Word: heathen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prevalent picture of a modern missionary in the mind of the average educated man is the idea of a long-haired individual, with a Bible, standing under a palm tree trying to "convert the heathen." Many people have a strong antagonism to the work of missions, and believe that people in foreign countries are happier without than with the missionary...
...thence to Gallipoli. We see the troops land and watch them fighting in the trenches and in "no-man's land," or trying to rest in their dug-outs. We grow to admire the British Tommy--Scotchman, Irishman, Newfoundlander, Canadian, Anzac or city-bred Londoner; and to respect the heathen Turk, his honest enemy...
...week meetings of the St. Paul's Society)"; but he is indeed hardened who does not experience a genuine shock when he finds Episcopalians and members of "smaller organizations, like the Catholic Club and the Christian Science Society" accorded the position not infrequently assigned to Unitarians and heathen (or, as some prefer to phrase it, "other heathen...
...must come down to the facts of life. Religious service can be carried on in a hundred different ways, and its rightful interpretation should be left to one's conscience. Modern life is essentially rational and men are judged by their achievements and not by catechisms, the only heathen being the selfish, for the test of Christianity is not what we have but what we do with what we have. There is little use in trying to reach an ultimate religious unity when we take into consideration the differences of environment, race and character between one man and another...