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  • Briarcrest, also evangelical, was as far east as you could get and still be in Memphis.†   (source)
  • Other characters have names like Faithful, Evangelist, and the Giant Despair.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the smile, or maybe the ever-ready love she saw in his eyes--easy and upfront, the way colts, evangelists and children look at you: with love you don't have to deserve--that made her go ahead and tell him what she had not told Baby Suggs, the only person she felt obliged to explain anything to.†   (source)
  • At the time, Kathy was attending a large evangelical church not far from her jobs.†   (source)
  • One of the boxcars has been turned into a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise, and evangelical CentroAmencans are lined up to do their penance and speak in tongues below the neon Elvis.†   (source)
  • After World War I, the heavily German character of Anaheim gave way to the influence of newer arrivals from the Midwest, who tended to be Protestant and conservative and evangelical about their faith.†   (source)
  • His father would walk into the building without looking at him, wearing the frock coats that Transito Ariza later had to alter for him, and with a face identical to that of St. John the Evangelist on the altars.†   (source)
  • Daddy wasn't one of those fiery types like some television evangelists.†   (source)
  • It got so that it didn't matter what Bible story she or I read to our tiny evangelist at night, whether from the Old Testament, the New Testament, about Moses or Noah or King Solomon, Colton wrapped up the night with the same message: "Jesus loves the children!†   (source)
  • Lifestyle change, for which I could now preach like an evangelist.†   (source)
  • "All human beings are born with rights derived from God that no earthly power can take away" The sun was shining through the stained glass window of John the Evangelist, depicted in a loincloth some church ladies had complained was inappropriate, even in our tropical heat.†   (source)
  • A few people who had fainted were being revived on the side aisles when the evangelist opened the doors of the church.†   (source)
  • …hunting on Sunday; war on the increasing tendency of young women to paint themselves and smoke in public; war on drinking whiskey—in this connection at least fifty children per summer went to the altar and swore they would not drink, smoke, or curse until they were twenty-one; war on something so nebulous Jean Louise never could figure out what it was, except there was nothing to swear concerning it; and war among the town's ladies over who could set the best table for the evangelist.†   (source)
  • He was very young and he was dressed in the black robes of an evangelist.†   (source)
  • Perrin's church was about to fail as well; by embracing refugees the church found new vitality, and of course, as evangelicals, members of the old Clarkston Baptist Church were able to successfully proselytize among Muslims and other non-Christians.†   (source)
  • Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists, people like the Apostle Paul or Billy Graham or Brigham Young.†   (source)
  • As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains and north across the flat bleak landscape toward Monclova.†   (source)
  • Vital Voices and other liberal groups were stalwart on sex trafficking, as were International Justice Mission and other conservative evangelical groups.†   (source)
  • The hope was to inspire a new generation of astronauts, scientists, and explorers, and Zande was an enthusiastic evangelist.†   (source)
  • In vain Clara explained to her that her guests were not interested in ashtrays, primarily because none of them smoked; but Nana had already made up her mind that they were all, with the exception of the three enchanting Mora sisters, a bunch of evangelical scoundrels.†   (source)
  • I drove them four blocks to the afternoon service, at the Evangelical Missionary Baptist Church, and pushed Aunt Mercy's wheelchair up the gravel driveway.†   (source)
  • What happened to that evangelical fervor?†   (source)
  • Saintly Amma's vision now felt like a pipe dream, a vicarious evangelism so ill informed that Sister Mary Joseph Praise was embarrassed to mention it to Thomas Stone.†   (source)
  • At the Methodist church, the evangelist, while praying at full throttle and with his eyes fiercely closed, lost his balance and fell down eight marble steps.†   (source)
  • We would eat with our plates balanced on our knees in the living room, listening to the gospel music shows that were a warm-up to the evangelists.†   (source)
  • The only thing that doesn't quite fit is that he seems to be an evangelical and was a member of the Word of Life in the nineties."†   (source)
  • He had eyes that could flash with evangelical fire beneath bushy brows.†   (source)
  • Uncle Dick then became the treasurer of the church, Cornerstone Community Church, and later became the treasurer of the Bob Tebow Evangelical Association (BTEA), when we moved to the Philippines.†   (source)
  • I slept a little at our hotel in the city, and was awakened by the sounds of an evangelist preaching through a bullhorn outside on the street.†   (source)
