15 Metaphors for deacons

A deacon is the lowest kind of Christian.

" By this remark, which savours very strongly of a species of censure that is much in fashion in the coteries of that Great Emporium, which it is the taste and pleasure of its people to term a commercial emporium, especially among elderly ladies, the reader will at once perceive that the deacon was a federalist, which was somewhat of a novelty in Suffolk, thirty years since.

In his early manhood the deacon was no deacon by a great deal.

" The deacon was a man of peace, For so he claimed, albeit When there was war among the beasts, He always liked to see it.

But the girl and the squire had lived happily ever after and the deacon, being a philosopher, might have forgotten the squire's superiority had it been manifested in this one regard only.

Soon after he arrived a new black gown was presented to him, and if one of the local papers which recorded the event at the time tells the truth, he had it donned in the vestry, after which there was a procession round the church, Mr. Briggs leading the way, whilst the deacons, including some mythological "Mr. Clinkscales"that was the name givenand others brought up the rear.

The deacon was cluss (Anglice, close); yes, he was clussall the Pratts are a little given to be cluss; but I don't know that they are any the worse for it.

Deacon was awful grouty.

Deacon was the stroke of the second varsity, an outfit which in aquatics bears the same relation to a university eight as the scrub team does to a varsity football eleven.

A deacon was an officer to take care of the poor, not to preach.

"Had the deacon been a woman, I dare say, Betsy, you would not have thought so much of his visits.

But the Deacon was a genius in his way.

The good Deacon, who had lost interest in life and faith in men while tutoring a young Swedish Count, and who was made over by his new work among the solid middle class of Westphalia, is a character of real charm; his ideals are humanitarian in the best sense, his wisdom is sound, his help generous.

It need scarcely be added that when this pious and witty deacon became pope he remembered these Saxon slaves, and sent Augustin (or Austin,not to be confounded with Augustine of Hippo, who lived nearly two centuries earlier), with forty monks as missionaries to convert the pagan Saxons.

Quo' Deacon, 'Let the toast round gang; Come, here's our noble sels Weel met the day.'

15 Metaphors for  deacons