Word: heathen
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...Pilgrims, a strange sect who worship the moon out in the cypress swamps with four-part harmony and orgiastic dancing. Sulamai seems to have an irresistible appeal for the minor clergy. Writhing in ecstasy among the half-naked New Day Pilgrims, she also distracts the heathen big black Brother Moses from pure contemplation of the moon. Back in Hope Baptist Church, Pastor Jones is conducting a six-day camp meeting to bring his straying lamb back to the fold. Jim sees the error of his ways, returns to Ella. The vicious Sulamai is killed by a bolt of lightning...
...anyone but Tristan, a light-loving, thick-skinned rascal, Mark's hated nephew. That was all right with Palamede. His intentions toward her were almost unbelievably honorable. He never noticed that Brangain. Isolde's pretty cousin, was his for the taking. In the ensuing Christian intrigues heathen Palamede stood firm and pure. But finally he could stand it no longer: in a great hurry he had himself made a Christian and picked a fight with Tristan. When he had given Tristan his death-wound Palamede began to realize he might have done the wrong thing. Sure enough. Isolde...
...bore himself. To a Methodist preacher, a slavery-believer who came to see him, old John Brown said: "My dear sir, you know nothing about Christianity; you will have to learn its A, B and C. I respect you as a gentleman, of course, but as a heathen gentleman." The Virginians were reluctant but they had to hang John Brown. And when they hanged him they started a song that ended...
...received full Baptist support. He translated the Bible into Burmese, compiled a Burmese grammar and dictionary, suffered in prison, lived for a time in an empty lion's cage with a testament for his pillow, died at sea after building 63 churches and 163 missions, baptizing 7,000 heathen in 37 years...
...distilled. Drunk with the fumes of politics, she has taken strange men into her house, who are not of her country (two contributors are not undergraduates). They have enslaved her own children, and torn her from the shrine of Polyhymnia, and made her bow down and worship before the heathen image of the Happy Warrior...