When we reached the church an "exhorter" was just concluding a dull sermon. ❋ Charles Buckles (1960)
A young negro belonging to an officer in one of the regiments was sent home, and his place as cook was filled by Uncle Cage, a venerable looking old negro, who held the distinguished post of "exhorter" in the neighborhood. ❋ D. Augustus Dickert (N/A)
Abram was a man of medium size, tall, dark chestnut color, and could read and write a little and was quite intelligent; "was a member of the Mount Zion Church," and occasionally officiated as an "exhorter," and really appeared to be a man of genuine faith in the Almighty, and equally as much in freedom. ❋ William Still (N/A)
After six or seven years service as an "exhorter" he united with the Baptist church and was ordained to the ministry by the Rev.Messrs. Broaddus, Cruikshank and Eubank. ❋ Unknown (1924)
Sometime after, having been commissioned by the local church as an "exhorter," still later, he was commissioned by Bishop Allen to make a visitation of the churches on the Eastern Shore. ❋ George Freeman (1914)
In fact, Priscilla trembled lest Mr. Boreas, the stern, hard-featured "exhorter," should have been invited to lead. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
At Vanessa Miller's church in Dayton, Ohio, a woman known as an "exhorter" greets worshippers with encouraging comments like, "You know you're blessed, right?" or "God's got something good in store for you, just wait and see." ❋ Unknown (2010)
"exhorter" was about to become mercilessly personal and vindictive - "God Almighty is the present ruler of the universe, but sence you have set up to run ag'in 'Him it looks like you'd need a wider scope of territory to transact business in than jest heer in this settlement." ❋ Unknown (1900)
We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The exhorter would have to reply: “Because you ought to do what [is likely to] have the best results [according to some contextually specified standard of goodness].” ❋ Pigden, Charles (2007)
An exhorter — a secret preacher — one, who in defiance of all the tenets and processes of organized and historic, as well as hieratic, religious powers and forms (theological seminaries, organized churches and their affiliations and product — all carefully and advisedly and legitimately because historically and dogmatically interpreting the word of God) choosing to walk forth and without ordination after any fashion conduct an unauthorized and hence nondescript mission. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Oh, Parson Tanner is a right good exhorter, no doubt; but when it comes to paying him anything, let someone else do it. ❋ Carol Ryrie Brink (2000)
Among those ungrateful, restless fiends of the 1881 breakout, who only awaited a plausible excuse to flee, was Geronimo, not a chieftain, but an adviser; not a leader in war, but an exhorter; not a captain who exposed himself in battle, but the sly and vicious inciter of rebellion and bloodshed. ❋ David Roberts (1994)
How can he know what was missing from Styron's nineteenth-century exhorter if he has not known his twentieth-century counterparts? ❋ Harding, Vincent (1968)
Mr. Randall, a Methodist exhorter is here tonight. ❋ Unknown (1957)
He wasn't an exhorter of virtue, but he made of clean living and noble service such a fascinating objective that people went to work on their own problems with fresh faith. ❋ Warren Crocker Herrick (N/A)
If anybody had suggested to him that there were nations which no treaty could bind, he would have answered, in the style of the prayer-meeting exhorter, "Ah! I have a higher faith in human nature." ❋ Various (N/A)
I am being exhorted [to tell] you that you are [bad] at [drawing]. ❋ Hanasakurou (2016)
The girl told the [lawyer] about her [adultery] as if it was an exhortation and the lawyer [mocked] her for it. ❋ Skater218 (2007)
He exhorted his people to take back their [land]. She exhorted her listeners to [support] the [proposition]. ❋ Learn Something (2022)
