^ THURSDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Caroling
Page THREE
c'
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
OTHNEIL JONES by John Le-
land (Lippincotl $3.75). Review
ed by KalhiiTine Boyd.
This is a good book: good to
read, good to think over again
afterwards. As you think, the
.scenes, the characters come back
to you and you know that it’s a
book to keep by you, to read
again.
It’s a good book, first of all
because it’s a good story. The
eighteen-year-old Othneil Jones
lives with his mother on the
frontier of Carolina. Following
her heroic and tragic death, he
leaves her “to go to the Low
Country,’’ as she has wished. On
the way he gets tangled up in
the Revolution, a tangle that be
comes the rest of the story. He
has some close brushes with the
British, joins up with Marion’s
men in the great swamps, takes
part in the heroic capture of the
British wilderness fort. He final
ly gets to Charleston, where he
finds The Girl and sees the Brit
ish at closer quarters than any of
them like. All ends on a note of
true love rewarded, but not
without a strong sense of furth
er adventures to come.
If will be seen that this is a
real story: one that will delight
young as well as old, for it is full
of action and drama that follows
quick and fast, sometimes, in
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fact, with an unruly aptness. But
it should not by any means be
imagined that this is a “juve
nile.’’ Mr. Leland’s writing is ma
ture, his character-study con
vincing and his understanding is
deep: he can paint men in ac
tion, in simple comradeship, in
anguish of mind or body; the
sensitive poet-patriot, the jovial
but shrewd militiaman, the wise
and courtly gentleman of the
Low Country plantation, who,
under duress, entertained the
British colonel in his pEirlor the
while his servants and his
daughter. The Girl, move the rice
from the cellar to send it to Gen
eral Marion’s starving brigades.
Mr. Leland paints them all with
honesty and skill. His touch is
sure and his colors true.
He goes deeper, farther, and
evokes the feeling of the people
and the country; the feeling of
the Revolution.
Needing to check on a name,
we looked for the book again.
Not here? Where then. . . oh yes:
right where we had put it, in the
middle row of shelves marked:
.“American novels: Keep.”
We slipped it from its place be
tween Kenneth Roberts’ “West
ern Passage” and “The Year
ling,” looked up the name and
then put it back.
(Alter this review was
written and set in type, the
news of Mr. Leland’s death
was received in Southern
Pines. An obituary appears
elsewhere in today’s Pilot—
of particular interest because
of Mr. Leland’s close person
al connection with the Sand
hills.)
GAUTAMA, the Story of Lord
Buddha as told by Shakuntalai
, Masani (Blackie $1.50). This
I slender, exquisite book was print-
|ed and bound in India. I have
, never seen so attractive and sim-
|ple a presentation of the life of
this great religious leader and
his principles of the Four Truths
land the Eightfold Path of right
, living and right thinking. Nor for
I all its simplicity is the book
! without the decoration of Orien
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were that of the Buddha. Even
when he was dying In the shade
of the sal trees, these “were cov
ered with ■ white blossoms al
though this was not the time of
year for their blossoming. As tlje
Lord lay on his couch, the blos
soms drifted down and gently
fell on him.”
This book offers a pleasing and
particularly lucid introduction to
a religion that has Influenced the
history of humanity and still
holds the allegiance of millions.
Like other religions. Buddhism
has sometimes developed corrupt
forms and had corrupt followers,
but here we see it in its early
morning purity when the gentle
Siddhartha—shocked by his first
sight of age, illness and death,—
gives up wealth, family, royal
status to go away and seek Truth
and Peace.
The story of his long search,
of his temptations in the wilder
ness, and how complete enlight
enment finally came to him
make the first half of the book.
The second tells of the followers
that he gathered Eiround him,
how he taught them and told
them to go and teach others un
til many were converted and
how finally in the fullness of time
he left them, attaining that state
of endless peace and joy which is
Nirvana.
Some very distinguished line
drawings by Nina von Leyden il
lustrate this book, and there are
numerous decorations with
Oriental motifs, including the
uncom'monly handsome initial
letters.
