The throng ofworshippers increased, until, in the very midst of the great Civil War, it was necessary to have more room.
To his worshippers he gives abundance of wealth and happiness, and he leads them to victory over hostile tribes of Aryans and the still more dreaded hordes of dark-skins, the Dāsas and Dasyus.
But it has given birth to at any rate one interesting little sect, the worshippers of Dattātrēya, who are to be found mainly in the Maratha country.
Very early theworshippers began to repair to the house of God.
Long before the bell began to toll, the churchyard had its groups of earnest, sad-faced worshippers discussing in low and fearful tones the evil days which had come upon the land.
The great pillared courts of the Temple were filled with worshippers and pilgrims from all over the Tamil country and from as far north as Benares.
They become the property of the Temple priests and worshipperswho go to the Temple to chant the sacred songs.
Go where they would, the conscientious worshippers were sooner or later detected, and dragged as culprits before bishop or magistrate.
So in the narrative of the destruction of the house, and the prophets, priests, and worshippers of the Baal, by Jehu, 2 Kings x.
So offensive and intolerable indeed to the true worshippers was this apostasy, "that the priests, and the Levites that were in all Israel .
The prophets and true worshippers all regarded the separation of the ten tribes as an apostasy from the theocratic government, the seat of which was in the temple, and the representative vicegerent on the throne was to be in the line of David.
As a counterpart to the sacred oracle and the gift of prophecy, the worshippers of Baal had auguries, divinations, and pretended oracles in every country.
The system of Idolatry founded on a perversion of the Doctrine of Mediation--References to the Worshippers of Baal, Israelite and Pagan.
It would therefore be incongruous and preposterous to suppose that the worshippers did not understand the doctrines and typical references involved in the system, as well as the ritual forms and observances.
As under Nero, so, a century and a half later, there were worshippers of Christ in the household of Cæsar.
Jesus Christ, we may be sure, had other confessors and worshippers in the Imperial palace as well as Alexamenos.
Will you deny that you went to look at the pictures, passing among a group of worshippers who were hearing mass?
That the worshippers were praying, that the priest was elevating the Sacred Host, that the moment of supreme piety and devotion had come--what of that?
David was disturbed at this, feeling some insecurity in dealing with a Deity who had thus seemed to punish one of His worshippers for a well-meant and respectful act.
The sudden intrusion of a new element naturally alarmed the worshippers of the surrounding local deities; they at once put a truce to their petty discords, and united in arms against the strangers.
He was supposed to hover continually over the world, hurling fiery darts at the enemies of his people, and protecting his kingly worshippersunder the shadow of his wings.
Thereupon the crypts lost most of their attraction, and the worshippers gathered about the altars in the upper churches to which the bones had been transferred.
The assistants and worshippers sank upon their knees, and ere he was aware the Count was in the same attitude of devotion.
The villagers flocked thither to see Him, and at His sight became worshippers of Krishna.
Even among the Vaishnavs [of the South] some were worshippers of Vishnu in the incarnation of Ram, some the followers of Madhwacharya, some of Ramanuj's sect of Shri Vaishnavs.
At Shiva Kanchi he visited Shiva; His power turned the worshippers of Shakti and Shiva into Vaishnavs.
Everywhere the worshippers at Shiva's shrines were turned into Vaishnavs.
All of them, on meeting with the Master, became worshippers of Vishnu in the incarnation of Krishna, and began to chant Krishna's name.
A quadrangle in front of the inner shrine, where the worshippers stand when gazing on the idol.
The Shaivas are the worshippers of Shiva the destroyer, while the Shaktas are the worshippers of Shakti or energy, the wife of Shiva.
All became worshippersof Krishna, to the marvel of mankind.
He stood close to the image of Garuda, while hundreds of thousands of worshippers thronged in front of Him.
For they will think that the gods have failed to make their worshippers good men.
Another fragment shows a train ofworshippers approaching the Kabeiros, in the manner of the Asklepios reliefs.
But his worshippers bought off his chains, and even made for him a kind of throne.
Many of the male worshippers were clad in their grave-clothes, and the extreme zealots remained standing all day long, swaying to and fro and beating their breasts at the confessions of sin.
The reverent worshippers assemble morning and evening, in all the pride of their paint and feathers, but there is no hideous idol inside; nay!
Congregations of worshippers in the dark-aisled church have listened to a fabulous description of my mission and character, until the barber would not cut my hair or the butcher sell me his meat!
In Christendom organs peal out the anthems of Divine love, and well- dressed worshippers chant in harmonious unison, "Lord, incline our hearts to keep Thy law.
Round the sides stand twelve life-size figures, made of canvas and stuffed with husks of corn, which some one of the Indian worshippers has painted with the features and dress of his own race.
It is frequently recognised that deities ought to show gratitude to theirworshippers for the sacrifices offered to them, as Freyia does in Hyndlulióð, though at the same time they are at liberty to refuse a petition, as in Il.
It will be seen that this type of religion is not very far removed from what we find among the Thor-worshippers of Iceland.
On this dancing-place the whole body of worshippers would gather, just as now-a-days the whole community will assemble on a village green.
The women worshippers of Dionysos, we are told, wore bulls' horns in imitation of the god, for they represented him in pictures as having a bull's head.
The Olivetans were zealous worshippersof Mary, and strict ascetics.
The wide-spread tradition that in times of sore persecution the worshippers betook themselves to the Catacombs is evidently inconsistent with the limited space which these afforded.
Worshippers of an Ass= (Asinarii) was a term of reproach that was originally and from early times applied to the Jews.
God is a holy God, his law is a holy law, the place of his worship is a holy place, and the Jewish nation as his worshippers are a holy people.
Most of these are worshippers of Vischnu or of Siva, for Brahma-worship has wholly disappeared.
It is almost certain that this Hindoo Triad was the result of an ingenious and successful attempt, on the part of the Brahmans, to unite all classes of worshippers in India against the Buddhists.
They welcomed Europeans as "brethren from across the sea," and claimed them as fellow-worshippers of "Yesu.
The worshippers were also expected to wash their bodies, or at least their hands and feet, before going into the temple; a custom common also among the Jews and other nations.
It is a curious fact that they had a vessel of holy water at the entrance of the temples, consecrated by putting into it a burning torch from the altar, with which or with a branch of laurel the worshippers were sprinkled on entering.
Nevertheless, they are gods, not devils, and have their worship and worshippers among those whose religious nature is more imbued with fear than with hope.
Brugsch derives it from Ki-Ptah = worshippers of Ptah.
Is this some superstitious rite of the idol-worshippers as described in the case of Dagon, 1 Sam.
But it would seem that the statement of Cyrus is limited to the restoration of Assyrian idols and their worshippers to Assur and Akkad.
When they landed in England, they found the Britons generally worshippers of the True Divinity.
It is said likewise that he celebrated publicly the sacred rites of Isis [688], clad in a linen garment, such as is used by the worshippers of that goddess.
He likewise set forward upon the day when the worshippers of the Mother of the gods [681] begin their lamentations and wailing.
Now, all these were matters of the firmest belief, more than three thousand years ago, in the minds of millions of the most devout worshippers that ever bowed the knee in humble prayer to the Father of Mercies.
The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worshippers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