  • Evangelist Billy Graham is also warning the president to stay away from Dallas.†   (source)
  • He looked like the hulk of an evangelist or a professor of esthetics who had spent years in contemplation in obscure museums.†   (source)
  • His voice, fervent and evangelical, carried with it an absolute conviction of the rectitude and efficacy of a society ruled by honor; it quavered slightly and conveyed the earnestness and gentle decency of the speaker.†   (source)
  • In all honesty, what I believe is neither inspirational nor evangelical.†   (source)
  • Evangelists.†   (source)
  • Not bad for the kid from the Evangelical Home.†   (source)
  • Brown said Tester was an evangelist, a traveling preacher from Newport, which was located in Cocke County about sixty miles southwest of Johnson City.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, you don't see many families—the husband, wife, and children—that are so evangelistic.†   (source)
  • Echo was taking himself out, telling Delta to go after the impostor — and while doing so to kill the evangelical butcher.†   (source)
  • This "revival" started tonight with an evangelist named James Robison.†   (source)
  • EVANGELISTS visited Jackson then; along with the Red-path Chautauqua and political speakings, they seemed to be part of August.†   (source)
  • (pause) …. how is it –this is not boring you I hope– how is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being saved.†   (source)
  • While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in silently and grayly, with its head bowed and its face covered.†   (source)
  • The family was evangelical Monist by inheritance, each of Rod's grandfathers having been converted in the second great wave of proselyting that swept out of Persia in the last decade of the previous century, and Rod's father took seriously his duties as family priest.†   (source)
  • The Ibo evangelists consulted among themselves and decided that the man probably meant bicycle.   (source)
  • Then the man mentioned that an evangelist named Billy Graham was preaching downtown.†   (source)
  • SOON THERE'LL BE AN EVANGELIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE; SOON THERE'LL BE A CARDINAL ON THE SUPREME COURT.†   (source)
  • We never once spoke of my having a crazy evangelist husband still in the Congo somewhere.†   (source)
  • It wasn't evangelism, just full disclosure.†   (source)
  • WHAT'S WRONG WITH HIM IS NOT UNLIKE WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE TV EVANGELIST—OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT.†   (source)
  • And the evangelist said, 'Don't let that stand in your way.'†   (source)
  • She wondered if he could be an evangelist, he did not seem to be much more than a boy.†   (source)
  • The man growled back at the evangelist, 'I'm a deacon in this church!'†   (source)
  • The evangelist remained reverent and quiet for long seconds.†   (source)
  • The evangelist put his hand on the man's shoulder and asked him if he wanted to become a Christian.†   (source)
  • She was one of the pillars of the church, a powerful evangelist and very widely known.†   (source)
  • He was an evangelist, but the term meant nothing like what it stands for today.†   (source)
  • Converted sinners flowed down the aisles to shake hands with the evangelist and stayed at his side or were directed to one of the men in line.†   (source)
  • The post-war nightmares caused my life to crumble, but thanks to a confrontation with God through the evangelist Billy Graham, I committed my life to Christ.†   (source)
  • When the collection was taken up and the last hymn given to the praise of God, the evangelist asked that everyone in his presence rededicate his soul to God and his life's work to Charity.†   (source)
  • Of course they had made up their own "religion"; they were monsters of superstition, they were dupes of the kind of hocus-pocus that the television evangelists call "miracles."†   (source)
  • He turned on the TV, keeping the volume off; when I woke up, much later, he was still writing in the diary and watching one of those television evangelists— without the sound.†   (source)
  • Oh, there's big bucks in interpreting the gospel for idiots—or in having idiots interpret the gospel for you—and some of these evangelists are even hypocritical enough to indulge in sexual activity that would embarrass former senator Hart.†   (source)
  • I doubt that Owen ever would have become "sophisticated" enough to make that separation—not even today, when it seems that the only people who are adamant in their claim that public and private morality are inseparable are those creep-evangelists who profess to "know" that God prefers capitalists to communists, and nuclear power to long hair.†   (source)
  • The evangelist woke up Deo, too, but I was simply puzzled by the noise, whereas Deo imagined for a moment that war had broken out again.†   (source)
  • Back in his day, some thirty years earlier, young Reuben Atlee was hired by the First United Methodist Church of Clanton to defend it in a lawsuit brought by a Pentecostal evangelist who was in town whipping up the devotees in the annual Fall Revival.†   (source)