WHITEY ROPES AND RIDES,
wiiiten and illustrated by Glen
Rounds (Holiday $2,251). This au
thor, erstwhile of Pinebluff but
now with one foot in Southern
Pines, has written another first-
rate book for boys. Whitey, that
doughty young cowboy is riding
the plains again, but this time
—believe it or not—there is a
girl in the cast. Whitey didn’t
think much of it when he heard
Josie was coming to stay with
them, he even threatened to pack
and leave; for he and Uncle Tor-
wal had been keeping house for
years without any interference
from womenfolk. But Uncle Tor-
wal explained to him that the
gal wouldn’t ever learn anything
if brought up in town, so Whitey
agreed to tolerate her. She turn
ed out to be right handy at
chores and respectful of his
prowess in ranch matters. 'Then
when they set out to practice for
the Calf and Steer Riding events
at the Cheyenne Rodeo, she pro
duced some useful ideas. Their
main trouble came in getting the
stock on the ranch to cooperate,
especially their pet calf that had
grown into a steer. How arrange
ments were made for them to get
practice without damage'to the
stock or themselves makes an
amusing ending to an enjoyable
tale.
The drawings are in that su
perb line we have come to ex
pect from the Old Master,—alive,
expressive, economical. I remem
ber watching another artist
study a Rounds drawing, sigh
and shake his head, “If I could
draw just one line like that—”
Should it never have occurred to
you that drawings can express
more than photography, look at
the cows on page thirty-two. In
fact, look at them anyway,
though they will probably out-
stare you.
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Background Scrtpiurc: Sxodus 20:1--
Devotional Reading: Psalm 19:7-14.
Why God Says No!
Lesson for October 14, 1956
Dr. Foreman
A QUESTION often asked about
the Ten Commandments is
this: Why are they aU in the neg
ative? It aU seems to be “Don’t,
don’t.” Does God hang chains on
us to hamper our freedom? Is God
more interested in stopping us from
what we want to
do than in show
ing us what to
do? Why the em
phasis on the neg
ative? Isn’t Chris
tian morality,
' right living be
fore God, a posi
tive thing? Can a
set of prohibitions
be a solid base
for life today?
“Don’t” Is a Useful Word
Let’s look at this a little. For one
thing, it must be remembered that
the Ten Commandments, as they
are called, were not invented by
Moses or first revealed to him. We
know that centuries before Moses,
wise men were saying it already,
and it is pretty safe to suppose
that most people knew it,—namely
that stealing and killing and adult
ery are wrong. The reason Moses
gave the Ten Commandments was
not that either he or God had just
discovered them. These Command
ments came out in their present
form (dr possibly a shorter form,
enlarged later) for the benefit and
guidance of a very primitive peo
ple, just out of slavery where they
and their forefathers had been for
generations. For people like that
“Don’t” is easier to understand
than “Do.” A little child can be
saved from being hurt or killed just
by learning the meaning of the lit
tle word NO. “Don’t” is a useful
word. It is simpler, too, to say
“Don’t” than “Do.” Learning to do
well takes time, and brains too.
You don’t have to learn to stop.
You don’t have to be a “brain” to
stop doing wrong. So the Ten Com
mandments begin at the right end,
the simple end. “Thou shalt not,”
or “Don’t,” in other words, is not
the whole of what goodness means;
but it is a good place to begin.
Under Control
Nowadays it is not popular to
jnention such words or ideas as
discipline, self-control, temperance,
or restraint; but these are good
things in their place, and no life is
good that ignores them. Doing
what you want to do when you feel
like doing it without asking any
body is a small boy’s dream, but
it is no way for a grown man or
woman to live. This is another rea
son why so many of the Ten Com
mandments begin with “Don’t.”
Brakes say “No” to a car, and a
car without brakes isn’t safe for a
minute. Stakes say “No” to sprawl
ing vines, but the vines are the
better for being tied up. Pruning
shears say “No” to grape-vines;
but unpruned grapevines soon run
down. Rails say “No” to train
wheels; and when the wheels (so
to speak) decide to go where they
please, you have a wreck. “Doing
what comes naturally” may be
silly, sinful, even criminal. -Im
pulses can be harmful and hateful.
Instincts may be warped or ex
aggerated. The disciplined, self-
controlled life is not a life of mere
repression; but if there is no re
pression anywhere, if there is no
response and obedience when God
says “No,” then life becomes a
tangle like an untrimmed grape
vine, a smash-up like a train that
tries to cross a field without rails.
