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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
QUEEN MARY, 1867-1953 by
James Pope-Hennessey (Knopf
$10.00). The first part of this book
is perhaps a bit confusing, due to
the variety of German prince
lings who form the background
of Queen Mary’s early years.
Her extravagant mother and im
pecunious father were frequently
in debt and wandered about Ger
many and Florence until recalled
to England by Queen Victoria.
Mary, a shy girl, studious and in
telligent, was finally engaged to
the then heir to the throne, the
Duke of Clarence, who died short
ly before their marriage.
From the time of her marriage
to King George, Mary was a dedi
cated person. She personified any
body’s idea , of a queen. Rer in
terests in charity were many and
varied, especially in Needlework
Guilds. She herself was a skilled
needlewoman.
She was an avid collector, es
pecially of bibelots. In London a
few years ago I went to the Vic
toria and Albert Museum to ah
exhibition of Queen Mary’s fabu
lous collection of exquisite enam
els. Most of the handles of her
ever present parasols were of this
material;
Queen Mary was undeviating in
her loyalty to the throne and to
her husband, even in the matter of
her clothes; While the book is
long, it is easily written and it of
interest throughout. Mary’s grand
daughter, Queen Elizabeth, seems
to have many of the same quali
ties and the same strong idealism.
—J. R. H.
THE DURIEN TREE by Mi
chael Keen (Simon 8c Schuster
$3.95). This author plays on the
reader’s responses with unusual
artistry. His stofy of life in Ma
laya during the struggle with
Communist guerrillas after
World War II cOuld have been
just a taut narrative of terror and
suspense, and that element is
here true enough but does not
dominate. There are moments of
sheer delight in the enormous
fecundity, the amazing color of
the tropical landscape and, more
important, still, .moments of won
der and awe before human beings
in all their manifold variations.
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to be despised.”
His feeling for high human
quality has little to do with the
parts his characters play—Com
munist partisan or British offi-
y:ial, Senoi tribesman or old
Etonian. The plot is simple. A
young English girl is abducted
by the guerrillas. The abduction,
which occurs in the first chapter,
is an odd scene which leaves us
wondering at moods and motives.
Then follows a long jungle trek
in which we see the situation
through the mind of a grim Com
munist.
Next' in a throwback we learn
more about this girl, Candace,
her youthful joy of living, her
growing awareness of the bitter
struggle in Malaya, her genuine
love for people on both sides, her
faith in there being a solution.
The third character of major im
portance is an eccentric Australi
an wh'o has connections on both
sides in the struggle but wants to
go his own way without being
tied to either, a thoroughly ro
mantic buccaneer.
All in all, this is an exhilara
ting book despite the element of
tragedy because the main charac
ters are people of vitality and
purpose, of strong emotions,
though often conflicting ones, and
a genuine respect for each other
in their differences. It is a far
from depressing view of the last
stand of “the British raj-”
THROUGH SPAIN WITH DON
QUIXOTE by Rupert Croft-
Cooke (Knopf $5.00). This is an
enjoyable book on the Spanish
character and a sector of, the
countryside where tourists are
scarce. The author is no lover of
the modern age and deliberately
chostf to go by less travelled ways
because “the little roads of Spain
are still the roads of past cen
turies” and “not a dead thing of
macadam along which people go
shut in their metal cases, unsee
ing and almost unseen.” He went
in a small car—sometimes by
horseback, sometimes by foot—
February 23-26
Tuesday, February 23, Union
Church Route—Mrs. O. C. Black-
brenn, 9:45-9:55; Howard Gseh-
wind, 10-10:10; Mrs. Mattie Mc
Rae, 10:15-10:25; Parker’s Gro
cery, 10:30-10:35; Elbert Taylor,
10:40-10:45; M. L. Patterson,
10:50-10:55; Mrs. Ina Bailey, 11-
11:05; A. C. Bailey, 11:10-11:15;
J. M. Briggs, 11:20-11:30; Mrs.
Mabel Wood, 11:35-11:40.
