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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
wits of England in his gardens
and speculation ranged wildly.
The story is told in the first
person by Liza Bowe, barmaid at
the Mermaid Tavern. This limits
our view but adds an effect of
personal acquaintance with cel
ebrities, pleasing to those who
like to identify themselves with
heroine or hero. Liza is a compe
tent, hard-working barmaid and
a veiy well behaved girl, devoted
to her Philip,* a young gentleman
of the poets circle at the Mer
maid. Philip himself has become
obsessed by the Faust legend
THE RELUCTANT LEGION-1 tist’s cautious scrutiny of facts
NAIRE by Michael Alexander and theories. It is a rare find for
(Dutton $3.50). This is a true anyone who likes to ponder the j 'life'for Eliza
story and what a story! Though ways of Nature, whether ama-I
it begins with a quotation from teur field naturalist or^just the | makes a pleasing roman-
“Beau Geste”, times and methods armchair variety. “Day and
tic tale, and the background
have changed since P. C. Wren night, from one end of the year considerable knowledge of
wrote his tale of the Foreign Le- to the other. . . millions of livmg Elizabethan days and ways
gion. When West de Wind Fen- creatures are moving through air,
ton who “had everything—mon- and land and sea, just as they
eyed ease, influential friends, have moved for hundreds of
gay parties and a blue-blooded thousands of years, weaving
family history” joined the around the globe a network of
Foreign Legion in a fit of repres- peregrinations, some of them six
Sion and then decided he did not thousand miles long.” What
like that life, the problem of get- drives them? How do they know
ting him out is taken up gaily when to start, what direction to
enough by some of his friends at follow?
a London party. He had written The author does not attempt a
to a girl of' his circle about one ' comprehensive study of all
unsuccessful attempt at escape, known migrations but selects a
“I had quite fun while on the run few and gives us vivid word pic-
but the prison was veryscruffy.”, tures of these along with brief
Michael Alexander was the man accounts of man’s attempts to ex-
elected to rescue him because of plain them frorr\ Aristotle to the, . - -
his war time experience in North latest findings of science. We see ^ was still a molten mass of fiery-
Africa. Money for travel and the graylag geese leaving the hot doughy material. It gives
bribes seemed of first import- plains of Turkestan, awkwardly | tests to determine what you
ance, and the resourceful Mich- plodding south on foot during the rocks contain, and it tells ab
ael decided it could best be ob- moulting season and then, with
tained by selling the story before' riow feathers grown, flying great
he started. The interviews with mountain ranges until they sur-
editors, literary agents, and pub- mount the last barrier of all, the
lishers give a fantastic picture of,high Himalayas,
how some things happen in our| We follow the smolt, or young
world today. A contract was ,salmon, from his mountain
finally made and off the rescuer' stream to the sea and see him
THE STORY OF ROCKS by
Dorothy Shuttlesworth with il
lustrations by Su Zhn Swain,
(Garden City $2.50). When the
child begins to bring home stones
that attract his attention because
of their, appealing texture or
shape, he is on his way toward
a real rock collection. Mrs. Shut
tlesworth tells how to transcribe
this interest into knowledge. Her
book, with many full-color illus
trations, is designed to help the
child identify rocks. It tells about
rock-forming minerals from their
very beginning when the earth
went, accompanied by a friend
who wanted a holiday and Lady
come back again years later and
many pounds heavier to the same
Mary Rous, daughter of an earl, remote stream. We watch the
—^the newspaper insisted on her vast and mysterious migrations
for romantic interest. of the buffalo, the eel, the locusts
There is a great deal of dash-' and the suicide rush of the lem-
ing about Algiers in cars and mings into the sea. Behind all
much drinking in bars as they | this and involved in the varied
pursue the elusive Fenton, explanations of it are the winds
French officialdom regards them and tides, the movement of sun,
with no favor at all and the For- moon and stars.
metals with strange properties.
In the last chapter, entitled
“Strictly for Rock-Hounds,” Mrs.
.Shuttlesworth suggests ways to
collect and then store collections.
She says that although it is
sometimes difficult for a city
child to find speciments, there
are always possibilities where a
new road or bridge is being built.
