Word: heathen
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...Jewish district known as Mea Shearim (Hundred Gates) to roll heavy stones across the entrances to the quarter. Thus they make sure that for the next 24 hours-until the first three stars are visible on Saturday night-there will be no profanation of their self-imposed "ghetto" by "heathen" Jews who do not observe the Sabbath. No one smokes or turns on a light, carries money in his pocket, or answers a phone...
...book, Mankind So Far, which deals with such a complex topic as human evolution, is so lucid and light that it has sold over 20,000 copies. This sale is a incase for a scientific none that Doubleday was also happy to snap up his two subsequent books, The Heathen, a study of primitive religious, and Back of History, the history of humans, published this year...
...Mission of the Church to Those Outside Her Life," which will lay less emphasis than usual on conversion of "the heathen," instead pay more attention to what one churchman called the heathen at home-the unchurched and indifferent masses living in nominally Christian countries...
...world from the heathen...
...turned out to be a terribly thin covering of ice over a sea of primitive barbarity . . . There is no doubt but that in recent years the whole conception of a Christian civilization in the West has been pitilessly exposed as an illusion-not least in the eyes of the heathen and Mohammedan world...