church-work

If they correspond the GD lyrics are simply a different way of church-work.

Sven Bachmann Essay Sven Bachmann 2005

The higher interests of Christian love and church-work will dwarf the importance of dress and display, and Bertie will grow into a useful girl, faithful to, and contented with, her position -- a help to her mother at home, a good example to Nina and the younger children.

Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

Sis'll talk about the church-work and about the Sunday-school,

Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various

The fifty new churches will very much mend the prospect; but church-work is slow, church-work is slow!

The Coverley Papers Various

On our return from the coast the Bishop and wife stopped at Pueblo, and he reports the church-work here as being in good condition.

Unwritten History 1919

There's nothing incompatible in her being a fine bridge-player and doing church-work.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

She says you should have been in the church-work long ago.

The Blood Red Dawn Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

We talk often, and wistfully, of those four years of church-work, social duties, literary tasks, and academic studies, which filled hands and heads.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

Her father was alive, and she saw him often; her sister, "Aunt Betsy," and her children kept the old home-nest warm for him; the young couple had hosts of friends in town and country, and both were as deeply interested, as of yore, in church-work.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

As the church had been brought to a status of activity greater than ever before, was paying larger dues, and raising more money for support of pastor and support of the church-work than ever before in its history, and was receiving greater recognition as an independent body both by the school and the other churches of the community than ever before, it seemed an opportune time for the pastor to resign.

Echoes from a pioneer life, 1909