But there is another kind of prayer for which there is no other place than the great congregation; a prayer in which many pleading hearts unite; in which the sympathies and hopes and aspirations of a thousandworshipers are blended.
The message which stirs the hearts of five hundred worshipers would make much less impression upon any one of them if he heard it alone.
The alchemists and the astrologers were searching blindly for truth which they did not find, but the truth was there; the fetish worshipers and the magicians and the idolaters were also, as Paul said, seeking after the unknown God.
It was a city in itself, with a community of priests and sacristans dwelling in it, and a floating population of sightseers and worshipers always passing through it.
The worshipers were slipping out, one by one, and soon no one was left but the old man of the cudgel and myself.
During Sylvia's meditation the church had gradually filled with worshipers to receive the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
Equally, I must get over the slightest consciousness of being superior to any of the worshipers in this church.
There was the same sort of atmosphere that exists in a theater between a matinee and an evening performance; the emotion of the departed worshipers was mingled with the expectation of more worshipers to come.
When Zacharias came out of the temple to the multitude of worshipers that had been impatiently waiting for his return, he beckoned to the people with his hand, and they perceived that he had seen a vision.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship.
He required of his worshipers cleanliness of surroundings and person and heart.
Round the goddess of love cluster romances of her own tender passion, of the affairs of the winged Cupid, and of the loves of the worshipers at her shrine.
She is placed apart from the other worshipers by a considerable distance.
Moreover, these traders in the outer courts of the synagogue were rendering the worshipers a useful service.
Among the sun worshipers of Persia, among the Druids of the far north, among the Phoenicians, among the Romans, and among the ancient Goths and Saxons the winter solstice was the occasion of festivities.
Our dying are carried to the Temple of the Worshipers of Distance, and are there consecrated.
They have sometimes been called fire worshipers and sun worshipers, but they simply regard fire as the purest thing known and therefore accept it as a symbol of the invisible god.
It is literally covered with paper wads which have been thrown against it by worshipers at the temple in the belief that their prayers would be answered if the wads adhered to the image.
When the name of the Deity was called over some hallowed spot, the worshipers felt that the presence of God also was bound up with the sacred place.
They even built their hope upon the portions of the Law, which was read to assembled worshipers that they might know and observe it on their return to the land of their fathers.
Thus worshipersof wooden idols would, according to Scripture, "say to a stock, Thou art my father.
Henceforth Ger and Ger Toshab became juridical terms, the social and legal designation of those proselytes who had abjured heathenism and joined the monotheistic ranks of Judaism as "worshipers of God.
At any rate, the observance of the so-called Noahitic laws was demanded of all worshipers of the one God of Israel.
This sailor said that it was probably the work of the gods, who labor secretly at night that the plain may stay flat and clean of obstacles so their true worshipers may sail upon it and profit thereby.
The former worshipers considered that their totem had deserted them and therefore deserved death.
All the churches of Seville were to send forth their imaged Madonnas in great splendor, with attending priests, that their worshipers might see them by broad daylight.
The glory of the fire-worshipers has, so far as Yusuf is concerned, passed away.
And the smoke of their torment goes up until the Ages of the Ages; and the worshipers of the Wild Beast and his statue have no rest day or night, nor has any one who receives the mark of his name.
Although it has been said that man formed his gods according to his own image, yet when theology was once systematized, morality was demanded from the worshipers of the gods, who nevertheless became as sinful as the images which they adored.
Perhaps it was from sea-bathing that his body derived the peculiar fragrance which his worshipers strongly maintained that it possessed.
His worshipers date from this journey to Egypt the beginning of his miraculous power, and assert that he accomplished many miracles at sea.
The hymn was first introduced to American worshipers by Richard Storrs Willis, who included it in his "Church Chorals and Choir Studies," published in 1850.
The Danes might have been regular worshipers in the place for all notice was accorded them by the well trained congregation; and after they were tired of watching the minister the animals quietly stretched themselves to sleep.
From the doorways on either side, the men's and the women's, these silent worshipers were now issuing; the men to seek the vehicles waiting beneath the long shed and the women to gossip a moment of neighborhood affairs.
Such a crowd of figures in that ancient garb, occupying the floor in the midst of the living worshipers of the present day, has an effect which at first is startling.
Near the door was a figure of the Saviour sinking under the weight of his cross, and the worshipers were kneeling to kiss his feet.
It is the women who form the large majority of the worshipers in the churches.
I looked about me for some evidence of the success of their labors, but among the worshipers I saw not one male of Indian descent.
This was the hour of association and union to all the worshipers of God.
Meals in which the worshipers partook of the flesh of a sacred animal (in which sometimes the dead animal itself shared) have probably been celebrated from an immemorial antiquity.
It was supposed that the god, when he was in need of food, sometimes used means to stimulate his worshiperson earth to make him an offering.
In both these cults the main interest of the worshipers was centered in a single deity, though other deities were recognized.
There is no proof that in South Arabia or in Babylonia the term Ilu meant anything else than the local deity, though such a deity would naturally receive all the attributes that his worshipers demanded in their religious constructions.
She had her rivals, as we have seen, in Marduk and Ashur and others; and that she was able to maintain herself is to be ascribed in some measure to the importance attached by her worshipers to the fertilizing power of nature.
These were all made to accord with the external and internal condition of their worshipers and met the demands of life in that they represented redemption, salvation, and, in general, all blessings.
A peculiar form of procession is that in which the worshipers move round a sacred object, perhaps the adoption of a natural form of play.
His self-castration reflects the practice of the priests and other worshipers of Kybele.
He insisted that people who stayed away from church because he read the service badly or burned too many candles or wore vestments were only ostentatiousworshipers who looked upon the church as wax-works must regard Madame Tussaud's.
He had built himself a temple that was an interesting work of art, but it holds worshipers no more, even though the priest has since been released.
But otherwise, despite the great conglomeration and greater cooperation, in the entire mass one cannot see how ancestor-worshipers can show so little regard for one another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worshipers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