A quarry, a lake, sea, or river
front may be wonderful places
for field trips. Mrs. Shuttlesworth
tells how to keep records of
“finds,’ and lists the simple
equipment which is needed.
eign Legion obviously tries to
prevent any contact with their
recruit. It resembles the gayer
type of mystery story at this
point and builds up good sus
pense.
There is a whirlwind finish in
Africa and an odd chapter in Lis
bon but oddest of all is the end
ing in England where Fenton is
again incarcerated, this time by
the newspaper which wants to be
sure of an exclusive story. The
tale is told in a witty and amus
ing way.
Not since St. Exupery have I
read an author so conscious of
the oneness of the universe. It
may not be fair to quote this out
of context, but Georges Blond is
convinced that man, too, “is ^
much more closely intergrated ^eadedness.
with the cosmos than he general
ly believes.”
LIZA Bowe, a Novel of Eliza-
belhian Times and Ihe Mermaid
Tavern by Shirley Barker (Ran
dom $3.50). This is a light-heart
ed book of those brilliant, crowd
ed days when Kit Marlowe and
Avery County, in Western
North Carolina, was named for
Col. WaightstiU Avery, Revolu
tionary patriot who, when chal
lenged to a duel by young An
drew Jackson, allowed him to
fire, then marched up and lec
tured him on the evils of hot-
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Lesson for November 25, 1956
W HAT does the word “prodi
gal” mean? Ask some Sun
day school class that, and you may
be surprised at how many bad
guesses you hear. Actually the
name simply means “wasteful.” Je
sus never named his parables; and
sometimes the
names the church
has given them
fit, and some
times not. The
parable of the
■‘prodigal son”
might be better
named “The Two j
Prodigal Sons”
or “The Forgiv
ing Father.” Dr. Foreman
Two Ways of Wasting
There are two ways of being
prodigal or wasteful. One is to use
up and destroy what might have
been saved. If you let good farm
machinery sit around in the rain
till it rusts, you are wasting equip
ment. If you use expensive butter
for a job a little bacon grease will
do just as well, you are wasting
the butter. If you are a general
and order a useless assault in
which thousands of men needlessly
lose thir Jives, you are wasting hu
man life. All these wasteful acts,
great and small, are done in the
same way, essentially by throwing
away or spoiling what might have
been saved and use. Another way
of wasting is just not to use what
is there to use, something which if
you do not use now you will never
have the chance to use again. An
example of this is water power.
The' river flows on its way, devel
oping so many horsepower with
every mUe; if these are not used
today, tomorrow the horsepower—
today’s horsepower—will be gone.
You waste water power not by de
stroying it but by failing to use it.
The Younger Son
Now in Jesus’ famous parable,
the two sons were both wasters,
but in opposite ways. Take the
younger one: Give me ... he said,
and off he went. A young fortune
was in his hands; but he threw it
away, he was through ./ith it, he
was through, “period,” in no time.
Ther^ was something else he
wasted; his father’s love and con
fidence. He virtually treated his fa
ther as if he were already dead.
This younger son is, of course, the
type of the reckless sinner who
wastes his health, strength, char
acter, perhaps money too, the sort
of man who is called a “wastrel”
or waster. The time, life, strength
that such a man wastes cannot be
brought back again. You could go
down to Skid Row or to the nearest
hospital for drug addicts and con
vert them every one; but you could
never give them back the “years
the locusts have eaten.” God for
gives such men, as the father in
Jesus’ story forgave the younger
prodigal; but just as the father in
that story could not recall from the
four winds the wasted fortune and
the wasted, years, so not even God
ever turns the clock or the calen
dar back.
