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Example sentences for "evangelize"

Lexicographically close words:
evangelising; evangelism; evangelist; evangelistic; evangelization; evangelized; evangelizing; evanish; evanishing; evaporate
  1. Canada, however, was restored to its original owners in 1632, and Le Jeune and Daniel, soon to be followed by Brebeuf and many others, made their way to the Huron country to evangelize the savages.

  2. To be a Pariah was easy, and attempts to evangelize that class continued to be made in Madura up to the time of the Suppression.

  3. While he was Bishop of Boston, Fenwick made a pious pilgrimage to Quebec; the city from which the Jesuits of the old Society had started on their perilous journeys to evangelize the Indians of the continent.

  4. They asked the Chilian government to let them evangelize the fierce Araucanian savages, but this was refused.

  5. Philip II had asked for missionaries to evangelize Peru, and hence at the end of March, 1568, Portillo and seven Jesuits landed at Callao, and proceeding to Lima established a church and college there on a magnificent scale.

  6. The Ten'a Indians and Esquimaux are the only natives whom the missionaries have been able to evangelize thus far.

  7. Thus, as early as 1612, Father Szgoda had allowed himself to be taken by the Tatars to the Crimea, so as to evangelize the Cossacks.

  8. When John III of Portugal asked for missionaries to evangelize the colonies which the discoveries of Da Gama and others had won for the crown in the far east, Bobadilla, Rodriguez and Xavier were assigned to the work.

  9. In 1567 Philip II asked for twenty Jesuits to evangelize Peru.

  10. He demands from the king not only free opportunity for Christian preachers to evangelize the Borneans, but also the cessation of any further Mahometan propaganda by Borneans among the Filipinos.

  11. Returning from Italy in 1206, he and the bishop of Osma laid aside pomp and comforts to evangelize according to primitive Christianity.

  12. To have instructed the respectable poor--to have removed the difficulties of men in error, would have been a pleasure; but to evangelize such a people as the dwellers in Paradise Court and its surroundings seemed hopeless.

  13. The truthfulness and simplicity of the narrative has no doubt promoted this result, but the secret of its success is not in the book itself, but in the deep interest taken by Christians generally in effort to evangelize the people of London.

  14. But--the objector asks--how shall we evangelize Africa?

  15. Again, how is it that none but the free people of color have been chosen to evangelize Africa?

  16. And this is the mode of colonizationists to evangelize Africa!

  17. This morning, Brother Spyke was ready to do battle with the whole heathen world, to drag it up into light, to evangelize it.

  18. Seek not to evangelize the Mahomedan world until you have worked a reform here; and when you have done it, a monument in heaven will be your reward.

  19. If Sister Slocum, too, would evangelize the world-if she would give the light of heaven to the benighted, she must employ willing hearts and strong hands.

  20. When the first missionary to that country—a Dominican friar—landed there in 1596, he found a great cross on that unknown shore, which seemed to prefigure what awaited those who should attempt to evangelize it.

  21. Meanwhile he went forth to evangelize and before the next meeting of the association he had won so many converts and organized so many new churches "on the Bible alone" that the charges had to be dropped.

  22. It is rich in facts and incidents, and especially valuable as an authority on the missionary activity of the time, and on the attempt made by the clergy to evangelize the savages.

  23. The Recollects had thus undertaken to evangelize two races, who, with their kindred, extended from the ocean to the Mississippi, from the Chesapeake and Ohio to the frozen lands of the Esquimaux.

  24. When England reluctantly yielded up her Canadian conquest, the all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu seems to have looked with no kindly eye on either of the bodies who had already labored to evangelize New France.

  25. This bull contains divers authorizations in favor of the Brothers who are going to evangelize Morocco.

  26. He seems to have made only a brief halt there, and to have set forth again almost immediately to evangelize Southern Umbria.

  27. The aim of Francis at that time, however, was not to evangelize Italy; his friars were already scattered over it in great numbers; and he desired rather to gain them access to new countries.

  28. He found difficulty in coming down this region, but our missionaries sent out to evangelize this country found their difficulty in going up.

  29. Soon afterwards others were sent to evangelize the natives, but war breaking out the work was entirely relinquished.

  30. I would go forth, methought, at once, and evangelize the whole of Flatland.

  31. I must be sentenced to perpetual imprisonment; but if the Truth intended that I should emerge from prison and evangelize the world, the Truth might be trusted to bring that result to pass.

  32. When in 1206 Bishop Diego dismissed his retinue and remained to evangelize the land, Dominic alone was retained; when Diego returned to Spain to die, Dominic remained behind and continued to make Languedoc the scene of his activity.

  33. Then Francis announced that the time had come for them to evangelize the world, and dispersed them in pairs to the four points of the compass.

  34. Defn: To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world.

  35. His apostles whom he sends To evangelize the nations.

  36. The Philips of our day can evangelize the rough charioteer by means of the written word as easily as they can his cultured master.

  37. Thus ended his first effort to evangelize Geneva.

  38. But some are saying that the Boxer outbreak has destroyed their confidence in the practicability of the effort to evangelize the Chinese.

  39. To get behind diplomatic guaranties in order to evangelize the nations is to mistake the sword for the Spirit, to rely on the arm of flesh and put aside the help of the Almighty.

  40. They do not, as officials, feel that the salvation of men from sin and the command of Christ to evangelize all nations are within their sphere.

  41. An inscription at Pagan records that in 1285 Khubilai's troops were accompanied by monks sent to evangelize Burma.

  42. The Brahmans have always been willing to follow and supervise the progress of Hindu civilization, but they have never shown any disposition to evangelize foreign countries apart from Hindu settlements in them.

  43. Yet to any other man the vocation to evangelize it all must have been bewildering and even paralyzing.

  44. Among the missionaries who volunteered to evangelize California were Fathers Francisco Paloú, Francisco de Lasuén and Juan Crespí.

  45. Since then we hear of no more attempts to evangelize the pagan world.

  46. Protestantism and the Alien [Sidenote: Present Work for the Foreigners] How are the evangelical denominations meeting their imperative obligation to evangelize the multitudes brought to their very doors?

  47. Sidenote: An Ingenious Italian Expedient] Is this a hopeful work, this effort to evangelize the foreigners?


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evangelize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    convince; persuade; preach; wean