The twoexhorters were told to take their choice between silence and the station-house.
Devoe, Mr. Willoughby and some others went to the large group of which old Hannah and two great burly exhorterswere the inspiration.
Seven lay exhorters were also at the meetings; they were questioned as to their spiritual experience and allotted their several spheres; other matters pertaining to the new conditions created by the revival were arranged.
Exhorters were divided into two classes--public, who were allowed to itinerate as preachers and superintend a number of societies; private, who were confined to the charge of one or two societies.
Ashmun related that about six out of every ten emigrants were illiterate and that just one pious individual assisted by two or three utterly illiterate exhorters was the only instructor around the settlement.
These Negro exhorters were encouraged to exercise a measure of spiritual oversight in the midst of their brethren and so help the church and pastor in caring for the flock.
Originally there were two Negro preachers, one a deacon, the other a licentiate, and two exhorters in these early days.
The inventor of pins did a thousand times more good than all the popes and cardinals, the bishops and priests--than all the clergymen and parsons, exhorters and theologians that ever lived.
Local preachers and exhorters followed up the work.
It is worthy of remark that to this day this church is next neighbor to the one founded soon after upon the work of the exhorters before alluded to.
Preachers and exhorters are housed nearby, and visitors from all the country scatter about with their friends, or sleep in the open, cooking their meals by the wayside.
Laura lifted her head at this and dropped with the other exhorters on her knees on the floor.
One characteristic of these unlicensed exhorters seems to be very persistent,--their almost superhuman fluency.
Preaching without notes is not particularly difficult if one has something to say, but these exhorters attempt to preach without notes and also without ideas.
The first of the exhorters had swung into the full tide of his discourse.
Henderson stood with folded arms beside the preacher whose pattern of faith differed from that of the two exhorters he had come to hear.
But the brotherhood soon wearied of his oratory, in which the blasphemy of thought and phrase was strangely contrasted with the ecclesiastical whine which he had caught from the exhorters who were the terror of his youth.
The builders looked at each other and then at their exhorters in a confused fashion for a moment, and ended by obeying the summons in a sullen and indifferent manner.
The aggressively successful proselytizing by the Methodists revived the old dislike of rash exhorters and itinerant preachers, and the old contempt for an ignorant and unlearned ministry.
The laws were framed to repress itinerants and exhorters through loss of their civil rights.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exhorters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
