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...fared well until he reached :he age of 36, and then the wanderlust came upon him, and he wished very dearly to convert the heathen in Frisia*. So he traveled there but was soon expelled by the King Radbod. Three years later the Pope (Gregory II) sent him to Germany converting, baptizing, success in Bavaria and Thuringia, but, hearing of King Radbod's death, he rushed back to Frisia. Three years after he returned to Thuringia and Hesse. He converted so many heathen chieftains and common people that the Pope summoned him to Rome and made him a bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wynfrith and Schulte | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...ardent suffrage worker, a good friend of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Mrs. Stanton used to call her "Heathen Helen" because of her radical views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: A Will | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...high time, says almond-eyed Chu-Chin-Chow, to declare a Monroe Doctrine for China, including "exploitation" along with "colonization" in the text. Perhaps he doesn't like having his affairs regulated by strange, jabbering merchants and ship's cooks. And who shall say him nay? After all, the "heathen Chinee" may be human--who knows?--just like all the other heathen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HEATHEN CHINEE | 6/16/1925 | See Source »

...That's a nice picture of civilization, Christian nations using one part of their money to send missionaries to the Chinese and another part of their money to stimulate the deadly opium traffic, that the heathen may be able to purchase weapons to kill each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: The Week's Doings | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...scientists are pagan and heathen minds trying to eliminate God from the Universe. Unless we are going to accept the teachings of the Bible we must believe that nothing made something out of nothing. And I for one cannot believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRATON PASSES BUCK TO HIS QUESTIONERS | 12/6/1924 | See Source »

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