Word: heathenism
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...began the last lap of his 178-mile, eight-day hike down the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal last week, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wore the air of a missionary savoring a particularly satisfying conversion of the heathen tribes. Some of his 37 original companions (TIME, March 29) had dropped out (only eight walked the whole way with Douglas), and a good many more were physically reduced by blisters, swollen ankles and aching muscles. But along the way, even the Washington Post's Editorial Writers Merlo Pusey (who walked 140 miles) and Robert Estabrook (150 miles) had become...
...philosophers himself and of Christianity. At 26, he was close to becoming a Lutheran. But at the point of accepting baptism, he attended Yom Kippur services and realized the ties that bound him to Judaism. Rejecting Christianity, he wrote: "That connection of the innermost heart with God, which the heathen can only reach through Jesus, is something the Jew already possesses...
...citizens of modern Salem, however, saw newspaper photographs of the sculpture and protested. The nude bronze figure was a far cry from the sunbonneted frontierswoman they had envisioned. Said a Salem housewife: "I would have a difficult time explaining to my young children why we would have a heathen goddess on our courthouse lawn and why she doesn't wear clothes." Result: the committee responsible for the selection withdrew their Venus before she even got to town...
Last week, swinging homeward through Denver and Chicago, the traveling Bostonians began to think that perhaps the heathen west of the mountains were more eager for salvation than the faithful at home. "They just seem to explode with the music, here in the West," said a percussionist after an overflow concert in Provo. Said a clarinetist, thinking of the many times that Southern and Western audiences had given the Bostonians standing ovations: "Back home, they take us so much more for granted...
...untiring, dauntless ministrant to human need-human need of all kinds." The old-fashioned picture of the missionary as a "well-intentioned but rather commonplace preacher, a Bible in one hand and an umbrella in the other, standing under a palm tree exhorting half-naked savages to discard their heathen ways" is as out of date as the daguerreotype. The typical Christian mission today is a center of three or four buildings-a hospital, a school, a church-from which a team of co-workers ("minister, doctor, nurse, school superintendent and teacher, agriculturist, social worker") moves out into the community...