Word: heathenism
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Died. Noah Morgan Mason, 82, longtime Republican Congressman from Illinois' 15th district (Aurora), a deep-dyed conservative who opened his 13-term career in 1936 by denouncing F.D.R.'s court-packing plan, retired in 1962 promising to remain "a missionary to the heathen of Capitol Hill," in between slashing out at the New-Deal, lend-lease, farm-price supports, the U.N., civil rights and foreign aid, while serving on the House committees on Un-American Activities, and Ways and Means; in Joliet...
Wallace attacked Hoff's contention that conditions in the South were a diagrace to the rest of the country, saying that when President Kennedy made it possible to "walk in the shadow of the White House at night without being attacked, then he can come down to heathen Alabama and Mississippi...
...Godly Sermon." Yet the Anglican Communion is more a byproduct of history than a purposeful propagation. Unlike Methodists or Roman Catholics, the clergy of England's post-Reformation church at first followed the empire around the world not primarily to win the heathen for Christ but to provide spiritual solace for the colonial conquerors. One of the earliest recorded appearances of English ways of worship overseas, in August 1578, was on solitary Baffin Island, where one Master Wolfall "preached a godly sermon, which being ended, he celebrated also a Communion upon the land" for the sole benefit of Explorer...
...plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald, was the prisoner of fatal impulsiveness: while revolt flickered along all France's frontiers, Charles took his army off to Italy to help the Pope fight the heathen Saracens, leaving affairs at home in the crafty hands of his bishop, Hincmar of Reims, who showed his contempt for the King in tracts secretly circulated around the palace. "We have not foresaken our King," he wrote. "He has foresaken...
When conscience nagged, slave owners cited the Bible (Leviticus 25:44-"Thy bondmen shall be of the heathen") as justification. But the trade offered the chance of such fantastic commercial gain that few men could resist it. In the 1780s, when a man could live on ?6 a year, the merchants of Liverpool with 87 ships working the African coast netted ?300,000 profit in one twelve-month period...