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Usage examples of preachers.

And to come down to the truly Pauline succession of ministers in our own lands and in our own churches, what preachers and what pastors Christ gave to Kidderminster, and to Bedford, and to Down and Connor, and to Sodor and Man, and to Anwoth, and to Ettrick, and to New England, and to St.

Danny stood with his hat respectfully in his hands and waited to be bypassed if the preacher was polite, and he thought this one with the pretty blue church was far nicer than preachers down on the plains.

They would not long remain great preachers, and you would soon cease to pay any attention to them, if they were always in the pulpit.

And, first as divinity students, and then as pastors and preachers, we who are ministers have advantages and opportunities in this respect quite peculiar and private to ourselves.

John Bunyan, after Joel, has told us some things about the Fast-day preaching of his day that it will be well for us, both preachers and people, to begin with, and to lay well to heart.

And, no doubt, when we get back our Fast-days, we shall leave more of the time to reading pertinent books at home and to secret fasting and to secret prayer, and shall enjoin our preachers, while they are pertinent and authoritative in their sermons, not to take up the whole day with their sermons even at their best.

On one side a rude platform was erected to accommodate the preachers, fifteen of whom attended this meeting, and with very short intervals for necessary refreshment and private devotion, preached in rotation, day and night, from Tuesday to Saturday.

The preachers came down from their stand and placed themselves in the midst of it, beginning to sing a hymn, calling upon the penitents to come forth.

The preachers moved about among them, at once exciting and soothing their agonies.

But now, the preachers yell at them, fire and brimstone and give us money.

I want you to think of something very smart, to make the Reverend Lester Gull and his phony preachers go away.

It is, coupled with the threat of damnation in the nether regions of the devil as a punishment for sinful acts, that is being emphasized forcefully by well-meaning preachers to their congregations through hell for leather bible-thumping sermons.

The good preachers, that served the faith, told them of the wonderous work of the mighty Lordy.

Then the itinerant preachers told the believers of the devil or Satan, the emmissary of all evil, who remains the greatest enemy of man - suggesting and tempting the fallen to evil deeds.