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Example sentences for "pastor"

Lexicographically close words:
pastils; pastime; pastimes; pasting; pastophori; pastoral; pastorale; pastoralist; pastoralists; pastorall
  1. That dear pastor of ours is just ripening for a better world!

  2. The pastor was busy, just then, with a visitor.

  3. In the church, Rico heard the pastor when he read out, "The deceased was called Henrico Trevillo, and was a native of Peschiera on the Lake of Garda.

  4. Then the pastor made his appearance, and Otto had to explain why it was his business to bring the papers, and what the teacher was doing at present.

  5. Otto," called out the teacher on Friday, as the clock struck four, "take this paper over to the pastor as quickly as you can.

  6. He was determined to go at once to the pastor to complain of him and of his whole family, and demand that Wiseli should be taken away from them at once.

  7. I was much interested during the dessert by the evident tenderness of the pastor for Helen's mother.

  8. At this she turned to the pastor with a frightened manner, and said,-- "What do you say to this?

  9. I could come too, for the pastor makes much of everyone who loves his niece.

  10. Next morning when I awoke, a pastor of the Church of Geneva came to ask me to give him a place in my carriage.

  11. The pastor and the other guests looked at each other, while I gazed fixedly at the young theologian, who was reflecting.

  12. But tell me how I should set to work to ask the pastor to dinner.

  13. We dined merrily together, then we played at cards, and in the evening we finished reading the Pastor Fido.

  14. The pastor accepted my invitation, and said I was sure to be charmed with Helen's mother.

  15. We had an excellent dinner, and while it lasted the conversation was restricted to ordinary topics; but at dessert the pastor begged M.

  16. Soon after the pastor had gone I heard three light knocks on my prison door.

  17. Why don't you invite the pastor and my cousin to dine with you?

  18. The Pastor Fido will please you still more.

  19. The Pastor Fido was on her night-table, and opening the book I proceeded to read the passage where Mirtillo describes the sweetness of the kiss Amaryllis had given him, attuning my voice to the sentiment of the lines.

  20. As may be imagined, I did not awake till very late the next morning, and when I rang my bell Clementine came in, looking very pleased, and holding a copy of the Pastor Fido in her hand.

  21. However, I went apart with Helen, who told me that the pastor and his niece were going to sup with her mother the following day.

  22. The pastor and the widow were both sturdy drinkers, and I did my best to please them.

  23. The efficacy of the pastor must entirely depend on the knowledge of his people's state, and his power to correct their sins, and to guide them in their penitence.

  24. From Easter to the vacation they are instructed in the duties of a pastor in great detail.

  25. This is the true bond between the pastor and his flock: the true maintainer of discipline, and instrument of restoration.

  26. In the spring following our first Boston winter together Mrs. Addy and I went to Hingham, Massachusetts, where I had been appointed temporary pastor of the Methodist Church.

  27. The best moment of the morning came, however, when the pastor of the ship faced me, goggle-eyed and marveling.

  28. Now the pastor was six feet tall and broad in proportion, and I, as I have already confessed, am very short.

  29. I agreed to do this until a permanent pastor could be found, on condition that I should preach at Dennis on Sunday afternoons, using the same sermon I preached in my own pulpit in the morning.

  30. With deep reluctance the pastor finally accepted me and the situation; but when the moment came to introduce me, he devoted most of his time to heartfelt apologies for my presence.

  31. There was a gospel-ship in the harbor, and one Saturday the pastor of it came ashore to ask if some American clergyman in our party would preach on his ship the next morning.

  32. Lyman Davis, the pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church in Tarrytown, was very friendly toward me and my ordination, and he proved his friendship in a singularly prompt and efficient fashion.

  33. Nothing could be done for her, and she failed daily during our second year together, and died in March, 1878, just before I finished my theological course and while I was still temporary pastor of the church at Hingham.

  34. Shaw" would preach for him, and the pastor returned to his post greatly pleased.

  35. Nicholas Kurtz had arrived in order to be ordained as pastor for the congregation at Tulpehocken.

  36. A pastor is an evangelical teacher who discharges the office fully, in all its parts, or who performs all ministerial acts.

