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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Unless much inquiry hath deceived me in the nature of the heathen's craftiness," said the stranger, "we shall have breathing-time ere the onset be renewed. The experience of a soldier bids me say, that prudence now urges us to look into the number and position of our foes, that we may order our resistance with better understanding of their force." "In what manner of way may this be done?
Cliff stood staring at him in silent amazement. "I see I have shocked you," said the captain, "but you must remember that that is only a poor heathen's ignorant vagary. Please say nothing about it, especially to Miss Markham." "Say nothing about it!" exclaimed Mrs. Cliff. "I wish I had a thousand tongues to talk of it.
"Had he been virtuous during his whole life," said the monk sternly, "he would be damned just the same because he was a heathen, and original sin was not washed out by baptism." After those words the princess' brows contracted painfully because she recollected that her father whom she loved dearly, had died in the heathen's errors also. "We are listening," said she, after a short silence.
All that troubles me is what'll happen if the old beggar-man 'Lama, lama, my dear sir; and some of them are gentlemen in their own country. 'The lama, then, fails to pay next year. He's a fine business head to plan on the spur of the moment, but he's bound to die some day. An' takin' a heathen's money to give a child a Christian education 'But he said explicitly what he wanted.
But I can manage it for you; and I will, too, if only you will do as I bid you, and if the old Heathen's niece can be induced to be baptized...." "She is a Christian already!" exclaimed Marcus eagerly. "Well then, she can be yours to-morrow," Demetrius went on calmly, "if you listen to the advice of your older and wiser brother.
His wounds had healed; his teeth no longer grinned wildly all the time. The people gathered round him in wonder. He was dying. This was after the white men had come. They sent for a priest. He found the Chenoo as ignorant of all religion as a wild beast. At first he would repel the father in anger. Then he listened and learned the truth. So the old heathen's heart changed; he was deeply moved.
"Beshrew me if I see how I am to hurl yon text in the heathen's teeth, sith we have no common tongue, and they will not stop for parley! A good man, and a gentle, but no soldier, is our governor!"
But I can manage it for you; and I will, too, if only you will do as I bid you, and if the old Heathen's niece can be induced to be baptized...." "She is a Christian already!" exclaimed Marcus eagerly. "Well then, she can be yours to-morrow," Demetrius went on calmly, "if you listen to the advice of your older and wiser brother.
The tired missionary did everything she could to save the old heathen's life. But one dark night he died. Mary was all alone. Mary made a coffin for the chief. She put his body in it. Then she dug a grave. She dragged the coffin to the grave and buried it. Completely tired out she dragged herself back to Akpap. Just at this time Mr. Ovens and another missionary came up from Duke Town.
"It seems to be a heathen's choice to punish himself on earth and avoid it in the hereafter." Behind the women came five men wearing long white robes and carrying unusually long spears. They were followed by the rabble. At length the weird cavalcade, marching straight across the plain, came to a halt not more than a hundred feet from the entrance to the temple.
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