I got an email today from a friend seeking advice for a fellow church-member who has grandchildren literally all over the globe, including in Europe and Africa. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I am a father and a husband and a business owner and a friend and a church-member and several other things. ❋ Unknown (2006)
They were so starved that Nicholas Upsall, a Puritan church-member, bribed the jailer with five shillings a week to allow him to bring food to them. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)
Addison was ostensibly a church-member, a model citizen; he represented a point of view to which Cowperwood would never have stooped. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Liele's statements concerning himself, therefore, that he became a member of Matthew Moore's church at the close of the year 1774, or the beginning of 1775, but was converted at the end of the year 1773, and let a whole year, or nearly so, pass before becoming a church-member. ❋ Various (N/A)
The use of wigs also, at first denounced by the clergy, was at last countenanced by them: in portraits later than 1700 they usually replace the black skull-cap of earlier pictures, and in 1752 the tables had so far turned that a church-member in Newbury refused communion because "the pastor wears a wigg." ❋ Various (N/A)
Sam Amos used to say -- Sam wasn't a church-member himself -- that there was some advantages about bein 'a Babtist after all; you did have to go under the water, but then you had the right to grumble. ❋ Eliza Calvert Hall (N/A)
'Brother,' said his fellow church-member, as he gently nudged his arm. ❋ William H. Armstrong (N/A)
This gives us an idea of the radical change that must take place before a person can become a true church-member. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It teaches that _each_ church-member is to give _weekly, according to his ability_. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A certain Mr. Downcast, who was a church-member and had just come from the top of the tower, visited this fortune teller, and by her descriptions of his happy future on the Broad Highway he was induced to travel thereon at once. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"Fancy's Show-Box," Hawthorne seizes the prolific idea; and the respectable merchant and respected church-member, in the still hour of his own meditation, convicts himself of being a liar, cheat, thief, seducer, and murderer, as he casts his glance over the mental events which form his spiritual biography. ❋ Various (N/A)
JOHN FREEMAN, a free colored man, seized in Indianapolis, and claimed as the slave of Pleasant Ellington, a Methodist church-member, (Summer, 1853,) of Missouri. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
Could God hold her, rigorous church-member, fond wife and mother as she was, guilty of this boy's blood? ❋ Various (N/A)
A breathless silence followed until a moderate-drinking church-member arose with Bible in hand. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Satan, under a hellish guise, offered to give, even before death, handsome rewards to any church-member who succeeds in carrying a certain amount of the world with him on his way to Heaven, and multitudes were trying the experiment. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It is always worse for a church-member to do an immoral act, and teach an immoral sentiment, than for an immoral man, because it does greater mischief. ❋ American Tract Society (N/A)
Perhaps this church-member was disposed to write bitter things against herself because she did not feel all that warmth in religion which marked the conduct of those who, at that time, were indulging the hope that they had passed from death to life. ❋ Dr. John Scudder (N/A)
And that would seem to be the attitude of the present-day Anglican church-member; he calls in the best physician he knows, he makes sure that his plumbing is sound, and after that he thinks it can do no harm to let the Lord have a chance. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
