The pages of all history shine With poets, heathen and divine; Whose numbers are so highly priz'd, Their memories are immortaliz'd.
Even now, when the Church is making some effort to enlighten this depraved and almost heathen population, it is not the Tories of Dudley who support its efforts, nor the Tories of Dudley who promote its usefulness.
She no prayer of love can say, Heathen mothers will not pray.
Illustration] See that heathen mother stand Where the sacred currents flow, With her own maternal hand, Mid the waves her infant throw.
If ever I should become greatly interested in missions it would be because I should feel that Christianity could solve the spiritual problem for the heathen better than anything else.
The fact is, the rate of progress is far greater in the Catholic country than it is in the heathen land.
It is often claimed that the progress of the gospel is slower and more difficult in Catholic countries than in outright heathen lands.
I place the main emphasis on how gloriously Christianity, through the efforts of the missionary, meets the aching spiritual hunger of the heathenheart and transforms his life into spiritual efficiency.
Bible: "Although the deities of the heathen have no positive existence, they are often described in Scripture as if they had, and are represented as bowing down before the majesty of Jehovah.
Neither the Hindu Shasters nor anyheathen cosmogony can bear such comparison with the results of science.
Even the heathen could say "Fiat justitia, ruat coelum," or "pereat mundus.
Christ was to them a hero-god, a demigod, and the later Goths could worship Christ and heathen idols impartially.
The truth is that by the doctrine of the Trinity Christianity secured itself against false heathen ideas of God's multiplicity and immanence, as well as against false Jewish ideas of God's unity and transcendence.
Gwatkin, Studies of Arianism: "The Arian Christ is nothing but a heathen idol, invented to maintain a heathenish Supreme in heathen isolation from the world.
The continued corruption of heathen lands shows that this change is not due to any laws of merely natural progress.
The gropings of the heathen religions after a trinity in God, together with their inability to construct a consistent scheme of it, are evidence of a rational want in human nature which only the Christian doctrine is able to supply.
The superficiality of heathen morals is well illustrated by the treatment of the corpse of a priest in Siam: the body is covered with gold leaf, and then is left to rot and shine.
In contrast with the Christian system of morality the defects of heathensystems are so marked and fundamental, that they constitute a strong corroborative evidence of the divine origin of the Scripture revelation.
Alexander McLaren: "The heathen have many gods because they have no one that satisfies hungry hearts or corresponds to their unconscious ideals.
The writer seemed to pride himself on his heathen stoicism--heathen expressions of resignation were alone mentioned.
I gladly accepted his offer, and have ever since been a humble, though I feel sure not an inefficient, labourer in making known the good tidings of great joy among the almost heathen population of our own land, as a colporteur.
A desperate battle with the heathen followed; for awhile the enemy's numbers triumphed, but not for long.
Fighting had ceased for awhile, for the heathen had been sore smitten; and since his men had neither eaten nor slept for many long hours, the Emperor must needs let them rest until dawn.
Coga, giving an Account of the Religion, Rites, Notions, Customs, Manners of the Heathen Priests commonly called Bramines.
But, you know, Mr. Singleton, Alice and I never can agree as to just what a heathen is.
That he will set his king upon his holy hill in Zion, that he will give him the heathenfor his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession.
There are heathen nations enveloped in idolatry; and if millions of people came into the world in those places surrounded with idolatry and superstition, it would be unjust for them to be punished for what they did not know.
So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
And the heathen in the rice-fields stopped to gaze at the strange sight, and the mountains gave back the echo of that Name which is above every name.
Was it well that he should wear out that splendid life in such desperate toil among heathen that hated and reviled him?
The heathen temple was dedicated to the worship of the true God by singing the old but always new, one hundredth Psalm.
A silence fell over the muttering crowd, and an old heathen whose cue was white and whose aged hands trembled on the top of his staff, nodded his head and said, "That is heavenly doctrine.
And then they turned toward the heathen temple and delivered it over to Kai Bok-su for a chapel in which he and his students might preach the gospel.
There was instantly a commotion among the heathen who were in the house, and yells and jeers from those crowding about the door outside.
To the missionary it was the Gibraltar of heathen Formosa, and he longed to storm it.
He who had so often stood up fearless and bold before a raging heathen mob, now faltered before this sea of eager faces, upturned to him.
But every one did know that wherever he went, Christians grew stronger and heathen gave up their idols.
But what a cheer his heart received when he found that persecution had strengthened the converts that were left and everywhere the heathen marveled that men should die for the faith the barbarian missionary had taught.
Heathen though they were, they knew Kai Bok-su's promise would not be broken, and away they went quite satisfied.
They were weary of their heathen rites and superstitions.
They were all poor, wrinkled, toothless old folk with faces seamed by years of hard heathen experience.
