68 Verbs to Use for the Word preaching

He even goes to Brooklyn to hear Torchlight preach."

There was a certain monk, however, probably an Irishman, who had a small monastery at Bosham encompassed by the sea and the woods, and in it were five or six brethren who served God in poverty and humility; but none of the natives cared either to follow their course of life or to hear their preaching.

Little Harry did not like the preaching; he liked better the fine stories which aunt used to tell him.

The men were mostly countryfolk, culled, as I could tell by their speech, from the west country, whose only fault, no doubt, was that they had attended some field-preaching.

If you'd only come and live i' this country you might get married to some decent man, and there'd be plenty ready to have you, if you'd only leave off that preaching, as is ten times worse than anything your Aunt Judith ever did.

The spot where he stood is still marked by the impress of his feet, which the pious natives of a later day took pride in pointing out as a convincing proof that their ancestors received and remembered the preachings of St. Thomas.

'People took your kinsman's preachings very unkindly,' he continued; 'the more so when the Plague he prophesied of began to show itself; then he was called a sorcerer; and to make a long story short, he was taken up for a pestilent mad Quaker, and clapt into gaol.

Mr. Cleaveland (Rev. John) preached his farewell sermon to the First Presbyterian Church, Detroit, from Jonah iii. 2: "Arise and go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee."

The words seemed to carry his own preaching to its rightful conclusion; but now how changed was his world!a whirling, sickening chaos of sin and remorse.

JONES, BOB. How to improve your preaching.

" But not to be precipitate in commending the apostle's preaching.

Humanly speaking, we should declare it to be for His glory to commit the preaching of His gospel to the best and wisest hands.

I shall now look on them as beneficed, and consider their preaching.

But are there not, especially in these days of cheap printing, books of devotion, tracts, sermons, printed, which contain better preaching than any which they are likely to hear in church?

I am like the two former, because I dare even to ask a sign and to seek after wisdom; but to be like the latter is what I covet most sincerelyto preach Christ crucified, not only in words, but in life and conversation.

Mr. O went on to condemn and utterly denounce all the preaching and teaching and moral instruction upon religious subjects, which people in the south, pressed upon by northern opinion, are endeavouring to give their slaves.

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.

They dig up pits for their neighbours, and fall themselves into the destruction which they have made for others; not knowing that it is as true now as it was two thousand years ago, that God is for ever saying to the ungodly, "Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth; whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?

Many of our most eminent fore-fathers amongst the Puritans, followed that practice; and if that were but attended to now, there would not only be enough to support the ministry of the gospel at home, and to encourage village preaching in our respective neighbourhoods, but to defray the expences of carrying the gospel into the heathen world.

" The determination to exclude preaching that is not strictly according to our own forms seems to me quite inconsistent with the general teaching of Scripture, more particularly with this apostolic declaration.

Now I'm sure you have a mind to me; when a woman once falls a preaching, the next thing is ever use and application.

When his mother died, I thought that any death were easier to bear than the sudden and terrible tragedy of that; but in the devastated youth and the lingering pain of Russie's leaving, I found that "not all the preaching since Adam Has made Death other than Death.

And it was not until Florence itself was threatened with an interdict for shielding such a man, that the magistrates of the city were compelled to forbid his preaching.

Daniel Deronda gives us the gospel of altruism, a new preaching of love to man.

68 Verbs to Use for the Word  preaching