  • People with pleading eyes and desperate faces crowded into tents where evangelists cried in triumphant gloating that man was unable to cope with nature, that his science was a fraud, that his mind was a failure, that he was reaping punishment for the sin of pride, for his confidence in his own intellect-and that only faith in the power of mystic secrets could protect him from the fissure of a rail or from the blowout of the last tire on his last truck.†   (source)
  • I remember an evangelist who walked up to a man in the congregation one night, and the man had a big ol' frown on his face.†   (source)
  • Murrell, his cheated hand hiding the gun, could only continue to smile at Lorenzo, but he remembered in malice that he had disguised himself once as an Evangelist, and his final words to his victim would have been, "One of my disguises was what you are."†   (source)
  • They were all there already, big, comfortable, ordained men; they smiled and nodded as he mounted the pulpit steps; and one of them said, nodding toward the congregation, which was as spirited as any evangelist could wish: "Just getting these folks warmed up for you, boy.†   (source)
  • To his back, he was not so very big, not so flashy and splendid as, for example, some brand-new evangelist come into the midst.†   (source)
  • My real characters were Lorenzo Dow the New England evangelist, Murrell the outlaw bandit and murderer on the Natchez Trace, and Audubon the painter; and the exterior object on which they all at the same moment set their eyes is a small heron, feeding.†   (source)
  • Evangelists from all the surrounding counties, from as far south as Florida and as far north as Chicago, came together in one place to break the bread of life.†   (source)
  • Yes, the power of the Lord was on him that night, and he preached a sermon that was remembered in camp-meetings and in cabins, and that set a standard for visiting evangelists for a generation to come.†   (source)
  • In the history of the temple the Lord had raised up evangelists and teachers and prophets, and called them out into the field to do His work; to go up and down the land carrying the gospel, or to raise other temples? in Philadelphia, Georgia, Boston, or Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • And how about these evangelical types, performing miracles for money?†   (source)
  • He just no longer wanted to think of himself as the kid from the Evangelical Home.†   (source)
  • That one looks much like the Evangelical Home.†   (source)
  • The director of the Evangelical Home had called him in to tell him of his "loss."†   (source)
  • Usually, all you see at a Reverend Wayne's are old beaters with wacky Spanish expressions nail-polished on the rear bumpers-the rides of CentroAmerican evangelicals who have come up north to get decent jobs and escape the relentlessly Catholic style of their homelands.†   (source)
  • Yet I was a curious kid, and the deeper I immersed myself in evangelical theology, the more I felt compelled to mistrust many sectors of society.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Lynch did not lead a regular life, for he would ride away on his mule on the spur of the moment, carrying Bibles and evangelical pamphlets on one side and provisions on the other, and he would return when least expected.†   (source)
  • The vast and fast-growing Grace Evangelical Church that the Tuohys had been instrumental in creating was no softer on homosexuality than any other.†   (source)
  • He'd been Born Again, and helped to create one of the fastest growing evangelical churches in Memphis, the Grace Evangelical Church.†   (source)
  • Other authors have noted the terrible retention rates of evangelical churches and blamed precisely that sort of theology for their decline.†   (source)
  • Every Sunday he attended Grace Evangelical Church, and he was always the first one dressed to go in the morning.†   (source)
  • It is an interesting precept on which to found a ministry: The First Evangelical Baptist Church of the Twin-Prone.†   (source)
  • Excerpts taken from "The Only Sermon Jesus Ever Wrote," sermon by Billy Graham, © 1949 Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.†   (source)
  • Perhaps poor Gary Hart missed his true calling, or are they all the same—these presidential candidates and evangelicals who are caught with their pants down?†   (source)
  • Now the National Association of Evangelicals is an important force for humanitarian causes and foreign aid.†   (source)
  • In faith father and son were at one; the difference between them was only in approach; the evangelical flash did not appear in my father's eye; his virtue was more legalistic.†   (source)
  • The peasants were still living exactly as they had in colonial times, and had not heard of unions, or Sundays off, or the minimum wage; but now delegates from the new-formed parties of the left, disguised as evangelicals, were beginning to infiltrate the haciendas, with a Bible tucked under one armpit and Marxist pamphlets under the other, simultaneously preaching the abstemious life and revolution or death.†   (source)
