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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

At the death of Bishop Capers in 1855 the Methodists of South Carolina had twenty-six such establishments, which employed thirty-two preachers, ministering to 11,546 communicants of color.

There is no building on this continent with an equal capacity which enables the preacher to speak and the hearers to listen with such perfect comfort.

The thing could not easily be prevented; though I may as well tell you, now, what cannot much longer be kept a secretthe Henlopen will bring a Methodist and a Presbyterian clergyman in her, this voyage, if any be found willing to emigrate; and I have heard, lately, that Friends expect a preacher.

She was a most regular attender, but as regularly fell asleep during sermon, of which fault the preacher had sometimes audible intimation.

She sits at his feet, she flatters him as only a woman can flatter a preacher, and having eventually married him, she helps him to found a new religion during the intervals that she can spare from the foundation of a considerable family.

"What have you done?" "Got a preacher to marry us; on my way now for a license.