Every Don’t Has a Do!
Every “don’t” has a matdhing
“do” of some kind. Thou shalt not
steal means also. Thou shalt not
waste property. Thou shalt con
serve the earth’s resources. Thou
shalt respect property. When you
see a farmer using intelligent
methods to prevent or cure soil
erosion, you may think about it,
and he may not; but he is trying
to prevent stealing or wasting the
land on which future generations
may depend. He is obeying the
Eighth Commandment. But such a
farmer shows that right living con
sists not merely in refusing to com
mit a certain smaU list of selected
crimes: right living is not only not
stealing land (for example) from
the rising generation, right living
includes also doing all one can to
pass on to those who shall come
after, land that shall have become
—because wisely used—more fer
tile and fruitful,than it was before.
In the same way with all other
commandments, every Don’t! has
a Do! Thou shalt not kill means
not only committing no murder,
shortening no life; it means con
tributing to life and health all we
can, wherever we can. “Temper
ance” is not mere restriction, it is
not life-denying; it is life-building.
(Based on outlines copyrig:hted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the TJ. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
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Tuesday-^. D. Lewis, 9:30;^
Michaels Store, 9:45; Paul Green,!
1():15; Ben Blue, 10:30; Farm
Life School, 10:45; Miss Velma
Prim, 12; John Blue, 12:15; C.
F. "Wlicker, 12:30; H. A. Blue,
12:45; Leves Store, 1:15; E. B.
Cook, 1:45; Miss Flora Blue, 2:15.
Thursday—W. G. Inman, 10;
Highfalls School, 10:30; High-
falls, 11:15; Putnam, 12:15; Glen-
don, 2:45; L. W. Edwards, 1:15;
R. F. Wilcox, 1:45; Miss Irene
Nicholson, 2:15; Carthage, 2:45.
Friday—W. E. Graham, 10;
Jackson Springs Post Office,
10:30; J. C. Blue, 10:45; James
Hicks, 11; Carl Tucker, 11:15;
Miss Margaret Smith, 11:30; J. W.
Blake, 11:45; Miss Adele McDon
ald, 12:15; George Hunt, 12:30;
Garren Hill Road, 12:45.
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Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday
THiy WONT B1 LATT !
Maybe they were slow in dressing ... probably
they dawdled a bit over breakfast. . . but if you
know the gait of those little legs you can be
sure they won’t be late.
This is one of the fascinating paradoxes of
youth. A child may have to be prodded to get to
school on time—yet he doesn’t want to be late!
And the paradox has implication for parents
as they plan the religious education of their
children. Jimmy may seem reluctant about his
first trip to Church School . . . and Susan may
shed a tear when Mother “leaves” her in the
Beginners’ Department. But wise parents never
delay their youngsters’ religious training. Tt is
unfair to handicap a child with a late start in the
vital process of moral and spiritual growth.
' Inquire at the church of your choice, and bring
your child to Church School as soon as he is
of age.
And, remember, parents need religious train
ing too! If you do not now attend Church regu
larly, start with Jimmy and Susan.
THE CHURCH FOR AU. . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest fac
tor on earth for the building of
character and good citizenship.' It
is o storehouse ol spiritual values.
Without a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilization can
survive. There are lour sound
reasons lehy every person should
attend services regularly and sup
port the Church. They are- (1)
For his own. sake. (2) For his
children's sake. (3) For the sake
Of his community and nation. (4)
For the sake of the Church itself,
which needs his moral and ma
terial support. Plan to go to
church regularly and read your
Bible daily.
Chapter Verses
hyoday Habakkufc 2 1-20
Monday II Timothy 3 i-iy
Tuesday.... Matthew 6 9-24
Wednesd’y Matthew 7 i.ta
Thursday... Philippians 2 1-18
n Timothy 1 i-is
Saturday.,. .1 John 2 1-17
Copyright 1956, Keister Adr. Service, Strasburg, Va.
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.m.
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 Atha
David Hoke Coon. Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship
H 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
CHtiRCH
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 (CathoUe)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
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 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
day at 8 p. m.
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