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Example sentences for "divine service"

  • Its shape was that of a triangle, each side of which formed a long hall, one for boys, the other for girls; there was a gallery at the extreme end of the girls' hall which the choir occupied during divine service.

  • The same privilege was granted by the Greek church to the Russians, who speak the Sclavonian language; and they perform, to this day, as well as the Moravians, Divine service in their native language.

  • Divine service to be performed in the Sclavonic language, which is noticed by Bower, vol.

  • Ardently as I aspire for the moment of our meeting, I must delay going on shore until after the performance of divine service in this ship:[22] and I know this arrangement will have your full concurrence.

  • At eleven o'clock the ship's company was, as usual, assembled for the purpose of Divine service.

  • We have signals to denote that the ship's companies will have time for dinner or breakfast; why should there not be one to signify that they will have time for the performance of Divine service?

  • Him, humility and constant prayer, if lastly no ceremony has any worth, then there can be no ‘Divine Service’ in the true sense of the term.

  • But without any Provocation, that I know of, she has of late shunned me with the utmost Abhorrence, insomuch that she went out of Church last Sunday in the midst of Divine Service, upon my coming into the same Pew.

  • But as you have been very severe upon the Behaviour of us Men at Divine Service, I hope you will not be so apparently partial to the Women, as to let them go wholly unobserved.

  • These are often pretty Classical Scholars, and would think it an unpardonable Sin to read Virgil or Martial with so little Taste as they do Divine Service.

  • The ordinary remarks that divers of the priests and clerks spent the time of Divine service in taverns and ale-houses, and in fishing and "other trifles.

  • The monthly meetings of the society are preceded by divine service in the chapel, which is in the rear of the house in Crane Court.

  • That the Knights attend, Morning and Afternoon, Divine Service, within the College, in their ordinary Apparel, without a reasonable Let to be allowed by the Governour.

  • They are obliged to be present in the Choir at Divine Service as well as the Petty Canons, and under the same Forfeitures; nor may they or the Petty Canons go out of Town above Three at once, lest the Choir should be left unprovided.

  • They are every Day (excepting Cause of Sickness) to be present at Divine Service in the College, as aforesaid, and receive a daily Distribution of 12 d.

  • Defn: A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.

  • The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service.

  • Defn: A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church.

  • Defn: A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service.

  • On the evening of the Black Friday, as it was called, on which they were committed, they reached their prison just at the hour of divine service.

  • He took a roundabout way along the edge of the forest; for he knew that the Siegwart family would be at divine service, and he did not wish to arrive at the house a moment before the time.

  • At any rate, this much is certain: with the abolition of chair-rent in the churches the attendance at divine service, and consequently the religious sentiment, might be greatly stimulated.

  • By an order in council he subsequently commanded that this paper should be read on two successive Sundays at the time of divine service by the officiating ministers of all the churches and chapels of the kingdom.

  • And in like manner he requires and expects of all officers and soldiers, not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine service, to implore the blessing of Heaven upon the means used for our safety and defence.

  • He issued the following order, also, to the army: "Divine service is to be performed to-morrow in the several brigades and divisions.

  • The necessity thereof is to do divine service, to help the curate, and minister the Sacraments, having 3000 houseling people.

  • The necessity thereof is to do divine service according to the foundation.

  • For example, the chantry of St. Katherine in the parish church of Selby: “The necessity thereof is to do divine service, and help the parish priest in time of necessity to minister sacraments and sacramentals and other divine services.

  • Would you tell me what you mean by divine service, for I think you must use the phrase in some different sense from what I have been accustomed to?

  • Talk not of public worship as divine service; it is a mockery.

  • Performance of Divine Service, including the Administration of the Sacraments, Preaching and Catechising; (iii.

  • One canon enjoins them to present to the ordinary those guilty of notorious crimes and scandals, hinderers of the Word of God, disturbers of Divine Service, and non-communicants at Easter.

  • Other Canons refer to their duties in not allowing loiterers near the Church in time of Divine Service, in providing bread and wine for the Holy Communion, and marking those who present themselves at the Lord's Table.

  • Scripture appointed to be read in divine service: that which a pupil learns at a time: a precept or doctrine inculcated: instruction derived from experience: severe lecture.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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