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Sentences ending with congregation

She stood with tightened lips, during the Apostles' Creed, listening to his voice as it rose, strong and unfaltering, above the murmur of the congregation. [9]
I wonder if that's the reason the Parson finds it so difficult to get hold of his congregation. [4]
He had more than a little admiration for Charley Steele, but he found it difficult to preach when Charley was in the congregation. [11]
When the organ sounded, and through a low door in the chancel the priest entered, preceded by a couple of acolytes, and advanced swiftly to the reading-desk, there was an awed hush in the congregation. [4]
Without a church or a pulpit, he soon had a congregation. [6]
It seemed to oppress the congregation. [9]
The first day of his return his heart was smitten by the thinness of the congregation. [4]
You know her, of course, since she is a member of your congregation. [9]
A few moments later the brazen gong was heard--muffled out of regard for the sick--which announced the hour of prayer to the little congregation. [10]
Agapitus the Cappadocian had in his youth been a warrior; he had hardly passed the limits of middle age, and was a vigilant captain of his congregation. [10]

Sentences containing congregation two or more times

The congregation had a striking resemblance to a country New England congregation of say twenty years ago. [4]

More example sentences with the word congregation in them

He wasn't charged with saying it in the pulpit, where all the congregation could hear and testify, but only outside, in talk; and it is easy for enemies to manufacture that. [5]
On the Sundays when the heathen prevailed she studied the congregation, grew to distinguish the local country families; and, if the truth must be told, watched for several Sundays for that ugly yet handsome young man whom she had seen on horseback. [9]
If, after all, what is now sought is to have me put Dr. McPheeters back over the heads of a majority of his own congregation, that, too, will be declined. [7]
All the lights were turned low, so low that the congregation sat in a deep and solemn gloom. [5]
And then there was darkness and blindness, and he stood once more before his congregation, speaking words that sounded hollow, hearing responses that mocked him, stared at by accusing eyes that knew him for a hypocrite. [4]
The whole congregation waited, under one pretext or another, till she finished her dinner and went out; they wanted to see her at full altitude, and they found it worth tarrying for. [5]
Paulina did not wait for her reply, but signed to Hannah to follow her to join the congregation now assembled at the evening meal. [10]
But just what--in view of his past strict orthodoxy and limited congregation --Mr. Engel meant, he could not have said. [9]
I once went to a church in London and heard the famous Edward Irving preach, and heard some of his congregation speak in the strange words characteristic of their miraculous gift of tongues. [6]
In one of these villages we passed a church, its doors flung open; the congregation was singing a familiar hymn. [9]
Let me sweeten these closing paragraphs of an essay not meaning to hold a word of bitterness with a passage or two from the lay-preacher who is listened to by a larger congregation than any man who speaks from the pulpit. [6]
The eyes of the whole congregation were on him, and he could feel the guilt ooze out of his burning face. [4]
It was of the same Psalms, but the congregation chanted them in a wild and weird tone and manner, as wailing and barbarous to modern ears as any Highland devotional outburst of two centuries ago. [4]
At eight o'clock, the priests were chanting vespers to a larger congregation than many churches have on Sunday: their voices were rich and musical, and, joined with the organ notes, floated sweetly and impressively through the dim and vast interior. [4]
His congregation, for the most part, were not analytical. [9]
By and by the congregation will get ahead of him, and then it must, have another new skipper. [6]
Every face in the congregation was eager, and some were mystified, even anxious. [11]
There were, in the congregation of St. John's, a few people of moderate means whose houses or apartments the rector visited; people to whom modern life was increasingly perplexing. [9]
I never saw the congregation more devout, than when the beautiful and deeply-felt song of praise was sung at the feast of the stairs. [10]
On Sunday last the congregation came together as usual. [6]
At several of the chapels, services were being conducted; and there was a large congregation, an ordinary church full, about each of them. [4]
And Hodder's eye, sweeping over the decorous congregation, grew to recognize certain landmarks: Eldon Parr, rigid at one end of his empty pew; little Everett Constable, comfortably, but always pompously settled at one end of his, his white-haired and distinguished-looking wife at the other. [9]
The elders had still much to discuss, so Hannah and Paulina were charged with the task of appealing to the hearts of the well-to-do members of the congregation to provide for the orphans. [10]
The church was soon filled with a quiet and orderly congregation of decently dressed and modest people. [5]
Perhaps there was something in the priestly dress that affected not only the congregation in the chapel, but all the neighborhood in which Father Damon lived. [4]
