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Example sentences for "religious service"

  • Wheaton, the celebrated prison evangelist, visited the Buchanan county jail yesterday, and conducted a religious service of forty minutes' length.

  • No one seemed inclined to go and a bystander told him his followers were few and he had better desist from trying to disturb a religious service.

  • Kansas City, arrived in the city this morning and held religious service in the county jail.

  • On board these steamers a religious service is held every Lord's day, but it is usually led by the captain who is often an ungodly man.

  • An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

  • A selection from one of the gospels, for use in a religious service; as, the gospel for the day.

  • See Church, and Mass a religious service.

  • An amusing incident happened to me one Sunday when I was conducting a religious service in a little chapel.

  • I consider that every time I attend a Labour meeting I attend a religious service in the strictest sense of the word.

  • It was finished that evening and I sat up all night and addressed the copies ready for post the next Sunday, as I had a religious service to conduct on Sunday.

  • Perhaps he was under the influence of the delusion that the more painful a religious service is, the more is it acceptable to God.

  • It was a place to which he had come to hold a religious service, and the occasion was evidently one of much importance.

  • It was a religious service he was come to perform, such a service as may have been associated with the other religious services he was accustomed to hold as he went round in circuit in the neighbourhood of Ramah.

  • Gurney Visit to Minden--Religious service in Yorkshire Goes again to Minden Neuveville Paris Visit to Bristol and Gloucester Quarterly Meetings Minden Visit to Birmingham, Leicester, &c.

  • In the spring of 1841 they repeated their visit to the Isle of Wight, spent great part of the summer in religious service in Essex, and visited afterwards Bristol, Bath, and other parts of Somersetshire.

  • It is far from pleasant thus to be plundered of any part of our property; but I consider it as much the duty of a Christian to bear with becoming fortitude the cross-occurrences of common life as to be exercised in religious service.

  • Footnote 48: Nevertheless the Brahmanic, and even the Hinduistic, law-codes condemn all intoxicating liquors except in religious service.

  • Williams has a very interesting account of the daily rites of the modern orthodox Hindu ('Rig Veda in Religious Service').

  • The wife's religious service is not concerned with feasts to the Manes, with sacrifice to the gods, nor with studying the Veda.

  • Trublet declared that Chevalier might very well do without a religious service.

  • All the same, we must have a religious service," said Romilly, with all the authority of a stage-manager.

  • You speak, governor, of the ruinous effect of prolixity in religious service.

  • Give my love to the sexton, and tell him never to chase a dog in religious service.

  • The Governor said: I cannot bear the "preliminaries" of religious service.

  • I know there has been much talk of late about liturgies in the churches, and whether or not audiences should take audible part in religious service.

  • Joseph Gurney and a few other Friends met at my father's house to spend the evening; and as I expected there would be a religious service, I feigned indisposition as an excuse for not being present.

  • I compared a religious service with a concert; and while the recollection of the one produced a pleasant feeling, the other appeared dull and insipid.

  • We can only express ourselves in this form, for nothing else will indicate our real sense and conscience of this mode of religious service.

  • But the Mass music of the day is employed with a special regard to popularity; which, however, as a matter of fact, and as a part of religious service, it does not succeed in acquiring.

  • Like all the formal hulas, it was tabu, by which the Hawaiians meant that it was a religious service, or so closely associated with the notion of worship as to make it an irreverence to trifle with it.


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