  • Reticence or an itch to make public confession may distort or dramatize what is really there to be said, and public expressions of belief are so closely associated with inspirational activity, and in fact so often stem from someone's desire to buck up the downhearted and raise the general morale, that belief becomes an evangelical matter.†   (source)
  • Already on her third page of precise notes, she listens intently as a talkative student in the first row parries with James on the "evangelical fervor" question.†   (source)
  • The church money arrives in bundled manila envelopes from Christian congregations called Presbyterian Glory, Heaven on Earth, Korean Fellowship of Devotion, Building Up The Christ, from Korean Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Evangelicals, even Lutherans.†   (source)
  • Liberals could emulate the willingness of many evangelicals to tithe--to donate 10 percent of their incomes each year to charity.†   (source)
  • Still, he pushes forward gamely-there's a lot of ground to cover in this survey course-and by 8:55 he's tying social characteristics of lateeighteenth-century American progressives to the emergence of public educational institutions, schools that carried, he asserts, "an evangelical fervor in what they saw as the serious business of educating youngsters, especially the hordes of immigrants."†   (source)
  • These days bleeding-heart evangelicals are out in front alongside bleeding-heart liberals in fighting for aid money to tackle these problems, as well as malaria.†   (source)
  • He has caught himself thinking about that lately, thinking of the Evangelical Home for Orphans and Old People, an H-shaped, red brick building on Detroit's northwest side, where he grew up.†   (source)
  • That's what happened two centuries ago in the abolitionist movement, when liberal deists and conservative evangelicals joined forces to overthrow slavery.†   (source)
  • Seventeen, a senior in high school, his plans for the future not extending past the next afternoon, and Bacon had come up to him at, of all places, a Christmas Tea in the lounge of the Evangelical Home.†   (source)
  • It's because of encouragement from evangelicals, including Michael Gerson, a former White House chief speech writer, that George W. Bush sponsored his presidential initiative to fight AIDS--the best single thing he ever did, arguably saving more than 9 million lives.†   (source)
  • We would like to see a grassroots campaign bringing together feminist organizations and evangelical churches and everyone in between, calling on the president and Congress to pass three specific initiatives.†   (source)
  • " But, under the influence of Franklin Graham (Billy Graham's son, now head of the Samaritan's Purse aid organization) and Senator Sam Brownback and many others, evangelicals and other conservative Christians have come to focus on issues like AIDS, sex trafficking, and poverty.†   (source)
  • Just as important, Pentecostalism and other conservative evangelical denominations discourage drinking and adultery, and these are both practices that have caused tremendous hardship to African women in particular.†   (source)
  • He hated bankers, labor unions, women, evangelists and the stock exchange.†   (source)
  • We've got one or two town drunks, but they're always having remorses every time an evangelist comes to town.†   (source)
  • After that he was downtown all day long, about the square, untalkative, dirty, with that furious and preclusive expression about the eyes which the people took for insanity: that quality of outworn violence like a scent, an odor; that fanaticism like a fading and almost extinct ember, of some kind of twofisted evangelism which had been one quarter violent conviction and three quarters physical hardihood.†   (source)
  • In vain a zealous evangelist with a felt hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God is great and good.†   (source)
  • Because he had no church into which to lure converts, if there should be any, Kiyoshi Tanimoto soon realized, the futility of this evangelism.†   (source)
  • He was a hook-nosed, sour-faced, gaunt individual who reminded me vaguely of Andrew Jackson or a back-country evangelist despite the white turban on his head made out of sterile towels.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gail Wynand, the evangelist.†   (source)
  • The balusters were decorated with emblems of the Four Evangelists.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXV The Little Evangelist It was Sunday afternoon.†   (source)
  • So, too, Venice; I have been there; the holy city of the blessed evangelist, St. Mark!†   (source)
  • All the law wants is the four evangelists and the Lord's prayer."†   (source)
  • Is there a copy of the Holy Evangelists in the Golden Inn, gentlemen?†   (source)
  • He rented the rather dilapidated wooden "tabernacle" in which the Reverend Mr. Billy Sunday, an evangelist, had recently wiped out all the sin in the community.†   (source)
  • The Froom waters were clear as the pure River of Life shown to the Evangelist, rapid as the shadow of a cloud, with pebbly shallows that prattled to the sky all day long.†   (source)
  • Mr. Monday, the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America, had once been a prize-fighter.†   (source)