  37. In 1809, Hazelius was ordained as Lutheran pastor of Germantown.

  38. The next year he was in attendance at the funeral of Pastor Handschuh.

  39. Joshua Kocherthal, Lutheran pastor at Landau in Bavaria, was the leader of the emigrants from the Palatinate.

  40. The congregation at Lancaster desired Kurtz as their pastor instead of Handschuh, whom the Ministerium was planning to send to them.

  41. Mr. Denny, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Chambersburg, be acknowledged as an advisory member of this synodical assembly.

  42. David Henkel that no person shall be ordained a pastor of our Church unless he understands as much of the Greek language as will enable him to translate the New Testament.

  43. On the services conducted at Barren Hill on Easter Monday, 1762, Muhlenberg reports as follows: "After my sermon Pastor Schlatter added a short admonition, impressing upon them what they had already heard.

  44. It was the first book to appear from the pen of a Lutheran pastor in America, and till the awakening of Confessional Lutheranism the only uncompromising presentation of Lutheran doctrine.

  45. Pastor Christian Knoll of Holstein was called to take charge of the southern congregations in and about New York.

  46. Naturally, then, people would be interested in a man like Stephen Gano, who became pastor in 1792.

  47. The pastor was unable to accept, but promised to be on hand early in the morning.

  48. Mr. Grover was pastor for forty-six years, and his successor was Rev.

  49. The pastor and many of the members of this church had a prominent part in the War of the Revolution.

  50. Pastor and people were ardent supporters of these movements.

  51. Charles Lowell, pastor of the West Church of Boston.

  52. Cartwright was preaching, when the pastor of a church, who was with him in the pulpit, leaned forward and whispered, "General Jackson has just come in.

  53. Ralph Waldo Emerson served as pastor and conducted services in this structure.

  54. Their first pastor was called a dissenting minister.

  55. But there was another pastor in the pulpit.

  56. The builder was Pardon Tillinghast, the sixth pastor of the church, who, like his predecessors, served without salary.

  57. In spite of the youth of his new follower, El Pastor found him of great assistance; and it is even said that Zumalacarregui, ashamed of having for leader a man who could not write, undertook to teach him, and succeeded in so doing.

  58. The pastor did so at once, and, as he heaved at the bar which held it, he could hear the clatter of hoofs and the shouts of men outside.

  59. Reuben was able to talk with considerable energy when the pastor appeared--summoned, as he fancied, to prepare the dying man for the great change.

  60. While the hunter's wound was being examined every one, save the pastor and the women, was sent from the hall to aid in extinguishing the fire, which had been nearly subdued.

  61. He saw them bind the unlucky pastor and carry him off, mounted behind a savage chief.

  62. When the pastor bade farewell to Reuben he had done so with the sad feelings of one who expected never to see his face again, but the pastor's judgment was at fault.

  63. Immediately Loo was at his side; the whole party assembled round his couch; the pastor opened his book, and in these exceptional circumstances Reuben Dale and Louisa MacFearsome were married!

  64. Gertrud had taken up her key basket, and was on the point of leaving the room, when the pastor detained her with the request that she would follow him into his study for a few minutes, as he had something important to speak to her about.

  65. The pastor seemed hardly to have expected his offer to have met with so favourable a reception.

  66. He assumed his first independent charge in 1838 when he became pastor of the village church at Moettlinger, Wurtemberg.

  67. He was known afterward as Pastor Blumhardt.

  68. It became noised about that those who repented, with whom the pastor prayed and upon whom he laid his hands, would be healed.

  69. A Pastor is a Teacher, Guide, Exemplar, Friend, Administrator.

  70. In the English Church, the Rector, or chapter, or religious house or even a layman, has the whole right to the income of the Parish but the Vicar only to a certain portion of it as the Pastor of the Flock.

  71. I have not the slightest idea what the pastor said, for suddenly a perverse thought entered my brain and became a fixed idea not to be shaken off.

  72. Quietly resigned to his fate he is led away by Death, whilst the loss of the worthy Pastor is symbolically deplored by the flight and terror of several shepherds in the distance amidst their flocks.