You're not in New York now, but in a heathen town, a town where the life of a foreign devil is not worth a grain of rice.
We're off in a heathen land, surrounded by enemies, and not likely to get anything like a fighting chance, but I'm for doing something right now.
It would be supremely foolish to object to the burning of the dead on the score of its being completely a heathen practice, and as if burial in the ground was not at one time open to the same objection.
It has been urged that the practice of burning the dead had its origin in a heathen religion, but it is not wise to accept the imputation.
The Christians interred in the same places as the heathens, and even painted and engraved upon the catacombs representations of the heathengods and goddesses.
In a heathen land the three things that are supposed to be the pillars of moderately decent government are regard for human life, justice, criminal and civil, as far as it lies in man to do justice, and good roads.
The 'heathen in his blindness' would have made arrangements with the Genius of the Place before he ever drove a pick there.
His transformation is analogous to the process by which heathen deities, especially in the Eastern Church, have been accepted as Christian saints[723].
The practice of arranging the congregation in seats for which they pay seems to me more irreligious than the slovenliness of the heathen and makes the whole performance resemble a very dull concert.
The heathen amongst whom I dwelt were, it appears, Nature's gentlefolk, hating unreality and humbug as they hated the devil.
Into many a heathen household has it already carried the blessed light of the gospel--to many a burdened heart has it come to lighten the load of poverty and care.
Heathen and Christian alike are not so susceptible to spiritual influences as you, Medoline; so in harmony with the unseen and unknowable as you are getting to be.
I think a heathen would have felt some before unknown spiritual influence there to-night, if he had understood our language," I exclaimed.
The tall, turbanned, heathen Hindoo Is proud to be in the game too, For the joy of his life, Is to help in the strife Of the sahibs, and see the war through.
They seize the heathen nations' land, And hold it by the sword, And deem themselves a righteous band.
St. Paul condemns the Corinthians because they gave scandal by reason of their lawsuits beforeheathen tribunals and had recourse to frauds and injuries in their litigation (I Cor.
Thus, Eleazar would not eat lawful meat which was put before him in order that he might pretend to eat the meat of sacrifice after the manner of the heathen (II Mach.
Christians, who, to protect themselves in time of persecution, obtained by bribery or otherwise a forged or genuine magistrate's certificate that they had sacrificed to the heathen gods).
He also cautions them against long prayers--"use not vain repetitions as the heathen do" (Matt.
The spirit of Christian missions to heathen lands and the organizations to carry them forward commenced, in most Protestant lands, within the last century.
And so the result has been, in multitudes of cases, that children were born only to be sent from parents to be trained by strangers, and the true "Christian family" could not be exhibited in heathen lands.
They gave up the comforts and refinements of a civilized country, and came as pilgrims to a hard soil, a cold clime, and a heathen shore.
Even the two Chinamen, mysteriously coming and going, had laughed at him like two heathen gods, and had vanished suddenly like heathen gods.
One who has since become a missionary in a distantheathen land, poured out here for these American heathen some of the best years of her youth in the most enthusiastic and constant labors.
Week by week patient kindness and the truths of Christianity began to have their effect on these wild little heathen of the street.
The queen-mother, one of the most important personages in an Eastern state, was herself devoted toheathen observances.
Other kings, like Manasseh, built high places and followed after the abominations of the heathen whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.
But although the Temple services might still be performed, the king was mainly interested in introducing and observing a variety of heathen rites.
Asa's lapse into wickedness began by plundering the Temple treasury to purchase an alliance with a heathen king, the king of Syria, against whose successor Ahaz in his turn hired the king of Assyria.
In the parallel text of this passage in the apocryphal book of Esdras Pharaoh's remonstrance is given in a somewhat expanded form; but the editor of Esdras shrank from making the heathen king the mouthpiece of Jehovah.
The other prophet of this reign is the heathen king Pharaoh Necho, through whose mouth the Divine warning is given to Josiah.
Indeed, this one sin implied and involved all others; the man who suppressed the worship of Jehovah, and revelled in the obscene superstitions of heathen cults, was obviously capable of any enormity.
The work of purification and restoration, however, was still incomplete: the Temple had been cleansed from the pollutions of idolatry, the heathenaltars had been removed from Jerusalem, but the high places remained in all the cities of Judah.
The Church subdued the barbarians who had overwhelmed the empire, and the heathen Saxons adopted at last the religion of the conquered Britons.
The chronicler would not wish to perplex his readers with the problem, How could the high-priest, whom Isaiah trusted as a faithful witness, become the agent of a wicked king, and construct an altar for Jehovah after a heathen pattern?
This last misfortune was averted by the energy and courage of Jehoiada, but in the meantime the half-heathen queen had succeeded in causing untold harm and suffering to her adopted country.
Like the great prophets in similar instances, he regards the heathen king as charged with a Divine commission.
