Use "presbyteria" in a sentence

1. In Scotland, the most extensive country in which this presbyterian form of church government has ever been established, the rights of patronage were in effect abolished by the act which established presbytery in the beginning of the reign of William III

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2. In all the presbyterian churches, where the rights of patronage are thoroughly established, it is by nobler and better arts, that the established clergy in general endeavour to gain the favour of their superiors; by their learning, by the irreproachable regularity of their life, and by the faithful and diligent discharge of their duty

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3. There is scarce, perhaps, to be found anywhere in Europe, a more learned, decent, independent, and respectable set of men, than the greater part of the presbyterian clergy of Holland, Geneva, Switzerland, and Scotland

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4. The presbyterian clergy, accordingly, have more influence over the minds of the common people, than perhaps the clergy of any other established church

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5. It is, accordingly, in presbyterian countries only, that we ever find the common people converted, without persecution completely, and almost to a man, to the established church

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6. The cultivation of madder was, for a long time, confined by the tythe to the United Provinces, which, being presbyterian countries, and upon that account exempted from this destructive tax, enjoyed a sort of monopoly of that useful dyeing drug against the rest of Europe

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7. served as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church of

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8. Large numbers of the congregation have meanwhile left Larbert Old and Dundee: Logie and St John’s Cross (to form a Grace Church in both cases) and also St James Broughty Ferry (to form Brought Ferry Presbyterian Church)

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9. In recent times, even the smaller strict Presbyterian traditions, the Free Church and the Free Presbyterian Church (who, to outsiders seemed as alike as Tweedledum and Tweddledee) have had their splits, including spats and lawsuits over property

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10. In 1900 most of the Free Church chose to unite with the United Presbyterians, with whom they actually had less in common than the Church of Scotland, to form the United Free Church

11. Nevertheless, in 2014 we seem to have as many Presbyterian denominations as ever

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12. By a strange accident of history, the Presbyterian Church in Scotland adopted the Westminster Confession of Faith in the seventeenth century

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13. It is (to me) surprising that some of those who are in the process of leaving the Kirk seem to be perfectly at ease at the possibility of joining another Presbyterian tradition that accepts the Westminster Confession without the protection of any conscience clause

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14. Indeed, in some of the stricter Presbyterian traditions an outsider looking in could be forgiven for thinking that the Confession is their chief authority and that the Bible is the subordinate standard

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15. Like it or not, the Presbyterian system, which has served us very well in the past, may itself be moving towards its sell-by date

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16. I have already suggested (with genuine regret) that the Presbyterian system, already fragmented and likely to further division, has had its day

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17. One of the cries often made is that without a functioning Presbyterian system, there will be no proper church discipline

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18. ’ They were often Quakers and Methodists and Presbyterians

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19. "I'd hate to think the Methodists were better at going to Sunday School on rainy Sundays than the Presbyterians

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20. Mary the next evening and the Presbyterian Church was crowded with people from near and far

21. But we Presbyterians feel it

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22. She had once remarked to Rosemary that she would really like to have a talk with that Presbyterian minister at the Glen, to see if he could find a word to say to a woman when he was cornered

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23. The Methodists just laugh and laugh at you, and that hurts the Presbyterian feelings

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24. Elliott says it is, She says manse children have no business to go anywhere but to Presbyterian things

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25. I do pity the Presbyterians

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26. And I would have said, for another, that the Presbyterians did not feel greatly in need of pity seeing that they had a minister who could PREACH and the Methodists had NOT

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27. and the Girls Sewing Society, and include in the audience all and any Methodists who have been criticizing the Merediths--although I do think if we Presbyterians stopped criticizing and excusing we would find that other denominations would trouble themselves very little about our manse folks

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28. You Methodists need not pity us, and we Presbyterians need not pity ourselves

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29. The vehicles stopped at the town Presbyterian Church

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30. There was fear that some denomination, the Presbyterians in particular, would gain sufficient political support in the Congress provided for in the new Constitution to establish itself as the official religion of the new nation

31. Two years later, a woman in the Presbyterian Church in Gautier that we had joined after I was thrown out of the Methodist church by the pastor, Brother Howard Lips, found us a house on the Hickory Hills Country Club farther north on same road north of U

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32. Mary Murphy, the realtor who sold us our house on the 17th hole of the HHGC, was a member of the Gautier Presbyterian Church, not much farther east on US 90

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33. Andrew Presbyterian church who shopped and ran errands for me

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34. One model was the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, which gave overall power to a Synod

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35. He instructed editors to substitute expressions like people of the Jewish faith or simply Jews, which he felt subtly conveyed the notion that being Jewish was something one could freely choose, like being Methodist or a Presbyterian

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36. He was a faithful Presbyterian, not only as a ruling elder, but also an usher, frequently passing the collection plate

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37. Not a Bible-thumper, but he certainly paid his dues at the Presbyterian Church

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38. Our family chartered a private plane staffed by a nurse to fly him from Ithaca to the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, while we followed in another plane

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39. A memorial service was held at the First Presbyterian Church at 1 pm, Friday, October 29, 1993, in Ithaca

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40. ” These confirm my father was a religious man, aside from the years he spent as an elder and president of the trustees of the First Presbyterian Church

41. In addition to his work with the Presbyterian Church in Ithaca, he also received the Ethel Nestell Forner Writer and Community Award from St

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42. Andrews (Presbyterian) College in Laurinburg, North Carolina, in 1991

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43. Paul was the Catholic church and JC Presbyterian was the Protestant church

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44. I always thought he was a Presbyterian

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45. By 1907, The Presbyterian Church (PCUS) had control of Montreat by virtue of their large conference center and in 1983 the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) and the United Presbyterian Church in America (UPCUSA) merged and became the Presbyterian Church (U