The passengers were silent, and appeared to take the matter seriously--a sort of linen-duster congregation, of the class who figure in the homely dialect poems of the Northern bards, Mrs. Farquhar said. [4]
He was a seminary student, he was ordained, he was taking his vows before the bishop, he was a robust and consecrated priest performing his first service, shining, it seemed to him, before the congregation in the purity of his separation from the world. [4]
There was a rustling of dresses, and the standing congregation sat down. [5]
Even if a respectable number remain in your congregation, after this excitement and publicity have died down, I have reason to know that it is impossible to support a large city church on contributions. [9]
It becomes a question of casuistry with a clergyman whether he may shoot at a mark on Sunday, if none of his congregation are present. [4]
Then my friend put it into a sermon and went before his Sunday morning congregation with it. [5]
It is a proof of the high regard in which the estimable and gifted lady who shares her husband's labors is held by the people of their congregation, and the friends who share in their feelings. [6]
The wagon of one--of their own congregation was in splinters, a man (a farmer of the neighbourhood) lying among the alders with what seemed a mortal injury. [9]
At the sight of this tiny congregation something stirred within her. [9]
But the adults of the congregation appeared to be perfectly satisfied with it; at least they sat bolt upright and nodded assent continually. [4]
But the sight of that congregation this morning, mixed as it was, and the way he managed to weld it together. [9]
If the gallery of portraits of the congregation of St. John's were to be painted, this lady's, at the age of thirty, would not be the least interesting. [9]
Nor did others of his congregation escape. [9]
This congregation could not sing, but it could grind the Psalms of David powerfully. [4]
The congregation was not proportioned to the size of the great edifice. [6]
In this task no teacher of the congregation should assist her. [10]
Think what it must have been to wake up in the midst of that voiceless hush, and, look out over that grim congregation of the dead! [5]
Some of the more censorious members of her father's congregation were severe in their remarks upon her absorption in the supreme object of her care. [6]
The congregation became more and more moved, as the pathetic tale went on, till at last the whole company broke down and joined the weeping mourners in a chorus of anguished sobs, the preacher himself giving way to his feelings, and crying in the pulpit. [5]
It is not merely unnecessary, it is generally painful; for the average clergyman could not fire into his congregation with a shotgun and hit a worse reader than himself, unless the weapon scattered shamefully. [5]
I understand perfectly, McCrae, that the promulgation alone of the liberal orthodoxy of which I have spoken will bring me into conflict with the majority of the vestry and the congregation, and that the bishop will be appealed to. [9]
The rector had listened to her, at first with amazement, then with more complicated sensations as she thus dispassionately discussed the foremost member of his congregation and the first layman of the diocese, who was incidentally her own father. [9]
The congregation have left the church, and I must close it on account of our beautiful new vessels and the heathen robbers. [10]
We had to keep the congregation off with the revolver, or they would 'a' took a hand in the proceedings and helped. [5]
The old man joined loudly and devoutly in the psalm which the rest of the congregation were singing; his voice had lost its freshness, no doubt, but he sang in perfect tune. [10]
Subsequently he held it in almost solitary control, because other members of the congregation, feeling his repugnance to companionship, gave him the isolation he wished. [11]
The congregation stirred in their seats, for they saw that the Cure intended Parpon to go. [11]
The congregation gathered in a half-circle round their peaceful brethren, and heard the blessing that their pastor pronounced over the noble victims who had shed their blood in fighting the heathen. [10]
It was equally impossible that he could continue his ministrations over a congregation which held to the ordinance he wished to give up entirely. [6]
His bereaved congregation immediately began pulling candidates on and off, like new boots, on trial. [6]
It seemed as if we had taken care to select the finest-looking people in the congregation,--much to the injury of the congregation, of course, as seen from the platform. [4]
What I deplore, Hodder, is that you've contrived to make a hornets' nest out of the most peaceful and contented congregation in America. [9]
Judge E. Rockwood Hoar remained by the coffin below, and when the congregation became quiet, made a brief and pathetic address, his voice many times trembling with emotion. [6]
She could now hear the deep tones of the head of the Church of Alexandria, and understood that the matter in hand was the readmission into this congregation of a man who had been turned out by some other sect. [10]
And he could hear the congregation as well as they could hear him. [4]
Of this mixture he first partook, and then gave it in a spoon to each member of the congregation who came up to receive it. [10]
