The occasion of themeetings was the approach of the boll weevil to their districts.
The workingman without capital, whether he be in their meetings or only employed on their farms, is kept from want.
The moral life of country people requires cultivation of the leisure hours, the casual talk, the occasional meetings of men and women, and especially of young people.
Even the Roman Catholics once or twice a year for twenty years have been brought together in meetings which express the unity of the countryside.
A good instance of this conformity to type was furnished in the case of meetings held in Louisiana and Western Mississippi among the farmers who raise cotton.
The telephone is the new system of nerves for the rural organism, but the telephone is a cold, steel wire instead of the warm and cordial personal meetings with which the countryside was once enlivened.
The recreations of country life should be meetings for the celebration of great events of the year.
It is more closely under the supervision of the minister, who is generally the superior in education of the laymen, and the social value of the meetings of the Sunday school will be greater in the larger body.
These charming meetings by night, Likovay's journey to Thurzo's wedding had brought to an end.
The quarterly or circuit meetings were in turn organized into twelve districts, eleven in England and one in China.
The interior consists chiefly of a regularly-built room, designed specially formeetings and concerts, with an orchestra containing a fine organ.
Chartism took a strong hold in Birmingham, and, under the influence of Feargus O'Connor and some of his associates, nightly meetings of a threatening character were held in the Bull Ring.
I left the next morning, promising to call again as soon as I could, and some time to hold meetings with them when the men were at home from fishing in the winter.
Although it stormed every day but one, the meetings were blessed by the conversion of some, and the church rejoiced with a new spirit for work.
I had been exploring nearly every part of the Upper Peninsula where there was any chance of an opening for Christian work; had visited thirteen churches, and held meetings with most of them; had a few conversions and two baptisms.
You will not be surprised, perhaps, to find your missionary from Northern Michigan turning up at Olivet, Southern Michigan where the Lord graciously baptized the meetings with his Holy Spirit.
It was my privilege to conduct a few gospel meetings which were blessed to the conversion of some score or more of souls who were added to the church.
He began, ere long, to accompany Carlos to the meetingsof the Protestants, who welcomed the new acquisition to their ranks with affectionate enthusiasm.
His successor Mamoon permitted the society to hold their meetings in a building erected in another situation, and it lingered on till the fall of the khalifat of Egypt.
In the intervals between the meetings of general chapters, the powers of the order were exercised by the chapter of the Temple at Jerusalem.
They have their night meetings and praying parties, where, attended by their priests, .
All meetings of the Sanhedrim were held in the hall adjoining the temple.
For a year or more afterward, the meetingswere not well attended.
Four years after the founding of this Society, interest in the meetings began to flag, and it was voted that the fine for non-attendance should be five shillings, unless the member absenting himself gave a reasonable excuse therefor.
There was suppressed anger and hatred of the ruling class throughout the land, and the people would not assist the police (who attacked their meetings and bludgeoned or stabbed them into submission) in tracking murderers or incendiaries.
Notifications of meetingswere called "warnings," and members were warned in whatever way the secretary desired.
By 1810, the material in the organization began to grow again, and the meetings were held at the Old Exchange coffee house.
Mass meetings were held and speeches of bitter defiance hurled against the Federal Government.
Mass meetings were held and the people called to defend their cause with their last drop of blood.
My meetings with Mr. Done have been merely friendly.
The excitement of the revolt was at its height, a sense of the imminent climax was in the air, and the men were gathered in knots and meetings discussing the position.
In the Spring of 1847 meetings were held at the Center; Rev.
The vestry formerly stood on the opposite of the common and contained two rooms; prayer meetings were held in the lower room, while up stairs was the only hall in town.
We often see reports of meetings saying that so many “backsliders were reclaimed.
How sweet to be with him in the secret closet and in the meetings with his saints!
Sometimes they go to meetings where, while they find some good things, they also see other things and feel things that grate upon their spiritual sense of propriety.
However, he replied at once, with a gallant bow: "And to take my chance of such unpleasing meetings as this one.
Raimundo, having often been present at the meetings of Congress, had picked up the accent and gesture of each to the life.
The various fraternities, whose work has been referred to in various despatches, have established headquarters and called meetings of surviving local members.
These meetings are held in Alma Hall, belonging to the Odd Fellows, which, owing to its solid construction, withstood the pressure of the flood.
And those figures do not by any means represent the thousands of dollars voted at the recruiting meetings and subscribed and donated for local bounties and for relief purposes.
We want stability, we want political petrifaction, and we therefore demand that these meetings shall be dismissed, that these processions shall halt, that these flags shall be furled.
The next meetings were held in Springfield, Illinois, and Indianapolis, Indiana, the expenses of which were paid in the same way.
It was thought best to hold a few public meetings for the purpose of arousing the public mind.
A political demonstration was made in Wall Street yesterday afternoon that stands without a rival among the many out-door meetings in that place, which for years have been memorable features of Presidential campaigns.
He was a member at the time of the Sons of Temperance, and it was at the meetings of this society that he seized his first opportunities to develop and display his gifts as a public speaker.
Now comes a dinner which is hardly more hearty than his luncheon, and after this he attends the meetings of committees, which assemble in the evening chiefly to suit his convenience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meetings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