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46. This occurred while a recital was about to begin at Grace Presbyterian Church with Marian and others from the National Association of Negro Musicians

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47. He enrolled in Hampton (Institute) University in 188032 and left for Africa as a Presbyterian missionary in 1890

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48. For instance, about 10 years before my grandfather arrived in Africa, William Sheppard, an African-American Presbyterian missionary, had already exposed Belgium’s violent exploitation of Congo natives

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49. My friend eventually became a minister in the Presbyterian Church, so he is still a preacher of the faith

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50. Presbyterian church strike two and dumped it into the story without

51. Two men who served as carpenter and electrician for the building of the new, and strikingly beautiful, local Presbyterian church did the electrical wiring and inner insulation and paneling for the monastic oratory

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52. The Scotch Presbyterians, the English Nonconformists, the American Episcopalians, the Colonial Episcopalians, all realize the importance of this principle, and take care to carry it out

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53. The first time I ever got to pray for somebody, I was on staff at a Presbyterian Church – yeah, they're not really into all that - but I was on staff, and there was this lady who had MS

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54. My first encounter with a demon, I was 19 years old, and it was at the Presbyterian Church, and I was the only one in the room that they thought knew what to do

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55. ” The Presbyterian Policeman rested his hand on the butt of his holstered gun, clicking the popper in emphasis

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56. His mother placed him and his brother into the Salvation Army Boys’ Home in Adelaide and then the Presbyterian Homes in Sydney

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57. at the Presbyterian Church and join in with the ceremony

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58. She was Presbyterian; he, Lutheran

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59. At the close of the 18th century, Irish Presbyterians who remained in Ireland would lead a

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60. Those Irish Presbyterians

61. With his fate sealed, Ronald Reagan sits in a pew at the Bel Air Presbyterian Church

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62. Bryan, a devout Presbyterian, argued against the practice

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63. soon the lamplighter would be going his rounds past the presbyterian church grounds and along by shady Tritonville avenue where the couples walked and lighting the lamp near her window where Reggy Wylie used to turn his freewheel like she read in that book The Lamplighter by Miss Cummins, author of Mabel Vaughan and other tales

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64. They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends

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65. In the fall of 1996, in an office in the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, a telephone rang

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66. He was staunchly Presbyterian, even though his family that of her marrying Gerald O’Hara

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67. Wolfshiem look-ing at the Presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling

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68. She had been the one big act of rebellion Daddy, from two long lines of Presbyterians, had ever managed: Kathryn Hébert, a New Orleans-born Catholic

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69. This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manuscript and wound up with a sermon so destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize

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70. Before his death, he supposedly confided to his Presbyterian minister, Dr

71. After calming her down, he convinced her to allow him to take her to another hospital, Columbia University– Presbyterian

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72. At about five ’o clock that afternoon, Marilyn was admitted to the Neurological Institute of the Columbia University–Presbyterian Hospital, where she would remain for more than three weeks, until March 5

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73. I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church

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74. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship

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75. I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these subjects

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76. All our arguing with him would not avail; let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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77. The Church as a church, whether it be Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, or Presbyterian, or any denomination whatsoever, inasmuch as it is a church, cannot help striving after the same object as the Russian Church—namely, to conceal the true meaning of the doctrine of Christ, and to substitute a meaning of its own, which imposes no obligations, which excludes the possibility of understanding the true, living doctrine of Christ, and which above all justifies the existence of a priesthood living at the expense of the people

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78. (a) Resolved, that we express our satisfaction at the formal and official overtures of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, addressed to the highest representatives of each church organization in Christendom, inviting the same to unite with itself in a general conference, the object of which shall be to promote the substitution of international arbitration for war

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79. “Why, I thought you were a devoted Presbyterian,” said I, recalling how in their Brooklyn days she used to insist on Joe’s going with her twice every Sunday to sleep through long sermons

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80. John Hall, the famous Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, contributes to it, as current topics on which he wishes to address the public arise

81. Representatives from the Presbyterian Foreign and Domestic Missionary Boards, the Baptist Home Mission Society, the several Yearly Meetings of Friends, the American Board, the American Missionary Association, and the Unitarian Association, were present

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82. McVicar, a college president from Montreal, warned us of the Jesuits, with an earnestness such as, perhaps, only a good Scotch Presbyterian could feel

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83. After the close of his sermon, at the Central Presbyterian Church here, while recounting to the audience the many things of interest he had enjoyed in their city, he remarked that he had recently visited most of the universities of Europe, and added that nothing in Atlanta, or the great universities abroad, had interested him so heartily as their Atlanta University

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84. Oviatt, whose missionary labors among the Chinese at San Leandro were attended with so rich a blessing, is now acting pastor of the Presbyterian church at Visalia

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85. That National Home Missionary Society had all along borne more or less of testimony against slave-holding; but when, in 1857, it passed a rule by which all of its fifty-five Southern Presbyterian missionaries were dropped from its list, then no one could question the soundness of its position

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86. The English missionary societies occupy the Hong Kong field in force, and the Presbyterian Board have missionaries in the Canton district, from which the Chinese immigrants come to our Western coast

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87. A venerable Presbyterian pastor in the State of New York, who had himself previously made a generous donation in aid of our work, writes a second time as follows: “After reading the account of your work on page 150 of the May number of The American Missionary, at our missionary meeting, last evening, an Indian came forward and handed me fifty cents for your mission, with tears in his eyes

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88. This number could, of course, be greatly swelled by the figures which could be shown by the Congregationalists, Baptists and Presbyterians, who for these many years have been laboring with equal patience, zeal and love, for the advancement of mankind

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