 ... a feeling of great soreness, irritation, and discontent ; but six hundred years ago the preaching of the Friars was an immense and incalculable blessing to the country, and if it had not been for the wonderful reformation wrought by their activity...  Historical Studies - Page 29de Augustus Jessopp, Samuel James Capper, Frederic Harrison, Oscar Browning - 1883 - 205 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Augustus Jessopp - 1889 - 404 pages
...foot, supported by alms. Sometimes the parson lent them the church, sometimes they held a camp meeting in spite of him, and just as often as not they left...vital force. A sermon was an event in those days, and a preacher v with any real gifts of oratory was looked upon as a prophet sent by God. Never was there... | |
 | 1896 - 276 pages
...death of the Saviour, and the events recorded in the Gospels. There was no pulpit and no reading-desk. A preaching parson — one who regularly exhorted...expounded to them the Scriptures — would have been regarded as a wonder. Very few vicars of that period ever wrote or composed a sermon — sometimes... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...foot, supported by alms. Sometimes the parson lent them the church, sometimes they held a camp meeting in spite of him, and just as often as not they left...vital force. A sermon was an event in those days, and a preacher with any real gifts of oratory was looked upon as a prophet sent by God. Never was there... | |
 | Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor - 1904 - 396 pages
...sometimes they held a camp meeting in spite of him, and just as often as not they left behind thwn a feeling of great soreness, irritation, and discontent...vital force. A sermon was an event in those days, and a preacher with any real gifts of oratory was looked upon as a prophet sent by God. Never was there... | |
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