Wednesday, February 24,
Schools—Cameron School, 9:45-
10:45; Vass-Lakeview School,
11:10-12:10.
Thursday, February 25, Cam
eron Route—Sam Taylor, 9:30-
9:35; James Hardy, 9:40-9:50; M.
M. Routh, 9:55-10; Lloyd Thomas,
10:20-10:30; Mrs. J. A. McPher
son, 10:35-10:45; Mrs. H. D. Tal
ly, 10:50-11; J. A. Phillips, Jr.,
11:05-11:30; Mrs. Kate H. Phillips,
11:35^11:50; Jesse Maples, 11:55-
12:05; Walter McDonald, 12:40-
12:50; Wade Collins, 1-1:10; Lewis
Marion, 1:15-1:25; Mack Oakley,
1:30-1:35; Lynn Thomas, 1:40-
1:50.
Friday, February 26, Murdocks-
ville Route—^Ira Garrison, 9:35-
9:45; Edwin Black, 9:55-10:05;
Finney Black, 10:10-10:20; W. R.
Dunlop, 10:25-10:35; Dan Lewis,
10:40-10:50; Miss Margaret Mc
Kenzie, 10:55-11; Tom Clayton,
11:05-11:15; Earl Monroe, 11:20-
11:25; Mrs. Helen Neff, 12-12:10;
Tom Young, 12:15-12:20; J. V.
Cole, 12:25-12:35; R. F. Clapp,
12:40-12:45; Art Zenns, 12;50-
12:55; Sandy Black, 1:05-1:15; E.
F. Whitaker, 1:20-1:30; H. A.
Freeman, 1:35-1:40.
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Simdty School L—w
Bible Material: Acts 30:13 through 31:1S.
DeTetlonal Beading; I Thessaloniant
3:1-12.
Top Service
Lesson for February 21» 1960
T he most over-used and Ill-
used word in the EJngllsh lan
guage, perhaps, is "service." It’s
the great American catch-word.
Your car dealer, florist, banker,
garbage collector and preacher all
talk about service. Certain business
men’s associations are called “serv
ice clubs.” In
numerable places
have the sign over
the door: SALES ^
AND SERVICE.
Schools Open for
Former Navy Men
The U. S. Navy Recruiting
Branch Station, Room 219 Grace
Pittman Building, 431 Hay St.,
Fayetteville, announces that for
mer Navy men have an opportu
nity, during February and March
to re-enlist in several Navy Class
“A” schools of their choice.
For various reasons, the schools
will have vacancies during these
two months, the announcement
said.
With only a passing glance at
This includes the depths as well' the many learned arguments as
as the heights but, like one of to the exact route followed by
with his own camping equipment
(^md his own practical Sancho as to the roads and stops of the
Panza, a tough young Spaniard.
Camus’s characters, Keon finds
"in men more to be admired than
Don Quixote, Mr. Croft-Cooke
tells us he used his own judgment
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fictitious but still much alive Don
Quixote, and he was enchanted to
find people and scenes along the
way very close to those that Cer
vantes described. He makes one
want to reread that great classic.
A TWIST OF SAND by Geof
frey Jenkins (Viking $3.35{). This
tale of adventure comes to Amer
ica after an unusual success in
j England where it headed the
I best-seller list and was hailed as
the finest sea story since “The
Cruel Sea.” It is a first book by
a young South African journalist
now on the “Johannesburg Star.”
The scene is a stormy, treacher
ous strip of shore, shoals and
small islands off the coast of
Southwest Africa known to sail
ors as the “Skeleton Coast.”
Aside from its natural barriers
it is forbidden territory because
of unworked diamond fields. Yet
here is where we first meet dar
ing Captain Macdonald, former
submarine skipper in the Royal
Navy, with an old comrade for
mate, a taciturn Scotch ehgineer
and a native crew. Just for a be
ginning the sea erupts volcanic
islands around them, and then
things go right on happening—a
hard book to put down.
