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Example sentences for "local preacher"

  • It was during the time that he was a local preacher at this church that he learned the lesson of his life.

  • At the age of seventeen he was converted in a Methodist revival meeting, and nine months later was licensed as a local preacher, and has been preaching ever since.

  • By the time he was eighteen he had served in all the local spiritual offices of the church, and was then licensed as a local preacher by the quarterly conference of said circuit.

  • William Dawson was a local preacher, a farmer.

  • Before I was twenty I became a local preacher.

  • I was a local preacher in that Body, and was expected and requested to go out as a travelling preacher.

  • As a local preacher, he filled some of the appointments on the circuit up to about 1834, when he joined the New York Conference, and continued in the regular work of the ministry until retired by reason of age.

  • Methodist Episcopal Church, received his license as a local preacher.

  • At last, and quite lately, he had risen to be a local preacher.

  • Jock Smith's own parson, being in charge of the Bethesda in Trafalgar Road where Jock Smith worshipped and where he had recently begun to preach as a local preacher.

  • That a local preacher should go direct from the vestry to the gin-palace and there drink ale with a strolling player!

  • But what a calamity for a local preacher with a naughty past to be kissed in full rehearsal by a soprano from Manchester!

  • In 1769 Robert Williams, a local preacher, was first to enter Virginia and preach his first sermon at Norfolk.

  • Francis Clark, a local preacher, was the first to enter Kentucky, in 1782.

  • So Abe became a local preacher, and while he always felt and said that the office honoured him, he, on the other hand, did his utmost to honour the position which the Church had called him to occupy.

  • In this way Abe continued for some time, occasionally preaching without being officially recognized, but at length his name was placed on the plan as a local preacher on trial.

  • We may now consider that Abe had really commenced practice as a local preacher, and before long the numerous demands made upon him professionally showed the estimation in which he was held among the people.

  • At this same place I heard about a local preacher, a man of a very fine character, who was taxed one day by his employer with having served as a model to an artist of the town, a Mr. Charles.

  • Having passed my examination in the usual way, I was received into full connection as a local preacher.

  • Soon after this, he was removed from the parental roof, and placed with a local preacher at B.

  • The plan I had marked out for myself contemplated, ultimately, the position of a Local Preacher, and a life devoted largely to literature and business.

  • Uriel Farmin, a Local Preacher and a member of the Association.

  • I was granted a Local Preacher's license and recommended to the Rock River Conference for admission on trial.

  • I was often urged to accept a Local Preacher's license, but declined, thinking I was too much occupied in the other field to make the necessary preparation for this.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brotherly kindness; certain persons; great warrior; indictment against; local affairs; local application; local authorities; local authority; local banks; local circle; local circles; local colour; local government; local option; local origin; local rates; local short; local taxation; local treatment; locally known; once told; our said lord the; pound trout; small hand; such wise; sulphuric acid