The vestiarium or vestry where the copes and clothes were deposited.
Having made the discovery that members of the vestry of St. Matthew's Church had been bribing the city council, I demanded an investigation, and I was turned out of the church.
The vestry has refused me a hearing and turned me out of the church.
I demand a hearing from the vestry of this church.
Members of its vestry have bribed the government of the town.
It is certainly not becoming for you, a mere boy, and filling a subordinate position, to come to me with gossip concerning the vestry of my church.
I will take any member of this vestry to talk with that man!
Then he bade good-by to Ethel and her mother, and hurried back into the vestry room to tell Dr.
And the vestry refused to investigate it, and turned out a member of the church!
In thevestry room," said the other; and the boy went there.
That charge was made before the vestry of the St. Matthew's Church!
And for the benefit of those whom he still saw emerging, he raised his hands and shouted: "There are men in the vestry of this church who have bribed the city council of Lockmanville!
Here a new member of the vestry entered the arena.
With a yell of defiance he tore through the vestry and round behind the chapel.
Gissing started toward the vestry door, but was delayed by the mass of scuffling choir-puppies who had seized this uncomprehended diversion as a chance to settle some scores of their own.
The extraordinary expense of 1810 was caused by the building of the vestry and hanging of the bells.
He had an annual payment for lighting the vestry fire; another (5s.
The expenses of the oldvestry fire, which had risen to 5s.
Tradition says that while George Walker lighted the vestry fire he rang the eight o'clock bell--a call to matins which had survived the Reformation, and the service then abolished.
A vestry was partitioned off the north-east angle of the church, which was formerly known as the Langdale choir.
Dan crept up to the opposite side, leaped the low cobble wall, and placed himself under the shadow of the vestry by the chancel.
The Bishop was seen to come out of the vestry door, and at the sight of him the crowd seemed to awake out of its first stupor.
As the Bishop was turning in at the vestry door, blind Kerry and her husband Hommy passed him, and he hailed them as he had hailed the others.
That poor little vestry had disappeared, and this present world was forgotten.
The strange clergyman was just coming through the vestry door.
Besides, the minister of the church will feel it his duty to introduce the leading members of his congregation after the lecture, and a reception of this kind in the vestryis the last straw on a weary lecturer's back.
In the absence of the Rector one of the Wardens presides at Parish and Vestry meetings.
The Vestry have nothing to do in determining what use the Rector shall {160} make of the Church building in carrying out the provisions of the Prayer Book.
The "Vestry Problem" has commanded the attention of the General Convention from time to time, but so far nothing has been presented for its solution.
He is the presiding officer at all Vestry meetings, superintendent of the Sunday-school, and President of all Guilds, Brotherhoods and other parochial societies.
This fact may explain why it is that the Vestry System, as such, is ever presenting problems difficult to solve.
A score of the younger boys in white knickers and singlets came pattering down from the stage, through the vestry and to the chapel.
In the middle of the vestry a young jesuit, who was then on a visit to the college, stood rocking himself rhythmically from the tips of his toes to his heels and back again, his hands thrust well forward into his side-pockets.
In the vestry a plump fresh-faced jesuit and an elderly man, in shabby blue clothes, were dabbling in a case of paints and chalks.
The vestryand chapel were peopled with eager masters and boys.
After hesitating whether or no to go to the vestry door, she turned away and walked home alone.
We occupied the old meeting-house in which he preached; there in the vestry stood the chair in which he sat.
At an early period in my Kensington pastorate, a gentleman called upon me in the vestry with a transfer to our Church from a communion he had joined in Manchester.
It is not however essential to the validity of the meeting that it should be held in the Vestry of the church, indeed, by making application under an Act passed in 1850, meetings in the Vestry can be made illegal.
A rate which the Churchwardens and Vestry had the right to levy on ratepayers for the repairs of the Church, and for the expenses connected with Divine Service.
Meetings of parishioners, for the despatch of the official business of the parish are held in this room, whence they are called Vestries, or Vestry Meetings.
A vestry meeting was called, and the rate (to obtain funds for the bells) was at length passed.
Mr. Churchwarden Threpp, we will call a vestry meeting and make a rate.
Had he a suggestion to make for the welfare of the parish, his patron ridiculed it; did he venture to propose some wise measure at a vestry meeting, the Captain put him and his measure down.
The pulpit was not the place in which to discuss these matters, but in the vestry afterwards he would be pleased to meet such members of the congregation as might choose to stay.
Not till he entered the vestry at five minutes to eleven did recollection of his farewell sermon come to him.
Finsbury can arrange with theVestry as he likes," said the vanman.
The man says we'll have to take off the door, or knock two of our windows into one, or be fined by the Vestry or Custom House or something for leaving our parcels on the pavement.
In the vestry is a copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs," together with a number of Bibles and books of homilies, all having still attached to them the ancient chains by which they were formerly secured.
Near the door of the vestry hangs the elaborate genealogical tree of one W.
I request to know if the vestry taxes in Ireland are a mere matter of romantic feeling which can affect only the Earl of Fingal?
In a parish where there are four thousand Catholics and fifty Protestants, the Protestants may meet together in a vestry meeting at which no Catholic has the right to vote, and tax all the lands in the parish 1s.
No inscription marks it, not even his name; a small brass plate hid away over the vestry door and scarcely legible is the only record that the remains of Robert Clive rest within its walls.
As a member of the Select Vestry he made the poor laws a special subject of study.
Thicken with the cornflour, then stir in the yolk of egg with the lemon juice, and serve.
In the manufacture of macaroni some of the bran is removed from the flour, but the meal left is still very rich in flesh-forming matter.
But he had not given up his studio near the Vestry Hall; Amory knew that because he had sent her the key of it and had asked her to forward his letters; and Amory went there daily.
He had come out of the vestry and in the church David had joined him, following him down the aisle to the door and waiting close behind him through the usual Sunday greetings: "Morning, Sam!
On this summer Sunday morning, when he went into the vestry for that purpose, he found Dr.
Yesterday morning I spent about three hours in the vestry of Gideon, to be able to have more time for retirement.
Many persons, on account of timidity, would prefer coming at an appointed time to the vestry to converse with us, to calling on us in our own house.
The Lord be praised, who has put it into my mind to use the vestry for a place of retirement!