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Smokey Says:
When you look
into it, often it
turns out that
what is meant by
service is “mak
ing something
good that should Dr. Foreman
have been good in the flrst place."
It is often something that is
bragged about whereas it ought to
go without saying. It is often not
done well (as ip poor restaurants
or garages) and sometimes con
sists in furnishing something not
asked for or needed-
Strviou of th« Church
The church in America can’t es
cape it. If the church did not offer
service it would be most peculiar,
and in fact would hardly be a
church at all. For it, almost alone,
serves by its very nature. All the
institutions of society that do truly
render service, were inspired or
created by the church in the flrst
place. (Orphanages and savings
banks come to mind, and there are
many others, notably schools.)
But what are the services of the
church? We often use the term
“church service” to mean the meet
ing for public worship and preach
ing. We cannot quarrel with that
use of the word, but that is not
what is meant here. What we mean
is, when the minister calls on a
new family and tells them the serv
ices of his church are at their dis
posal, what does he mean? Cer
tainly something more than to say
the worship-meetings of the church
are open to them.
Many minor methods of service
are used by the church: operating
kindergartens, book clubs, employ
ment agencies, loan funds, not to
mention more elaborate projects
such as educating people on the
moral side of public questions,
operating hospitals, publishing
houses, schools and so on. By call
ing these “minor” we do not mean
they are unimportant or that the
church should not undertake them.
When Paul wrote: “Let us do good
to idl men, especially to those who
are of the household of faith,” he
laid down the foundation principle
of every service project that de
serves the name.
Nevertheless, the question still is:
What is the most vital service, the
top service the church can render ?
Surely it must be to give people
what they need the most. Suppose
a man is dying of a serious disease.
He may not vmnt any particular
me<flcine, or any medicine at all.
But a doctor, examining him, may
know just the specifle medicine for
his trouble. He ministers to the
man’s need, not to his immediate
appetite.
What human beings need most
is, in one word, God. The church
is doing the supreme service for
us when it shows us the way back
to God. (Let us rather say, the way
forward to God; he is ahead of us,
not the other way around.) The
doorway to God has two keys, like
a safety deposit box: one key is
marked Faith and the other Re
pentance. God gives us the keys
hut never forces us to use them.
To Feed and Defend
The church is often thought of
as a flock of sheep, its leader as
shepherds. In addressing the elders
of Ephesus, who remembered well
his three years among them, Peul
marks out the two things a shep
herd does for his sheep: to feed and
to defend them against wolves and
other beasts. Some people suppose
that a church’s service is confined
simply to proclaiming repentance
and faith — in other words, the
church’s whole and only btisiness is
evangelism. This was not Paul’s
practice. He, and the elders after
him, if they followed his example,
also fed and defended Christ’s peo
ple. “Feeding” means all the church
does in nourishing and building up
Christ-like character, especially
teaching, preaching, counseling,
training for Christian service at
the highest levels. “Defending”
means keeping the church strong,
despite the attacks of all who would
destroy it, from without or within.
(Based on ontlines copyrighted by
tbe Division of Christian Bdncatlon,
National Council of the Churches of
Christ in the C. S. A. Beleased by
Community Press Service.)
Rounds to Judge
Writing Contest
Glen H. Rounds, of Southern
Pines, is one of 30 prominent U.
S. authors, educators and literary
critics who will judge entries in
this year’s Scholastic Magazines
Writing Awards, the nation’s
largest literary contest for high
school students. He has been a
judge in the contest for the past
eight years.
The annual creative writing
event is conducted “to encourage
and recognize talented high school
writers and provide teaching help
in English and literature classes.”
