He even goes to Brooklyn to hear Torchlight preach."

The heads of houses, the doctors, the masters of art, the bachelors, the undergraduates, the townsmen, all crowded to hear the venerable preacher.

They sent us the old gray preachers worn out in other fields.

In 1748, after a four years' absence in North America, Whitefield returned to England, and at her request Howel Harris, the famous Welsh evangelist, brought the great preacher to Lady Huntingdon's house in Chelsea.

WORK; Cotton-picking; Mothers of slaves; Presbyterian minister killed his slave; Methodist colored preacher hung; Licentiousness; Slave-traffic; Night in a Slaveholder's house; Twelve slaves murdered; Slave driving Baptist preachers; Hunting of runaways slaves; Amalgamation.

No, no, Denbigh; a soldier is bad enough, without having a preacher.

Got my first interest in Mexico and the Mexicans when my daughter married a young Methodist preacher and they went down there as missionaries.

Most of the guests had met the new preacher; but none of themsave one or two of her intimate friendscould know how the lonely little old woman was faring in the cottage whence one by one her adopted birds had flown.

I have seen many wooden preachers,never one like this.

He is a monk still, but the monk is merged in the learned doctor and eloquent preacher.

Nevertheless, Antioch was not great enough to hold such a preacher as Chrysostom.

While estimating literary and theological learning at a very high value, the aim has always been first and foremost to train earnest spiritual evangelistic preachers.

So he used to argue, with three-fourths of mankind, mingling truth and falsehood: and would, on these grounds, have done his best to turn the dissenting preacher out of that house, had he found him in it.

He compelled the old preacher to swallow the brandy; and then told him to preach and exhort, for the spirit was in him.

But the boy, Abraham, remembered a traveling preacher, whom they had known in Kentucky.

From General Conferences to circuit preachers; and from General Assemblies to church sessions, abuses of power spring up as weeds from the dunghill.

Finally Billy remarked: "I will find the preacher and ask his advice," and without further words he started to Washington Square, where his newly-found friend lived.

Well does her son call her "in her measure and degree a preacher of righteousness.

It is not wonderful that teaching of this sort should seem to many unendurable, and that the multitude should desert the preacher with the cry, "This is an hard saying; who can hear it?"

But vainly should detraction preach If once I made it known, The art of pleasing thou would'st teach Acknowledg'd for thy own.

He dident preach "Rest for the weary" without practisin what he preached, by makin his weary congregation rest like kittens.

He had not proceeded far, however, when he ran full tilt against a man in a black garb, who, gazing at him, at once shouted out at the top of his voice, "Seize this man, he is a malignant and a spy," and to his horror Harry discovered the small preacher with whom he had twice already been at loggerheads, and who, it seems, had been dispatched as a member of a previous commission by his party in London.

In a letter dated February 19, 1825, of Mary Russell Mitford, who looked upon Irving as quack absolute, we find her discussing the preacher with Charles Lamb.] LETTER 367 CHARLES LAMB TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON

"But in the present mood of the army, I believe that half of them would march away if the general dismissed the preachers.

The Presbyterian church remained the most prominent as regards the wealth and social standing of its adherents, but the typical frontiersman who professed religion at all became either a Methodist or a Baptist, adopting a creed which was intensely democratic and individualistic, which made nothing of social distinctions, which distrusted educated preachers, and worked under a republican form of ecclesiastical government.