 12:20; Clyde
Auman, 12:45; Landis Cox,l;
Frank Cox, 1:20.
Thursday — Westmoore High
School, 10-11; Roland Nall, 11:45;
Charles Stutts, 12; Arthur Bald
win, 12:30; C. C. Cole, 12:45; Miss
plan Thomas, 1; Miss Jewelene
Garner, 1:30; Davis School, 2; En-
loe’s Grill, 2:30; Carthage, 3:30.
Friday — Murdocksville Road:
Dan Lewis, 9:45, W. R. Dunlop,
10; Miss M. McKenzie, 10:15;
Tom Clayton, 10:30; Mrs. Rice,
11; Mrs. Ethel Black, 11:15; Ed
ward Black, 11:30; Earl Monroe,
12; Mrs. Helen Neff, 12:30; Coy
McKenzie, 12:45; R. E. Lee, 1:15;
Wesley Cole, 1:30; Ed Smith,
1:45; Mrs. Blue, 2; Ira Garrison,
2:15; M. L. McGirt, 2:45.
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TABERNACLES
The author of the 84th Psalm was a
great lover of the earthly habitations of
God. The temples, shrines and holy places
of Israel were his chief delight. He found
them friendly, inviting and comforting to
his soul.
In one of his moments of spiritual ec-.
stasy he broke forth in song: “How ami
able are thy tabernacles, O Lord of
hosts!” he sang. “My soul longeth, even
fainteth for the courts of the Lord.”
There are millions, today who look upon
God’s earthly houses—the churches of the
land—in much the same way. They are
glad when the church hour comes and
they can mingle with others in worship
and spiritual fellowship.
The church around the corner or over
in the next block is not a cold and formal
place, once you come to know it. It
breathes friendliness and sympathy. It
comforts and inspires and points the way
to a kind and loving Cod.
Come to Church on Sunday and enjoy
the fellowship of God’s people.
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THE CHURCH FOR ALL . , .
AU. FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest (ac
tor on earth for the building of
characler and good citizenship ft
IS a storehouse of spiritual values.
W.thout a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilization can
odenH person should
oltend services regularly dnd siip-
Port the Church, They ore: U)
for his own sate. (2) For his
children s sake. (3) For the sake
of his community and nation. (41
the Church itself
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
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
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.nL
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday. 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First
Sundays and Holy Days, 8 a.m.
and 11 a.m.)
Family Service, 9:30 a.m.
Church School, 10 a.m.
Morning Service, 11 a.m.
Young Peoples’ Service League,
6:30 p.m.
Holy Communion, Wednesdays
and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and Fri
day, 9 a.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 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 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.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Dengea
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 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
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, Ashe Street)
Church School, 9:45 ajn.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each-first Tues
day at 8 p. m.
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