One, in the handwriting of Deacon Soper, was from a member of this congregation, returning thanks for his preservation through a season of great peril, supposed to be the exposure which he had shared with others, when standing in the circle around Dick Veneer. [6]
Considering that only half of the congregation could understand the preacher, its behavior was exemplary. [4]
Or if I had a cudgel between my teeth instead of a tongue, I would exercise it on you till it was as tired as that of a preacher who has threshed his empty straw to his congregation for three mortal hours. [10]
Congregational singing is good (for those who like it) when the congregation can sing. [4]
With Clingman and Gibbs and Holdback peaks near at hand and apparently of equal height, Mitchell seemed only a part and not separate from the mighty congregation of giants. [4]
A congregation could get tired of even Mrs. Eddy's muse in the course of time, without the cordializing incentive of compulsion. [5]
It was a genuine relief to the whole congregation when the ordeal was over and the benediction pronounced. [5]
The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery. [5]
The bells rang for meeting, but the little household at The Poplars did not add to the congregation that day. [6]
He could speak for himself and for a number of people in the congregation when he reiterated his opinion that they were honestly shocked at what Mr. Hodder had preached, and that this was his sole motive in requesting Mr. Hodder to resign. [9]
He represented the faith as delivered to the saints, and he spoke for those in the congregation to whom it was precious. [9]
The Reverend Chauncy Fairweather's congregation was not large, but select. [6]
Congratulations on the fact that his congregation was increasing brought him little comfort, since a cold analysis of the newcomers who were renting pews was in itself an indication of the lack of that thing he so vainly sought. [9]
She can summarily expel from his or her place any Reader, at home or abroad, by a mere letter of dismissal, over her signature, and without furnishing any reason for it, to either the congregation or the Reader. [5]
He did not do this; but he stood up before his looking-glass and parted his hair as carefully as if he had been separating the saints of his congregation from the sinners, to send the list to the statistical columns of a religious newspaper. [6]
And in this desire he represented the men in that room, and the majority of the congregation of St. John's. [9]
The controversy therefore continues, for the book still makes its appeal to an ever increasing congregation of new readers. [11]
As the "sold" congregation trooped out they said they would almost be willing to be made ridiculous again to hear Old Hundred sung like that once more. [5]
In that little company gathered in the choir room were certain members of his congregation whom, had he taken thought, he would least have expected to see. [9]
If a man can tell me a fact which subtends an appreciable angle in the horizon of thought, I am as receptive as the contribution-box in a congregation of colored brethren. [6]
She strove to calm herself by prayer: but the glances of a congregation focussed between her shoulder-blades seemed to burn her back, and the thought of the concentration of so many minds upon her distracted her own. [9]
Then we heard benches scraping on the floor, and the congregation began to file out. [9]
It might have been expected, therefore, that soon after civil liberty had been established there would be conflicts between the traditional, authority of the minister and the claims of the now free and independent congregation. [6]
It would have been all right if there had been a choir there, for choirs usually need more preaching, and pay less heed to it, than any other part of the congregation. [4]
The congregation would be perfectly sure to get tired; in fact, did get tired--hence the compulsory By-law. [5]
The hymn died away, the congregation sat down. [9]
His excuse for attending these dinners, which indeed were relaxing and enjoyable, he found in the obvious duty of getting to know the most important members of his congregation. [9]
The By-law named at the head of this paragraph reads its transgressor out of the Church if he shall carry a letter from Mrs. Eddy to the congregation and forget to read it or fail to read the whole of it. [5]
He would lecture any time in a colored church, when he would as likely as not refuse point-blank to speak for a white congregation. [5]
A lively, wholesome, and encouraging discourse, such as it would do many a forlorn New England congregation good to hear. [6]
He preached to an egregious congregation. [5]
Somebody in the Amen corner struck up a tune that had no end, but a mighty power of setting the congregation in motion. [4]
That afternoon, as Alison sat motionless on a distant hillside of the Park, gazing across the tree-dotted, rolling country to the westward, she recalled the breathless silence in the church when he had reached this point and paused, looking down at the congregation. [9]
The bride fetched a swoop with her fingers from one end of the keyboard to the other, just to get her bearings, as it were, and you could see the congregation set their teeth with the agony of it. [5]
Then there was a little stir among the works, as there is in a congregation as it rises to receive the benediction. [6]

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