Word: heathens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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an umbrella in the other, standing under a palm tree exhorting half-naked savages to discard their heathen ways" is as out of date as the daguerreotype.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...
...Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa (official title: Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk) bares its teeth indiscriminately at foxtrotting, modern bathing suits and free speech. Along with its two smaller sister communions, it has denounced Christmas celebrations as "heathen rites" and castigated South Africans, especially women, for smoking and drinking. At its last synod the church elders condemned Freemasonry, the equality of the sexes and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights (as defying the "pattern of inequality" which God created...
...Like a Heathen God." They spent much of the evening looking at portraits of Bernard's ancestors. One was "a man with a fat smiley face and a red ribbon . . . My great uncle Ambrose Fudge said Bernard carelessly ... He was really the Sinister son of Queen Victoria. Not really cried Ethel in excited tones but what does that mean. Well I dont quite know said Bernard Clark ... but I mean to find...
...been making hay. After giving Ethel a gay spree at the "Gaierty Hotel," he proposes to her outside Windsor Castle. "If you say no," he warns, "I shall perforce dash my body to the brink of yon muddy river." But Ethel gladly accepts. "You are to me like a Heathen god," she tells Bernard. He kisses her and she falls in a swoon...
Another section of the Dutch Reformed Church formally condemned Christmas trees and Santa Claus as "heathen...