  73. For nearly forty years he was pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston.

  74. He first appeared at Zwickau, quitted Wittenberg after Luther's return, dissatisfied with the inferior part he was playing, and became pastor of the small town of Alstadt in Thuringia.

  75. Its chief pastor had persuaded him to stay as a colleague, and the council appointed him professor and preacher.

  76. Stephen Morell, "pastor of the Christian Society at the Old Meeting House, Norwich.

  77. Souart was appointed pastor of Ville-Marie, the Jesuit Father, Claude Pigots, who had until then discharged the duties of pastor, resigning gracefully in his favor.

  78. The new pastor before becoming a Sulpician, had been a rich aristocratic Parisian.

  79. Caillen, pastor of Ville-Marie, who decided on sending her to her superior, there to disclose all the anxious thoughts that agitated her soul, and speak of whatever she conceived to be for the welfare of the Congregation.

  80. Alete came to take the arm of the pastor in triumph, and he, M.

  81. After dinner Alete and Ebba went into the drawing-room, and having carefully shut the door, might have been heard going and coming, and giving orders, while the pastor entertained his guests.

  82. The pastor had asked Alete to arrange everything as she chose, and to place in the best possible light the presents intended for his friends.

  83. Whole pitchers of beer will be emptied to the health of the old pastor and his friends.

  84. The old pastor then, with an earnest voice and with tears in his eyes, pronounced the nuptial benediction, and gave his children a touching exhortation.

  85. Invitations had already been given to many in the neighborhood, to the friends of the pastor and of the two families.

  86. This episcopal letter the pastor had received on the previous evening, and he had been courageous enough to keep the secret until Christmas night, in order to give it more solemnity.

  87. Another gentleman, who united the character of a deservedly beloved pastor and an inspiring popular lecturer on various scientific topics, developed this Boynton theory.

  88. From time to time I went on hunting excursions with the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Ann Arbor; and though he made no parade of religion, there was in him a genial, manly piety which bettered me.

  89. Samuel Joseph May, pastor of the Unitarian church in Syracuse; and he had attracted me from the first moment that I saw him.

  90. Leonard Bacon, pastor of the First Congregational church in New Haven.

  91. I was living in the country with a pastor called M.

  92. My pastor tells me what to believe and I believe it; he assures me that any one who says anything else is mistaken, and I give not heed to them.

  93. More elegance and purity of taste belong to the Aminta, more animation and variety to the Pastor Fido.

  94. Any one who glances over a few scenes of the Pastor Fido will, I think, perceive that it is the very style which Metastasio, and inferior coadjutors of musical expression, have rendered familiar to our ears.

  95. Tasso, it has been said, on reading the Pastor Fido, was content to observe that, if his rival had not read the Aminta, he would not have excelled it.

  96. The Pastor Fido was first represented at Turin in 1585, but seems not to have been printed for some years afterwards.

  97. I know of one pastor in a good section of Berlin, however, who has recently lost considerable influence in his congregation.

  98. Although the social position of the pastor in a German village is less than that of a minor Government official, yet he and his wife wield considerable influence.

  99. Herr Pastor talks agriculture with Herr Baron, and Frau Pastor discusses past and coming incidents in the local birth rate with Frau Baron.

  100. The schoolmaster having done his work for six days of the week, the pastor gives an extra virulent dose on the Sabbath.

  101. When a pastor enters this Church of which the Supreme War Lord is the head, his first oath is unqualified allegiance to his King and State.

  102. The pastor of the small towns and villages, who is very much under the thumb of the local Junker or rich manufacturer, has as his highest ambition the hope that he and his wife may be invited to coffee at least twice a year.

  103. Pastor Falk, of Berlin, is a typical fire-eater.

  104. The good pastor expressed the hope that his early recovery would permit the admiral to continue his noble work of obliterating England.

  105. Snobbery has no greater exemplification than in the relations of the local Lutheran pastor and the local landlord or millionaire.

  106. The chief pastor became the guide, perhaps the judge, of the whole flock.


  107. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pastor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chaplain; churchman; clergyman; cleric; clerk; curate; divine; ecclesiastic; father; minister; parson; pastor; rector; shepherd


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    pastoral life; pastoral people; pastoral poetry; pastoral staff