  • But having fallen in love with him, she had become inoculated with the virus of Evangelism and proselytizing which dominated him, and had followed him gladly and enthusiastically in all of his ventures and through all of his vagaries.†   (source)
  • The evangelist was preaching "sin and redemption," the infinite grace of God and His pardon for human frailty.†   (source)
  • All cut up into verses, too; so that it is like one of the other evangelists read in a dream, when things are the same, yet not the same.†   (source)
  • He was a young, and like herself or Asa, unordained minister or evangelist of, however, far stronger and more effective temperament religiously.†   (source)
  • The one called Lucas was a mild and meek-looking little gentleman of clerical aspect; he had been an itinerant evangelist, it transpired, and had seen the light and become a prophet of the new dispensation.†   (source)
  • He admitted that he was too much the scholar and poet to imitate the evangelist, Mike Monday, yet he had once awakened his fold to new life, and to larger collections, by the challenge, "My brethren, the real cheap skate is the man who won't lend to the Lord!"†   (source)
  • Sometimes the papers, and I can only say they flatter me when they compare me with Billy Sunday, the greatest of all evangelists and Christian preachers—sometimes they claim that I'm too sensational.†   (source)
  • The newcomer was, indeed, Alec d'Urberville, the late Evangelist, despite his changed attire and aspect.†   (source)
  • An Evangelist, no less!†   (source)
  • An evangelist has nothing to do with such as they; and it reminds me of the old times that I would forget!†   (source)
  • …of the enormous interest aroused by the pitiable death of Roberta, as well as the evidence of her rich and beautiful rival, Clyde was being visited by every type of shallow crime-or-sex-curious country bumpkin lawyer, doctor, merchant, yokel evangelist or minister, all friends or acquaintances of one or another of the officials of the city, and who, standing before his cell door betimes, and at the most unexpected moments, and after surveying him with curious, or resentful, or…†   (source)
  • Some malicious persons it is true deny the identity of this reputable character with the Evangelist of old times, and even pretend to bring competent evidence of an imposture.†   (source)
  • ] I had the impression that Wilkinson's partner was named Stephen, and as Philip and Stephen were both evangelists in the Bible, I named my man Philip Nolan, on the supposition that the mother who named one son Stephen would name another Philip.†   (source)
  • Lucetta, forming the third and haloed figure, was opposite them; Elizabeth-Jane, being out of the game, and out of the group, could observe all from afar, like the evangelist who had to write it down: that there were long spaces of taciturnity, when all exterior circumstances were subdued to the touch of spoons and china, the click of a heel on the pavement under the window, the passing of a wheelbarrow or cart, the whistling of the carter, the gush of water into householders' buckets…†   (source)
  • After all, the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages; he is not an evangelist, nor does he come round eating locusts and wild honey.†   (source)
  • "If you mean to hinder everybody from having money but saints and evangelists, you must give up some profitable partnerships, that's all I can say," Mr. Vincy burst out very bluntly.†   (source)
  • They serve no purpose, as they stand thus useless round the king; they produce upon me the effect of the four Evangelists who surround the face of the big clock of the palace, and which Philippe Brille has just set in order afresh.†   (source)
  • This very neat and spacious edifice is erected on the site of the little wicket gate, which formerly, as all old pilgrims will recollect, stood directly across the highway, and, by its inconvenient narrowness, was a great obstruction to the traveller of liberal mind and expansive stomach The reader of John Bunyan will be glad to know that Christian's old friend Evangelist, who was accustomed to supply each pilgrim with a mystic roll, now presides at the ticket office.†   (source)
  • Our moods are apt to bring with them images which succeed each other like the magic-lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastness of St. Peter's, the huge bronze canopy, the excited intention in the attitudes and garments of the prophets and evangelists in the mosaics above, and the red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina.†   (source)
  • Nor even in our superstitions do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog—Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on his pallid horse.†   (source)
  • There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St. John.†   (source)
  • 'This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists,' said Don Sebastian, gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure.†   (source)
  • Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian; but may I also beg that you will be particular in procuring the largest sized Evangelists you can.†   (source)
