Word: heathens
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...when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking [Matthew...
...Heathen Rites. Last week there were signs that her neighbors were beginning to understand how badly they had let the side down. When the council threatened to evict the families who refused to pay their rent, all 96 of the defaulters capitulated. "Everyone says the Mohammeds are clean," mused a tenant, "and we all know some whites are dirty." "It would be horrid not to say good morning," blurted her friend...
...Anglican vicar of St. Michael's and All Angels Church lamented in his parish magazine that a building which had long been used for Christian worship was now "being renovated, decorated and adapted as a temple for black people to preach what we have always spoken of as heathen rites...
...sent a constant stream of reports and papers to learned societies back home, and at 26, he had made enough of an impression to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Thus he began his life task, which was, as he saw it, to "convert the Christian Heathen of these islands to the true faith," i.e., science...
...Jerusalem. Whatever his arguments were, Paul represents them as completely victorious. When James, Peter and John (who, says Paul disparagingly, "seemed to be pillars") "perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision...