There was no sacrament, consequently no priest to administer it; Islâm has always been the lay religion par excellence.

Tell me, should he not agree to be my husband?" "Jean," said the old priest gravely, "marry her.

The fur tradethe source of Canadian prosperityand the zeal of priests eager for the conversion of the heathen, which sent the traders, the coureurs de bois, and the priests from tribe to tribe and from the Atlantic halfway to the Pacific, did not appeal to the English colonists.

Meditatively the Priest threw aside his cape and began unfastening the safety-pins that held up his cassock.

The demoniacs were usually in collusion with the priests, willy-nilly.

Playing on his name, Teodoro, in their dialect, they called him, O prevete d'oro''the priest of gold.'

At the appointed hour the children defiled down the long room, then came the other guests, and finally Sir Julian Pomphrey in his robe of officeFather Pomphrey, so elegant, loving, good; a princely priest.

A renowned priest of the seventeenth century satirically observed"Talk as he may, a samurai who ne'er has died is apt in decisive moments to flee or hide."

"I gave orders to a squad to shoot our prisoners, but a deadly bullet finished the career of the lying, scoundrelly priest as he was trying to escape.

" "I assure you," said the French priest solemnly, "that the thesis is his own selection.

"When I began to reign," said Alfred, "I cannot remember one priest south of the Thames who could render his service-book into English."

Next in the line is a smooth-faced portly man, clad in fine broadcloth, unmistakably a Catholic Priest; next is a man of soldierly bearing whose uniform and shoulder-straps proclaim him to be the commander of the national guard of the State; close beside the guardsman is the stalwart superintendent of the city police.

I shall only add, that though this writer, when he speaks of priests, desires chiefly to be understood to mean the English clergy, yet he includes all priests whatsoever, except the ancient and modern heathens, the Turks, Quakers, and Socinians.

The Magithe priests of the Iraniansdiffered widely in their religious views from the Brahmans, inculcating a higher morality and a loftier theological creed, worshipping the Supreme Being without temples or shrines or images, although their religion ultimately degenerated into a worship of the powers of Nature, as the recognition of Mithra the sun-god and the mysterious fire-altars would seem to indicate.