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...scurried for the shelter of a haystack. There, while the rain droned on, they earnestly discussed three topics: religion, Asia, and their future. Before the storm ended on that summer day in 1806, they had decided to dedicate themselves to the work of bringing the Gospel "to a barricaded heathendom" in foreign lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity in Asia | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...nearly two thousand years the Roman Catholic Church has waged an unending spiritual war. Against heathendom, against heresy, the Church has not ceased from moral strife. Last week, when its Princes met in Rome to choose a new Pope, the Church's war against heresy-the totalitarian heresies of Left and Right -had reached a critical point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Habemus Papam | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...flock by suspending temporarily the "non-Aryan clause," but non-Nazi pastors rallied 3,000 strong to denounce the Nazi "German Christians." Risking reprisals from Nazi Storm Troopers, they read out from 3,000 pulpits throughout the Reich a stinging protest directed, by implication, at the Nazi State itself. "Heathendom has penetrated into the bosom of our church," they read. "Many Christians have to submit their consciences to human leaders, in contradiction of the essence of the Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: New Heathenism | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...spite of his (assumed) name, Author "R. Hernekin Baptist's" good words are all for heathendom. But he regards heathen nature (especially female) with a civilized and curious eye, makes much of natural facts not usually dwelt upon so lovingly. Publishers Cape & Smith will not divulge Author "Baptist's" real name but they admit he is English, assert he is "very famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat's-Paws | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...because he felt that priesthood would limit his influence.* Almost at once he stepped into a world business - Foreign Missions. Most of his life has been spent as one of the two or three executives of Presbyterian Foreign Missions. His business has led him into almost every country of heathendom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Robert E. Speer | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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