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  • In 1891, Christian fundamentalist and lay-preacher, William Blackstone appealed to President Benjamin Harrison to help establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

    They Know NOT What They Do 2007

  • Kuzwayo's maternal grandfather, Jeremiah Makgothi, was a prosperous farmer and Methodist lay-preacher who worked with missionary Dr Robert Moffat on a Setswana translation of the bible.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • I have considered a ceremony—Rollie has a lay-preacher certificate that lets him marry couples and bless sundry enterprises—but we agree to wait until the house is finished instead.

    Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

  • I have considered a ceremony—Rollie has a lay-preacher certificate that lets him marry couples and bless sundry enterprises—but we agree to wait until the house is finished instead.

    Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

  • Our local Member of Provincial Legislature, Jeff Vilane, says the people who died after being struck by lightning were the local lay-preacher Reverend Mtshali (who was struck by lightning while he was riding his bicycle from work), Mrs Magudulela and Mr Qwabe.

    ANC KZN CONVEYS CONDOLENCES TO VICTIMS OF CYCLONE 2001

  • Our local Member of Provincial Legislature, Jeff Vilane, says the people who died after being struck by lightning were the local lay-preacher Reverend Mtshali (who was struck by lightning while he was riding his bicycle from work), Mrs Magudulela and Mr Qwabe.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Mr.T. employs much of his time in laboring among the colored people in town, and among the apprentices on the estates, in the capacity of _lay-preacher_.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Scotsman Thomas Carlyle, a social and religious prophet, lay-preacher, and prose-poet, one of the most eccentric but one of the most stimulating of all English writers.

    A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

  • The lawyer had a haunting air as of cousinship to things ecclesiastical, and, indeed, he was lay-preacher at

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • And I have seen a pert little whipper-snapper ask a venerable clergyman what he thought of a certain outrageous lay-preacher, and receive the clergyman's reply, that he thought most unfavorably of many of the lay-preacher's doings, with a self-conceited smirk that seemed to say to the venerable clergyman, "I have been reckoning _you_ up: you won't do."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

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