  • Then the king was sworn upon the Four Evangelists.†   (source)
  • And there he was made to swear upon the Four Evangelists, to tell the truth of his quest from the one to the other.†   (source)
  • Thus was Gawaine sworn upon the Four Evangelists that he should never be against lady nor gentlewoman, but if he fought for a lady and his adversary fought for another.†   (source)
  • And the four that were with Him is to understand the four evangelists which set in writing a part of Jesu Christ's deeds that He did sometime when He was among you an earthly man; for wit ye well never erst ne might no knight know the truth, for ofttimes or this Our Lord showed Him unto good men and unto good knights, in likeness of an hart, but I suppose from henceforth ye shall see no more.†   (source)
  • Its owner was a middle-aged horse-faced gentleman whose name was the Reverend Wellington Hodge: he had begun life favorably in Altamont as a Methodist minister, but had run foul of trouble when he began to do double service to the Lord God of Hosts and John Barleycorn—his evangelical career came to an abrupt ending one winter's night when the streets were dumb with falling snow.†   (source)
  • He was a little early Victorian boy, brought up in the intense narrow, evangelical yet political, highly intellectual yet completely unaesthetic, Stephen family, that had one foot in Clapham, the other in Downing Street.†   (source)
  • His great commercial talent was salesmanship; he had superlatively that quality that American actors and men of business call "personality"—a wild energy, a Rabelaisian vulgarity, a sensory instinct for rapid and swinging repartee, and a hypnotic power of speech, torrential, meaningless, mad, and evangelical.†   (source)
  • Miss Drusilla Fawley was of her date, Evangelical.†   (source)
  • They are two of the few remaining Evangelical school.†   (source)
  • Cotton Mather was an evangelical minister who was born at Boston, and passed his life there.†   (source)
  • He keeps to the truth in what is evangelical.†   (source)
  • It is the army of joy, of love, of courage: it has banished the fear and remorse and despair of the old hellridden evangelical sects: it marches to fight the devil with trumpet and drum, with music and dancing, with banner and palm, as becomes a sally from heaven by its happy garrison.†   (source)
  • He hopes to see all the evangelical denominations joined in one strong body, opposing Catholicism and Christian Science, and properly guiding all movements that make for morality and prohibition.†   (source)
  • She knew every nick and brown spot on each piece of the set of china purchased by Kennicott's mother in 1895—discreet china with a pattern of washed-out forget-me-nots, rimmed with blurred gold: the gravy-boat, in a saucer which did not match, the solemn and evangelical covered vegetable-dishes, the two platters.†   (source)
  • The destiny of civilization would be decided in one final death struggle between the Red International and the Black, between Socialism and the Roman Catholic Church; while here at home, "the stygian midnight of American evangelicalism—"†   (source)
  • Henry Thompson was the extreme of insularity, and Noel Ryland the extreme of frothiness, while between them, supporting the state, defending the evangelical churches and domestic brightness and sound business, were Babbitt and his friends.†   (source)
  • He announced to Ted, "I tell you, boy, there's no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who'll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!"†   (source)
  • Tessy, are you an Evangelical?†   (source)
  • After breakfast he walked with his two brothers, non-evangelical, well-educated, hall-marked young men, correct to their remotest fibre, such unimpeachable models as are turned out yearly by the lathe of a systematic tuition.†   (source)
  • But the uncompromising Evangelical did not even now hold that he would have been justified in giving his son, an unbeliever, the same academic advantages that he had given to the two others, when it was possible, if not probable, that those very advantages might have been used to decry the doctrines which he had made it his life's mission and desire to propagate, and the mission of his ordained sons likewise.†   (source)
  • He was a man not merely religious, but devout; a firm believer—not as the phrase is now elusively construed by theological thimble-riggers in the Church and out of it, but in the old and ardent sense of the Evangelical school: one who could Indeed opine That the Eternal and Divine Did, eighteen centuries ago In very truth….†   (source)
  • A spiritual descendant in the direct line from Wycliff, Huss, Luther, Calvin; an Evangelical of the Evangelicals, a Conversionist, a man of Apostolic simplicity in life and thought, he had in his raw youth made up his mind once for all in the deeper questions of existence, and admitted no further reasoning on them thenceforward.†   (source)
  • A spiritual descendant in the direct line from Wycliff, Huss, Luther, Calvin; an Evangelical of the Evangelicals, a Conversionist, a man of Apostolic simplicity in life and thought, he had in his raw youth made up his mind once for all in the deeper questions of existence, and admitted no further reasoning on them thenceforward.†   (source)
