Word: heathen
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...trade, this tiny book contains perhaps the nearest thing to piety in Mencken's writings. It is a moral tale, told in the Sage of Baltimore's redolent and contented prose. The story-originally printed in the New Yorker-attests to the triumph of Christian reflexes over heathen among the bums of Baltimore 45 years...
Sacred Past. Once Montreal had been the doorway to all of North America. Out of the "sacred city," founded in 1642, went Marquette, Champlain, La Salle, Du Luth, Joliet and many another to explore the New World and baptize the heathen Indians...
...Sunday school prize little Catharine Mabie won a booklet which told the pathetic story of an African slave girl. From that time forward, it was her ambition to bring Christianity to Africa's heathen. Under the auspices of the Baptist missions society, she set out in 1898 to fight fever and fetish in the Belgian Congo...
...those 37 years his machine ticked ceaselessly. It kept a card index on all voters, saw that every true believer paid a poll tax and cast a ballot, discouraged all heathen who could not be converted to the Crump gospel. If it had occasionally voted a few dead men, or juggled ballots in the sub-basement of the impressive Shelby County Courthouse, it did so piously and only as a minor emergency measure...
...state of religion in Eng land has fallen so low that bold, modern methods (i.e., extensive use of radio, cinema, stage, television, the press) should be tried to revive it. Of the British people the commission said: "We are called to a far harder task than to evangelize heathen, who do worship (however ignorantly) a power higher than themselves. In England the Church has to present the Christian gospel to multitudes in every section of society who believe in nothing, who have lost . . . the spiritual dimension, and for whom life has no ultimate meaning. . . . Only a small percentage...