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The priest expressed his approval, but ventured to remark: 'I think there ought to be a cluster of more delicate foliage up above. 'No doubt, grumbled La Teuse. 'But they only bring me laurel and rosemary I should like to know who has brought an olive branch. Not one, you bet! They are afraid of losing a single olive, the heathens!
The Latins would not agree to this, and kept both images and pictures; and thus began a feeling of distrust between the two branches. The great Frank king, Charles le Magne, grandson of Charles Martel, was a very religious man, and did a great deal to convert the heathens in Germany, and spread the power of the Church.
Nay, not of Edom only; but it shall be more tolerable for Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for the unbelieving cities of Israel. So it is, not only with the literal, but with the Christian Israel; so it is, not only with the Church as a whole compared with heathens, but with all those individuals amongst us, who enjoy in any larger measure than others any of God's blessings.
But now, when our eyes were opened, could we tolerate them for a moment, unless we were ready at once to determine, that gain should be our god, and, like the heathens of old, were prepared to offer up human victims at the shrine of our idolatry?
These are a very comely Sort of Indians, there being a strange Difference in the Proportion and Beauty of these Heathens.
The people who worship idols, animals, or other things of that kind as gods are called pagans, idolaters, or heathens. The Israelites, who worshipped the true God and offered Him sacrifices because He made known to them by revelation that they should do so, had four kinds of sacrifice.
At all events, at present he was willing to risk everything in order to attain that. He was determined to see that god of the heathens, not as he had seen him once in the house of Messer Neri Altoviti, cut out of marble, but alive, moving, speaking; for that was the god. The god was a devil.
Who would have thought, but that the Pharisee had been a good man, for he was righteous; for he prayed. And who could have thought, that the other had been a good man? For he was a Publican: A man, by good men, and bad men, joined with the worst of men, to wit, with sinners, harlots, heathens. The Pharisee was a sectarian; the Publican was an officer.
Then you shall veil and come into the garden with me; but whereas you shall come in as the Madonna of these heathens, you shall leave, per Dio, as Silvestro, who murdered the Jew in the Via della Gatta and has to hide in the hills. Do you remember him, Ippolita?" "Of course I do," said Ippolita. "Have I killed that Jew, Annina?" "It is to be understood, my dear.
If you wish to impress the Chinese with the value of your religion, of what you are pleased to call "the American system," show them that Christians are better than heathens. Prove to them that what you are pleased to call the "living God" teaches higher and holier things, a grander and purer code of morals, than can be found upon pagan pages.
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