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...stoned and left for dead. He spent his ministry, he wrote, "in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness," finding himself "in perils from waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
...picked up the Cross and took it farther than it had been carried before-in the Crusades, with the expansion of the Latin empires in America, finally in the great 19th century advance of Protestant missions, when eager young ministers streamed out of U.S. seminaries, hungry to save the heathen "from Greenland's icy mountains, from India's coral strand." They accomplished mighty works, particularly in hygiene and education; many of today's new African leaders were educated at mission schools...
Paul himself refers to Christianity's most-renowned conversion rather tamely, with the words: "When it pleased God ... to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen." But Acts gives three versions, varying in detail but all including the sudden bright light and the collapse on the road to Damascus, the voice and vision of Jesus saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Blinded, he is led into the city, where a Christian named Ananias, advised by a vision, lays his hands on Paul, "And ... he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized...
Swashbuckling into Guatemala more than 400 years ago with soldiers, priests and instructions to Christianize the heathen, Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado took thoughtful note of the fact that much of the rites of the Mayas' animistic religion resembled Roman Catholicism. The Mayas burned candles and incense, venerated relics, held processions. Alvarado's priests seized on the common ground; they gave the local gods the names of saints, the Virgin and Christ, and pushed on to convert other pagans...
...note on Buddhism which accompanied your article concerning the Dalai Lama. You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest. This is refreshing to see, since an alarming number of Westerners seem to be under the impression that Buddhism is a lot of heathen mumbo jumbo designed to please a golden idol so that he would send the worshiper to heaven...