Cardy Mare Foals
Filly by Nashua
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon G. Cardy
of the Alpine Inn Ste. Marguerite
Station, Canada, received the
news while vacationing in Flori
da, living aboard their yacht,
“Sun Shower,” that their mare,
Levee, foaled a bay filly by Nas
hua at Spendthrift Farm, Lexing
ton, Ky.
Levee’s first foal was a colt
named Royal Levee by Royal
Charger and is now 11 months old.
Mr. and Mrs. Cardy are former
winter residents of Southern
Pines. t
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THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . .
ALL FOR THE CHURCH
Th« Chuteh U ihe greatest factor on
c&rth for the WiHing of character and
good cittzea$hlp. It ia a $lorehoa$e of
gpiritual valuei. Wilhoat 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: (1) For his own sake. (2) For hit
children's sake. (3) For the sake of his
community and nation. (4) For the sake
of the Church itself, which needs hii
moral and material support. Plan to go
to church regularly and read your Bible
daily.
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Play it saf6; don’t flip anything
out of the ear that has. fire
attached!
Book
Chapter
Matthew
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Psalm*
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I Peter
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I Corintlvu. 3
I^aims
119
Psalm*
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Matthew
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A child’s faith is beautiful in its sim
plicity and in the little things it encom
passes. Like, for instance, the nightly
ritual that comes at the end of prayer.
“God bless Mommy and Daddy and Cousin
Peter and Kitty Xat and my blue teddy
bear.”
To a child, there is no reason why God
should not bless also a crumpled and
.slightly soiled teddy bear, and a pet kitty.
For God is goodness and love and kindness
and tolerance . . . not perhaps in those
words, but in the feeling this child has as
she says her prayers.
Prayer, to the child who has been
taught to pray, is a natural thing. It
should be as much a part of everyday life
as eating and sleeping and playing. To
pray for what is good ... to give thanks
for what one has is an all-important step
in that all-important right direction on
the road of life.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Are. at Soath Aaho St
Maynard Hancam. Minister
Bible School. 9:46 a.m. Worship 11 a.m.
Training Union, 6:30 p.m. Evening Wor
ship-. 7 :30 p.m.
YoiKh Fellowship, 8:30 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30 p.m.;
mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:30 p.zn. i
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.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Avenue
Sunday Service, 11 a.m. s
Sunday School. 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Building open
Wednesday, 2-4 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Malcolm Anderton. Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Serv
ice 11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tues. Mid-week service on
Wednesday, 7:30 r*m. Choir Rehearsal,
Wednesday. 8:15 p.m. Men of the .Cburch
meeting, 8 p.m. fourth Wednesday.
METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
Robert C. Mooney,.Jr., Minister
Church School 9:45 A. M.
Worship Service 11:00 A. M.
Youth Fellowship 6:30 P. M.
Junior Fellowship 6:30 P. M.
WSCS meets each third Monday at 8
P. M.
Methodist Men meet each third Thurs
day at 6:30 P. M.
Choir Rehearsal each Wednesday at
7:30 P. M.
ST. ANTHONY^S CATHOLIC
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Sunday Masses: 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Daily
Mass 8:10 a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 & 9
a.m.; Confessions, Saturday, 6:00 to 6:80
p.m.: 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Men's Club Meetings: Ist & 8rd Fridays
8 p m.
Women's Club meetings: 1st Monday,
8 p.m.
Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Tuesday eve
ning 7 :30 p.m.
Girl Scout Troop No. 118, Monday, 8
p.m.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOWSHIP
(Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Carl E. Wallace^ Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:80 p.m., Pilgrim Fellowship
(Young People).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
Chevea K. Ligon, Minister
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship serv
ice, 11 a.m. Women of the Church meet
ing, 8 p.m. Monday following third Sunday,
The Youth' Fellowships meet at 7 o'clock
each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday, 7:15 pjn.
EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal)
' East Massachusetts Aye.
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 ^iday, 9:30.
Saturday—6 p.m. Penance.
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