Word: heathenism
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...pickle factory. Those citizens who still feel some continuity with the South of Washington, Jefferson and Lee will doubtless now begin to see the light. The rebel yell will be given for the prophet of Baltimore, who is so kind as to lead the backward Confederacy out of its heathen darkness. That great soul, however, should be careful not to carry the reform too far. When he has destroyed the prejudices of the South, and replaced every copy of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with a copy of Prejudices, by H. L. Mencken, where will he find victims...
...Bishop of Salisbury: "The Chinese object not to the foreigner's religion but to the foreigner's commercial invasion and exploitation. . . . How can Christians believe in incarnation and not want the uttermost heathen to hear about...
...upset the Chinese apple cart, last week, was the sudden appearance from the North of some 36,000 troops under the redoubtable "Chinese Cromwell" Feng Yu-hsiang. Feng was driven into the Mongolian fastness last spring. Nominally he is the friend of the Cantonese, but the ways of the "heathen Chinee" are no more "peculiar" than those of General Feng who is a Christian according to his lights...
...lepers, upon whose still and mocking face broods the strange gaiety of holiness. St. Martin, among the holy men, rides on a white horse. He is a strange figure, with his sword and black armor in the company of the saints. He was in life a captain. Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give up the thought of serving God and made him enlist in the army of France. One day, quartered at Amiens, he met a naked beggar on the road and divided his cloak with him, immediately...
...tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...