Word: heathen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Arrived at the fair, Busy warns the Littlewits to beware of the "heathen," and all enter Ursula's booth to partake of pig. Justice Overdo enters, still preserving his incognito, and the extravagant Cokes begins to buy up all the toys and ginger-bread at the fair. He has his purse cut by Edgworth while Nightingale creates a diversion by ballad singing, and Justice Overdo, suspected of the theft, is given into custody. The Puritanical Busy then tries to seize Leatherhead's toys on the ground that they are "idols" which must be "torn down," and is arrested...
...mission movement had two distinct motives, philanthropic pity for the moral condition of the heathen, and dogmatic intensity to spread Christianity. The spirit has since grown better and broader because of the growth of humanism and of the increased knowledge of the spirit and life f the East...
...welcome at St. John's Chapel. Rev. S. C. Hughson, who has worked among the colored people in the South, and Rev. A. M. Sherman, of Hankow, China, spoke in Brooks House yesterday evening about the opportunities for mission work among the poor in the United States and the heathen in foreign countries...