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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1958
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
Hannibal; One Man Against
Rome by Harold Lamb (Double-
day, $4.50.)
To read % book by Harold Lamb is
to read history in an absorbing
and colorful way. Lamb has spent
his life in meticulous research
that has evolved in such outstand
ing contributions to historical
literature as Genghis Khan and
Constantinople.
Hannibal of Carthage, unlike
many others o£ his period, still
engages the imagination of young
and old. For what other man dar
ed bring elephants over the Alps
to attack Rome? Hannibal did,
and Hannibal is the only man ex
cept Alexander the Great who
ever managed to maintain an
army on a hostile continent for
nearly a generation.
Hannibal, in Mr. Lamb’s mind,
can only be compared to Alex
ander in greatness of military
genius, the Art of Warfare. Even
the Romans had to learn strategy
from him before being able to
conquer the lands that were to
form their empire. The master
mind of psychological warfare is
not a modem general but Hanni
bal. The character of this man is
well-summed up by the following
from an annalist’s account: “His
army had endured hardships that
no one believed an army could
endure . . . Yet, holding them to
gether, he kept so large an army
from sedition against himself or
within its own ranks.”
As Carthage was totally des
troyed in 146 ,B. C., not too many
years after Hannibal’s death, the
history of the greatest and richest
seafaring people of the era had to
be written by their destroyers, the
Romans. And while the Roman
methods of warfare were in prin
ciple Carthaginian, or Hannibal’s,
Polybius relates: “The Carthag
inians fought for their own pres
ervation and sovereignty of Afri
ca, the Romans for supremacy and
world dominion.”
Harold Lamb has again written
a vivid biography of a man who
all his adult life filled the Romans
with astonishment and dread.
This book will have unusual in
terest for anyone of liigh school
age onward that can yet be spell
bound.
^ANE LA MARCHE
THE LAND BEHIND GOD'S
BACK by A. Den Doolard (Simon
& Schuster $3.50). This author
writes too rarely. He is a Hollan
der and his first book published
in this country, “Roll Back the
Sea,” was a dramatic and unfor
gettable account of the recleima-
tion of land flooded during the
last war in Holland, the most
thrilling account of an engineer
ing project that I have ever read
and with solid characters, too.
In this book his central char
acter is again an engineer, but,
this time a young Montenegrin.
Apparently the author knows the 1
Balkans, well — his pseudonym
means “The’ Wanderer;” for we
get vivid word pictures of a stern
and stony country, “a fortress with
walls hooked to the sky, sparse
ly manned by proud, ragged bar
barians.” And the Cmojevich fam
ily lived in the most remote part
of Montenegro, described locally
as “behind God’s back.”
> First there is Grandfather Sava,
a true representative of the heroic
age, a great warrior and a great
singer who saw to it that his
grandson was born to the sound
of war ballads and who was
pleaded when the neighbors con
gratulated him with the conven
tional wish, “May God preserve
him from a death in bed.”
Then, there is the next genera
tion, Stojan and his wife, Mila,
both strong, determined people
but loving peace more than war
and dreaming of a better life for
their children. Finally there is a
third generation growing up in a
land torn by wsirs, Balkan wars.
World Wars.
Most of all this is the story of
the second son. Wolf,—a name
chosen by his warrior grandfather
and tolerated by his mother whose
deepest desire is that he become
a man who would build mightily
for peace. These two influences
mayk his youth- as he grows up to
be a brilliant student and a prom
ising young engineer.
Then a chance'comes to further
his training in Italy by work on
a project near Florence, and we
see the impact of a highly sophis
ticated culture on him, made per
sonal in the beautiful Giulia and
gling with the conflicts set up by
We see Wolf Cmojevich strug-
glign with the conflicts set up by
these associations, eihergirtg as an
engineer of genius, then the in
terruption of World War II, the
.challenge to fight in the desperate
post-war struggle of his country
for independence and finally play
ing a heroic part that his grand
father would have approved. If
anyone doubt that Montenegro
Former Mother
Superior Of Notre
Dame Is Honored
Sister Berchmans Julia, S.N.D.,
formerly Mother Superior of the
Notre Dame ordter here, celebra
ted her fiftieth anniversary as a |
Sister of Notre Dame last week, j
Now a professor of philosophy'
in the noviate training school of
the Sisters of Notre Dame in II-
chester, Md., Sister Berchmans
was president of Trinity College
in Washington from 1932 to 1941.
She was honored at Trinity last
week with a High Mass.
The former Julia Schumacher
of Dayton, Ohio, Sister Berch
mans Julia entered the communi
ty of the Sisters of Notre Dame
de Namur in Cincinnati in 1906.
Recently she organized in
Greensboro the first co-educa-
tional integrated Catholic high
school in North Carolina, the
Notre Dame High School.
In addition to Southern Pines
she has served as superior of
houses of her order in Philadel
phia and Greensboro.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
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Munro Leaf (Lippincott $2.75).
This simple introduction to, science
written by Munro Leaf in his us
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dren from six to nine. It explains
how they can find out the truth
about our world “by looking and
listening Snd thinking about what
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Beginning with the difference
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Why Parables?
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L ike all good teachers, Jesus
was not tied to any one style
of teaching. But his favorite style
was the story style. To some people
this seems puzzling, as if Jesus
were almost forgetting his divine
dignity. You can imagine some
Roman intelligence officer, on the,
alert for suspi
ciously large
gatherings of
restless orientals,
going down to
the lakeside to
hear what was
going on that was
attracting such
large crowds,
some political
agitator, maybe?
