Word: heathenism
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...topic was to be common with the Anglican Bishops at Lambeth* and the Congregationalists at Bournemouth, 107 miles away: church union in India. The handicap of Christian missionaries in India as well as elsewhere is that the heathen cannot understand the competition between Christian denominations. In India there are now a South India United Church (formed by Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed converts), a Wesleyan Methodist Church of South India, an Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of India, Burma & Ceylon. The hope of these three Christian churches in India merging soon is good, because their vested interests are neither old nor extensive, because...
Real Wages. "Economic research and social work are as characteristic of Western civilization as Ford cars, chain stores, radio sets, talking pictures, and tabloid papers with screaming headlines. Social workers seem more like engineers planning to reclaim a swamp than zealots trying to convert the heathen."?Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, director of research at the National Bureau of Economic Re-search and chairman of President Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends. He observed that the record of earnings for the 19th and 20th Centuries in England and the U. S. has been one of alternating gains and losses...
...occupation of Sholapur, their tearing down of the Indian flag wherever flown, their hoisting of the Union Jack. Stay at home subjects of George V know that, given an occasional whiskey soda and a tough platoon or two, "Sir Freddy" Sykes fears his own Jehovah but no heathen God. man or devil, commands boundless loyalty from the British tommies in that glamorous, sternly romantic force "His Majesty's army in India." The Times of India, an anti Gandhi, pro British paper published at Bombay, sent to Sholapur respected President Hirachand of the Maharasthra Chamber of Commerce. What he reported...
...well imagine the task of Mr. David Starr Jordan among the heathen was not an easy...
...Heathen, ridden by Frank Coltiletti who, because his mount was whip-shy, urged him down the straightaway and under the wire with wild yells and cowboy whoops; the $10,000 Harford Handicap at Havre De Grace...