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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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The lawyer had a haunting air as of cousinship to things ecclesiastical, and, indeed, he was lay-preacher at
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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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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