They also acted as instructors or catechistsof the catechumens of the church.
Chamber in the Catacomb of St. Agnes, with seats for Catechists and Catechumens.
During this period the school and preaching work of the mission was steadily prosecuted by the catechists and missionaries.
During my first years at Benares, one of the catechists of our Mission was a Brahman, who had been baptized by Mr. Ward of Serampore.
In my turn I preached to the native Christian congregation, went with the missionaries and catechists to the city, and engaged in teaching the boys attending our primary schools.
But it would not give way on the question of the placing of its agents; and on the bishop refusing to acquiesce in a divided authority, it declined to present any more of its catechists for ordination.
The first catechistswere town artisans, and so were most of those that followed.
The meeting between himself and his catechists was marked by satisfaction on both sides.
The Society was now coming to the conclusion that lay catechists were undesirable, and it ordered the lieutenant to stay for two years longer in England, and to prepare for Holy Orders.
These two girls married native catechists in course of time.
As the missionaries and catechists increased in number, and fresh stations were added to the church, they opened their arms wider to receive them, until they set apart £3000 a year for Borneo.
Some are now catechists among the Dyak tribes; many entered the service of the Government or the Merchant Company as clerks; some went to Singapore and found employment there.
Two of our old school-boys, now grown up, are catechists there, Semirum and Aloch.
The churches have been rebuilt; priests and catechists are more numerous; the seminary is crowded, and schools and pupils and teachers are at work, as if nothing had happened.
This seemed to be a judicious step, as of all things it appeared to be the most important, to commence preparing young men who might afterwards act as catechists and school teachers among their people.
The natives were asking instruction from their friends, and going eagerly in search of the catechists and of Sattianadem, and even burning their idols and building chapels in preparation for the coming of more fully qualified teachers.
Every morning he assembled his native catechists at early prayer, and appointed them their day's work.
When the soldiers had retired, the catechists came and gathered up all they could find of the body.
His plan was to send on before him two or more catechists to get the work ready; so that when he arrived himself, he might proceed without loss of time.
Three of them advanced to the chapels which he had built in the woods, where they arrested the catechists who were in charge of them.
The same power was possessed even by the catechists and neophytes.
Next day they were taken to the royal city of Ramanadabouram, and there the saint was incarcerated in a filthy hovel, and with him the three catechists who had been arrested in the forest chapels.
We know further that the school of catechists extended its labours to Palestine and Cappadocia as early as the year 200, and, to all appearance, originated or encouraged scientific pursuits there.
We can form an idea of the school of catechists from the 6th Book of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History and from the works of Clement and Origen.
The Alexandrian school of catechists was of inestimable importance for the transformation of the heathen empire into a Christian one, and of Greek philosophy into ecclesiastical philosophy.
In the Alexandrian school of catechists the whole of Greek science was taught and made to serve the purpose of Christian apologetics.
I am not insensible to the intense enthusiasm of the author for the memory of the illiterate catechists who went round the island preaching to the people in a homely and graphic way.
All the men I have read about were fervid Frees, many of them being elders and catechists in that body.
The Missionaries seem to be doing a good work, there being many earnest and faithful laborers among them of both sexes, black and white, and many native catechists and teachers, as well as some few preachers.
Given this better working basis, they secured from the ranks of the Catholics additional catechists and teachers to give a larger number of illiterates the fundamentals of education.
D'Alone gave for the maintenance of the cause a fund, the proceeds of which were first used for the employment of colored catechists, and later for the support of the Thomas Bray Mission after the catechists had failed to give satisfaction.
Some have become Catechists and teachers, and are teaching others to renounce the belief in evil spirits which they at one time taught, and are undoing the evil they did in the past by bringing people to God.
These are the boys who, one hopes, will in after years become teachers and catechists among their own people.
He disclaimed any part in the conversion of the old sailor, that having been brought about by the instrumentality of the two nativecatechists who had preceded him.
The pastors, catechists and other mission agents of his field all look to him for their ideal and seek to draw from him their inspiration in spiritual life.
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