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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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- One Sunday, when regular service was over, Father James had uncovered sin in the congregation of the righteous.†
Chpt 1.1 *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- Elisha hung his head as Father James spoke, and the congregation murmured.†
Chpt 1.1
- She said nothing in Ella Mae's defense, for she must have felt, as the congregation felt, that Father James was only exercising his clear and painful duty; he was responsible, after all, for Elisha, as Praying Mother Washington was responsible for Ella Mae.†
Chpt 1.1
- It dominated all, the pulpit: a wooden platform raised above the congregation, with a high stand in the center for the Bible, before which the preacher stood.†
Chpt 1.1
- There faced the congregation, flowing downward from this height, the scarlet altar cloth that bore the golden cross and the legend: JESUS SAVES.†
Chpt 1.1
- After a moment, the congregation and the piano joined her: "Not my father, not my mother, But it's me, oh, Lord.†
Chpt 2.1
- Get up in front of the congregation and tell them too, if she has to.†
Chpt 2.1
- They were all there already, big, comfortable, ordained men; they smiled and nodded as he mounted the pulpit steps; and one of them said, nodding toward the congregation, which was as spirited as any evangelist could wish: "Just getting these folks warmed up for you, boy.†
Chpt 2.2
- While he sat, waiting, he saw that Deborah had found a seat in the very front of the congregation, just below the pulpit, and sat with her Bible folded on her lap.†
Chpt 2.2
- and found himself on his feet, moving toward the pulpit where the great Bible awaited him, and over that sheer drop the murmuring congregation, he felt a giddy terror that he stood so high, and with this, immediately, a pride and joy unspeakable that God had placed him there.†
Chpt 2.2
- They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached; and knew, in the careless lifting of an eye, which sermon to bring to which congregation.†
Chpt 2.2
- She came, however; late, just before the pastor was about to present the speaker of the hour to the congregation.†
Chpt 2.2
- She was here, and his heart was uplifted; something exploded in his heart when the opening door revealed her, smiling faintly and with eyes downcast, moving directly to a seat in the back of the congregation.†
Chpt 2.2
- And so he rose and faced the congregation.†
Chpt 2.2
- that she stood, so brazen, in the congregation of the righteous and refused to bow her head.†
Chpt 2.2
- He said amen, and blessed them, and turned away, and immediately the congregation began to sing.†
Chpt 2.2
- Deborah, singing and beating her tambourine in the front of the congregation, watched him.†
Chpt 2.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.