  • Why, in defiance of every precept and principle of this house, does she conform to the world so openly — here in an evangelical, charitable establishment — as to wear her hair one mass of curls?†   (source)
  • That pamphlet is translated into Russian by some Russian philanthropists of aristocratic rank and evangelical aspirations, and has been distributed gratis for the enlightenment of the people.†   (source)
  • He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.†   (source)
  • The third is devoted to the lives and labors of the evangelical ministers who, during the same period, had the care of souls.†   (source)
  • Some of the ladies were very blue and well informed, reading Mrs. Somerville and frequenting the Royal Institution; others were severe and Evangelical, and held by Exeter Hall.†   (source)
  • Mr. Stelling's doctrine was of no particular school; if anything, it had a tinge of evangelicalism, for that was "the telling thing" just then in the diocese to which King's Lorton belonged.†   (source)
  • Is there not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all?†   (source)
  • …and, knowing how dangerous it was to contend with ignorance, uniformly endeavored to avoid dictating where his better reason taught him it was the most prudent to attempt to lead, His orthodoxy had no dependence on his cassock; he could pray with fervor and with faith, if circumstances required it, without the assistance of his clerk; and he had even been known to preach a most evangelical sermon, in the winning manner of native eloquence, without the aid of a cambric handkerchief.†   (source)
  • I'll send it over to you; and there are some other books that you may like to see, Irwine—pamphlets about Antinomianism and Evangelicalism, whatever they may be.†   (source)
  • I was, therefore, not a little surprised to hear him discuss the rights of property as an economist or a landowner might have done: he spoke of the necessary gradations which fortune establishes among men, of obedience to established laws, of the influence of good morals in commonwealths, and of the support which religious opinions give to order and to freedom; he even went to far as to quote an evangelical authority in corroboration of one of his political tenets.†   (source)
  • I know all your sisters have done for me since — for I have not been insensible during my seeming torpor — and I owe to their spontaneous, genuine, genial compassion as large a debt as to your evangelical charity.†   (source)
  • Wise and holy men, the fathers of our religion, have expended their labors in clearing what was revealed from the obscurities of language, and the results of their experience and researches have been em bodied in the form of evangelical discipline That this discipline must be salutary, is evident from the view of the weakness of human nature that we have already taken; and that it may be profitable to us, and all who listen to its precepts and its liturgy, may God, in his infinite…†   (source)
  • Hence Mr. Bulstrode's close attention was not agreeable to the publicans and sinners in Middlemarch; it was attributed by some to his being a Pharisee, and by others to his being Evangelical.†   (source)
  • This implicit reasoning is essentially no more peculiar to evangelical belief than the use of wide phrases for narrow motives is peculiar to Englishmen.†   (source)
  • And she is not in the least evangelical," said Rosamond, reflectively, as if that religious point of view would have fully accounted for perpetual crape.†   (source)
  • Mr. Thesiger, a moderate evangelical, wished for the appointment of his friend Mr. Tyke, a zealous able man, who, officiating at a chapel of ease, had not a cure of souls too extensive to leave him ample time for the new duty.†   (source)
  • The Vincys had the readiness to enjoy, the rejection of all anxiety, and the belief in life as a merry lot, which made a house exceptional in most county towns at that time, when Evangelicalism had cast a certain suspicion as of plague-infection over the few amusements which survived in the provinces.†   (source)
  • But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that tiger-yellow crew of his—these were words best omitted here; for you live under the blessed light of the evangelical land.†   (source)
  • Many people believed that Lydgate's coming to the town at all was really due to Bulstrode; and Mrs. Taft, who was always counting stitches and gathered her information in misleading fragments caught between the rows of her knitting, had got it into her head that Mr. Lydgate was a natural son of Bulstrode's, a fact which seemed to justify her suspicions of evangelical laymen.†   (source)
  • Billy Sunday, the evangelist, is a D.D. [22] /Congressional Record/, May 16, 1918, p. 7147.†   (source)
  • No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and a golden eagle from Carrantuohill.†   (source)
  • Then the king was sworn upon the Four Evangelists.†   (source)
  • But the Scope of all the Evangelists (as may appear by reading them) was the same.†   (source)
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