The Older Son
But that older boy—he too was a
waster. Only he wasted in the other
way, not by destroying but not
using. There seems to be some
thing deeply sad in the father’s.
simple saying: “Son, you are al
ways with me, and all that is mine
is yours.” This was true—and yet
the son had made it untrue. “You
are always with me”—so near, hnd
yet so far away. None of the fa
ther’s spirit had penetrated the
boy’s mind. He was physically at
home yet spiritually a stranger. He
too, in a different way, had lived
like an orphan. Every day there
was open to him a father’s heart,
a father’s sympathy, a father’s
wealth; but he never took ft. If for
the younger boy there was waste-
by-destruction, for the older there
was waste-by-neglect. Did the fa
ther forgive this son too? The story
does not say. The impression most
people get is' perhaps what Jesus
intended to suggest: The father
was ready to forgive each son; but
the younger son was forgiven, be
cause he had “come to himself,”
he had confessed his wrong. The
older son was not (go far as the
story takes us) forgiven, because
he did not seem to be conscious of
having done anything wrong. Of
course he was the type of the
Pharisees; but the Pharisees are
not dead. In the church and out
there are correct, respectable citi
zens who know nothing of God’s
love for their lost brothers, and so
have never known the God they
officially call “Father.” God will
forgive such a man too; but per-
' haps he seldom does, for such a
man seldom thinks he needs it.
(Based on outlines copyrlsrhted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
Tuesday—Routh’s Service Sta-I
tion, 9:30; Sam Taylor, 9:45;!
Lewis Marion, 10; Cameron!
School, 10:15; Cameron, 11:15-!
J2:15; 'Wade Collins, 12:30; Miss
Margaret Gilchrist, 12:45; Wal-|
ter McDonald, 1; Paul 'Thomas
station, 1:30.
Wednesday — Doubs Chapel
Rt.; Arnold Thomas, 10; Clyde
McKenzie, 10:15; Elmer 'Vest,
10:30; Mrs. Frances Scarboro, 11;
R. L. Blake, 11:30; W. E. Jackson,
12; Robert Blake, 12:30; Clyde
Auman, 12:45; Landis Cox, 1;
Frank Cox, 1:30. |
Thursday—^Westmoore School,
10; Roland Nall, 11:45; Charles
Stutts, 12; Arthur Baldwin,
12:30; C. G. Cole, 12:45; Davis
School, 1:15; Enloes Grill, 1:45;
Carthage, 2:30. |
Friday—Murdocksville Road:
Dan Lewis, 9:45; W. R. Dunlap,
10; Miss Margaret McKenzie,
10:15; Tom Clayton, 10:30; Mrs.
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jll;15; Edward Black, 11:30; Earl Smith, 1:45; H. E. Blue, 2; Ha
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NOVEMBER
22 ThanksgivingDeuteronomy 5:1-21
23: Psalms ....19:1-14
24 ..Psalms ... .27:1-14
25 Sunday Psalms ....46:1-11
26 * Psalms ...103:1-22
27 ..Psalms ....121:1-8
130:1-8
2d...e Psalms ...145:1-21
29.. . •••Proverbs ... .3:1-20
30.. . Isaiah 40:1-11,28-31
DECEMBER
1 Isaiah 55:1-13
2 Advent. •*.... Luke 6:20-49
3 John 1:1-28
John 1:29-51
S.•.•••••»•••• John 3:1-36
6.. •••• «•••••• John ••■•••. .4:1-38
John 15:1-27
8 John 17:1-26
9 Universal
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10 Acts ...
11. Romans
12. ••••••«••••• Romans
13. •.•••••••••• I Corinthians
13:1-13
14. «««.«4.*.«...l%ilippiaD8 .'4:1-23
15 Hebrews ..11:1-40
16 Sunday Luke 10:23-42
17 .....Luke 11:1-17
18.. .. Luke 12:22-34
19 Luke ......15:1-10
20 Luke 15:11-32
21 Xnke 1:1-23
22 Xuke ......1:24-38
23 Sunday Lake 1:39-56
24 Luke 1:57-80
25 Christmas... Luke 2:1-20
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Without a strong Church, neither
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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 pun., 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 p. m.
Holy Communion, Wednesdays
and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and Fri
day, 9:30.
Saturday—6 p. m. Penance.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Asha
Da'vid 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
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day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice
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Missionary meeting, first and
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and family suppers, second Thurs
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CopgirUiht 1956, Keister Adw, Servtee, btirwbiirs. Ve-'V
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 (CalhoUc)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 am.;
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 Shm.;
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 Strefet)
Church School, 9:43 am
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. C. S. meets each first Tues
day at 8 p. m.
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