| Charles Dudley Warner - 1888 - 350 páginas
...did give a business aspect to the place at the time ; and we had been the light spots in the evening service at the most aristocratic church of color....the church, its Dorcas society, or some occasion of religious sociability. The raising of funds appeared to be the burden on the preacher's mind. Two collections... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1888 - 346 páginas
...sexton ; it was three quarters of an hour before *he congregation began to saunter in, and the sernlon was nearly over before the pews were at all filled....the church, its Dorcas society, or some occasion of religious sociability. The raising of funds appeared to be the burden on the preacher's mind. Two collections... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1904 - 444 páginas
...the appointed time nobody was there except the sexton ; it was three quarters of an hour before the congregation began to saunter in, and the sermon was...the church, its Dorcas society, or some occasion of religious sociability. The raising of funds appeared to be the burden on the preacher's mind. Two collections... | |
| 1885 - 940 páginas
...the appointed time nobody was there except the sexton ; it was three quarters of an hour before the oZ c ɿ }/ ν 7 Y ~ ' x C_ { _ x q... ޯ 3 }E ӟxғ n<Y C e { ߆ nE xY jjY d J a G 8 *bo ( religious sociability. The raising of funds appeared to be the burden on the preacher's mind. Two collections... | |
| 1885 - 888 páginas
...the appointed time nobody was there except the sexton ; it was three quarters of an hour before the congregation began to saunter in, and the sermon was...meetings, its literary or social gathering, its picnic 1885.] On Horseback. or fair for the benefit of the church, its Dorcas society, or some occasion of... | |
| 1885 - 1084 páginas
...the appointed time nobody was there except the sexton ; it was three quarters of an hour before the congregation began to saunter in, and the sermon was...there was not an evening or afternoon that had not its meetinga, its literary or social gathering, its picnic 1885.] or fair for the benefit of the church,... | |
| 1885 - 896 páginas
...from the " Amen corner." The sermon contained the usual vivid description of the last jurlgmentfth, and I fancied that the congregation did not get the...the church, its Dorcas society, or some occasion of religious sociability. The raising of funds appeared to be the burden on the preacher's mind. Two collections... | |
| William E. Montgomery - 1995 - 380 páginas
...during a worship service he visited in Virginia, "it occupied the minister a long time to give out notices of the week, and there was not an evening...the church, its Dorcas society, or some occasion of religious sociability." Literary and debate societies were often associated with churches, and they... | |
| 1885 - 940 páginas
...the appointed time nobody was there except the sexton ; it was three quarters of an hour before the congregation began to saunter in, and the sermon was...picnic or fair for the benefit of the church, its Dorcaa society, or some occasion of religious sociability. The raising of funds appeared to be the... | |
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