He guessed at once she must be Miss Eden, the new Resident Magistrate's sister, of whose ministrations to the poor he had heard much since his return from his late holiday.
Still none, knowing the gratification that her ministrations gave her, would have grudged her their indulgence.
Miss Nightingale herself was accused successively, and with equal absurdity in each case, of being prejudiced for, or against, Catholics and Protestants, and of being inimical to religious ministrations altogether.
They were most devoted and self-sacrificing, and their spiritual ministrations were admirable, but as nurses and administrators she thought less highly of them.
To these ministrations I left the parocco, intending to call for news of him the next evening; but an unexpected pressure of work kept me late at my desk, and the following day some fresh obstacle delayed me.
Anson had died and that his apotheosis had taken place before his young priestess's induction to the temple, made her ministrations easier and more inspiring.
These symptoms are considered to be an infallible sign of divine influence, and the novice is accordingly recognized as a full-fledged priest ready to begin his ministrations under the protection of his spiritual friends.
A few others, of whom I was one, had these bloody ministrations performed on them.
For the first eight or ten years of my ministry I did not know my English Bible as I should have known it, a fact to which my own spiritual life and the character of my pulpit ministrations bore depressing witness.
But to what extent do they "taste" it in the ordinary pulpit ministrations of the day?
Long before the Disruption the people had well-nigh ceased attending the ministrations of the parish incumbent.
Neither would admit the ministrations of the Ordinary, to whom they "behaved rudely," and they were attended at the place of execution by priests of their own stamp in a lay habit.
Men who had but a short time to live mingled freely with their fellow-prisoners, recklessly carousing, and often making a boast that they laughed to scorn and rejected the well-meant ministrations of the ordinary.
Neither would admit the ministrations of the ordinary, to whom they "behaved rudely," and they were attended at the place of execution by priests of their own stamp in a lay habit.
Forgive a biblical form of address--a reminiscence merely of my father's morning ministrations to my unmarried sisters, the footmen, and the maids.
I feel awfully obliged to him, though his ministrations to-night amounted to being slightly embarrassing.
Moreover, he was intolerant of the presence of the clergy and of their ministrations in sick rooms.
Let us walk delicately as Agag--my father's morning ministrationsto the maids again!
Diversity of ministrations but the same spirit” seems to have been the law of Apostolical succession in this Church.
We will now show what the teaching and the feeling of the primitive church was on the subject of the departed dead and the ministrations of angels.
Do they really believe themselves to partake in their life-struggle of the kindness and care of the blessed angels who take delight in ministrations for their benefit?
In the third century the simple ordinance of baptism was further encumbered and perverted by the ministrations of an exorcist.
On this, their first mission, they were instructed to confine their ministrations to the house of Israel, and the burden of their message was "The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Nor was he withholding the child from the ministrationsof the sacred sisters.
Father Pedro dwelt upon the stranger's rejections of the ministrations of the Church with a pitiable satisfaction; had he accepted it, he would have had a sacred claim upon Father Pedro's sympathy and confidence.
All that is told in this and the succeeding chapter about the ministrationsof Alexander to the French prisoners is strictly and circumstantially true.
Clémence seconded all his efforts; and her wise and loving ministrations made each of her temporary homes a little spot of light amidst the darkness.
He was by trade a printer, and became a convert to the doctrines of the "Christian Baptists," under the ministrations of the noted Elias Smith.
Their ministrations are almost if not quite universal.
Shall we, therefore, deny to all, and banish from the world the refiningministrations of beauty in form and color and sweet sounds?
The only objection was that they would be obliged to observe their religion for an indefinite time without the ministrations of their priests.
The Récollets had abandoned the Huron mission as their numbers were diminishing every year, and they were too poor to continue their ministrations without assistance.
The men never complained, and accepted these simple ministrations with exemplary sang-froid.
As the night struggles slowly into day so sickness climbs stealthily into health, and nature has a system of medicining her ailments which might only be thwarted by the ministrations of a mere doctor.
One of the most curious effects of the decree was the spirit roused among the laity thus encouraged to judge and even to refuse the ministrations of an unworthy priest.
They condemned the simoniacal clergy in every rank, deposing them from their positions and commanding them to withdraw from the ministrations of the altar.
The produce of her needle clothed the poor, fed the hungry, and many times defrayed the expense of a mission, when accident brought her in contact with poor Catholics to whom such ministrations were acceptable and profitable.
Both are, as they should be, combined in the ministrations of the church; but the ceremonial fixes the oral teaching.
Every young man should be a regular attendant on the ministrations of religion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ministrations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
