Not long thereafter he received permission to serve as an exhorter in the First African Baptist Church of that city, the membership of which, then being about 2,000, required the services of a number of assistant pastors.
Of course, as I was "Exhorter in Charge," though the youngest man, I had to take the morning service.
I refer to Lewis Fowler, an Exhorter of great promise, but who soon after fell under the withering touch of consumption, and passed on to the better land.
Hayward, whose acquaintance, it will be remembered, I made as an Exhorter at Brothertown.
In the course of the conversation I inquired whether the proceeding would not be considered irregular, to place an exhorter in charge of the Mission.
But the time had now come to lay aside the anomalous position of "Exhorter in Charge," and take to myself the appellation of "Preacher in Charge.
He awoke and sat up, just as the exhorter was finishing in a fiery period.
And he shoved the ancientexhorter out of the door.
The exhorter of the morning himself opened proceedings by saying, "Brothahs an' sistahs, de Lawd has opened ouah eyes to wickedness in high places.
As they listened they could hear the voice of the exhorter nearly a mile away.
Grace stood silently beside one of the elders; a woman exhorter stood before her.
Carried away by his own vehemence, the exhorter wept, too.
Then the exhorter said: "Brethren, let me talk to this heinous sinner.
There the sable exhortermight indulge his peculiar talent for "'rousements" and the prayer leader might beseech the Almighty in tones to reach His ears though afar off.
Nat, a slave who by the custom of the country had acquired the surname of his first master, was the foreman of a small plantation, a Baptist exhorter capable of reading the Bible, and a pronounced mystic.
It was the newcomer, the religious fanatic, the exhorter against oppression of the people by usury, the fearless declaimer who named Tasper Britt in diatribe and was setting the folks by the ears.
Still and dark he stood, and neither listened nor heeded: But when the fervent voice of the while-haired exhorter was lifted, Fell his brows in a scowl of fierce and scornful rejection.
A venerable exhorter got the story of the Prodigal Son slightly mixed, but not so as to damage the effect at all.
Illustration: "Elder Hoover was accounted a powerful exhorter in our parts.
Elder Hoover was accounted a powerful exhorter in our parts.
I remember when I was a boy, we used to have a pretty lively camp-meeting every summer, and Elder Hoover, who was accounted a powerful exhorter in our parts, would wrastle with the sinners and the backsliders.
He was speaking to the exhorter and appeared not to have her in sight or mind, although, in fact, her untimely levity ran him through like a dart.
As he came on, the exhorter began to put out an arm, to speak and to rise, but the cub pilot blandly intervened and Julian ignored him.
The exhorter opened his mouth to reply but the words hung in his throat.
Harriet" and the exhorter were already trouble enough.
She saw in the exhorter a tragic as well as comic problem.
Half of it was for the exhorter and half for a newcomer at tardy sight of whom the exhorter paled, certain that he had been overheard.
But the exhorter was too quick for them and "riz" it before the request was fairly uttered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exhorter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