Or maybe only a traveling magic
ian. But he would find neither. Only
a man in a fisherman’s boat, his
great voice (for outdoor speakers
in those days had to have tremen
dous voices) booming out, over the
crowd—of all things just telling
stories. Very simple stories too, no
plot to speak of, no dramatics. Just
stories about farmers and wheat
and housewives and fish .. . every
day things, harmless and (from
the Roman’s viewpoint) meaning
less.
For Slmpllolty
“So this is their great Teacher!”
the Roman would think to himself.
“Well, he may be all right for
farmers. There’s surely no harm In
him.” The Roman would not real
ize that he was listening to the
greatest teacher of all time, and
that in those simple stories, or
thumb-nail illustrations, which we
call parables, were wrapped up
ideas which were destined to
change the world.
Why did Jesus choose the story
style for his teaching? He could
teach with parables, as for instance
in parts of the sermon on the
mount. But according to’ Mark, he
never spoke without a parable
somewhere in his talk. One reason
why he did this was for simplicity’s
sake. The story reduces down a
complicated idea, hirrh-lwhts the
heart of it. People who have diffi
culty following or remembering a
lecture will remember a story!
For Survival
There are still on record the ser
mons of Sobie of the rabbis who
lived and taught about at the same
time with Jesus. Ihe are pretty
impressive for their scholarship,
their quotations from authorities,'
their ponderous correctness. But
nobody would remember them.
They are literally curiosities today,
little more. Jesus’ little stories on
the other hand, are memorable.
They have passed Into the language
and culture of many lands, they
have inspired works of art, they
comfort the grieving, rebuke the
sinful, gdve a lift to weary hearts.
Strange things have happened to
the human race, and will still hap
pen. Our ancestors would find it
hard to find their way aroxmd\our
electronic world, and lectures in
our class-rooms would bewilder
them. If Jesus had spoken in the
learned terms of his day, his teach
ings would have been laid away in
obscure libraries like the lectures
of other teachers of that time. But
speaking as he did. In story form,
his teaching endures to this very
day, and -will be imderstood in the
space-age of the future, if the
world lasts so long. Lectures die;
stories survive.
For Seleeflon
You remember our Imaginary
Roman official who went off think
ing what a stupid affair this story
telling was? That was part of
Jesus’ intention. The reader will
notice that it was not the Roman
officials, it was not the chief priests,
it was the disciples, who stayed
for an after-meeting and asked
what Jesus meant by his parables.
Jesus’ main effort in teaching was
to get at his own inner circle of fol
lowers. He -wanted , to stir their in
terest and curiosity, and at the
same time let the careless, the in
different, the hostile, go their way.
The story style which he made
his own, was just right for this
purpose. The parables were like
magpiets ■ that would attract only
the men with true steel in them.
The sophisticated, the know-it-alls,
then and now, hearing or reading
the parables, think only "What
simple stuff!” But the people who
are attracted by these tales and
feel there is something beneath the
surface, find in them a wisdom be
yond this world. They are as clear
as the night sky through which we
see the glory of the stars.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by
the Division of Christian Education,
Xational. Council of the Churches of
Christ in the IT. S. A. i^leased by
Community Press Service.)
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THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . .
, ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church U ihe greatest factor on
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good citizenship. It is a storehouse of
spiritual values. Without a strong Church,
neither democracy nor civilization can
survive. There are four sound reasons
why every person should attend services
regularly and support the Church. They
are: (I) 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
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Chapter Verses
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No, he doesn’t predict the future.
From antiquity the prophets have been tl
who speak for (jod. In every generation tl
have explained His promises . . . pointed
His warnings. ,
Some men believed the prophets, and saw Gc
promises fulfilled. Others were skeptical—ur
their own bitter experience vindicated Gol
warnings. I
No wonder many thought the prophets wc|
reading the future. To every thus saitk the LA
a later historian had to add and it came to pal
Ii^ a pulpit not far from your home the!
will stand next Sunday an earnest, thoughtff
consecrated man. He is a prophet! He can’t pa
diet whether you’ll come to hear him. But h^
preparing right now to speak for God—TO YO|
It is the One who calls the prophets wi
knows . . . whether you’ll come . . . whethj
you’ll believe . . . and all the future holds
store for you.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Ashe St.
Maynard Mangum, Minister
Bible School, 0:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m.
Training Union, 6:30 p.m. Evening Wor
ship. 7 :30 p.m. ♦
Youth Fellowship, 8:30 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30 p.m.;
mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.;
choir practice Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and third Tues
days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers,
second Thursday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIANSCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Avenue
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Building open
Wednesday 3-5 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Malcolm Anderton, Pastor
Sunday School 9:46 a.m. Worship Serv
ice 11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., secohd Tues. Mid-week Service on
Thursday, 7 p.m. Choir Rehearsal Thurs
days 8 p.m.' Men of the Church meeting, 8
p.m. fourth Wednesday.
EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holjr 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 jSriday, 9:80,
Saturday—6 p.m. Penance.
ST. ANTHONY'S CATHOLIC
' Vermont Ave. at Ashe
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Mass 8:10 a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 & 9
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Women’s Club meetings: 1st Monday,
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