All 15 Uses of
testimony
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- And among those many voices, and stammering with his own, John would care no longer for her testimony.†
Chpt 1.1 *testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
- And she would pray for him, sitting up in bed unaided, her head lifted, her voice steady; while he, kneeling in a corner of the room, trembled and almost wished that she would die; and trembled again at this testimony to the desperate wickedness of his heart; and prayed without words to be forgiven.†
Chpt 2.2
- It was later to become his proud testimony that he hated his sins?†
Chpt 2.2
- Yet, as they approached the doors, the fear held in check so many days and nights rose in him again, and he thought how he would stand tonight, so high, and all alone, to vindicate the testimony that had fallen from his lips, that God had called him to preach.†
Chpt 2.2
- When, at last, the Scripture lesson read, the testimonies in, the songs sung, the collection taken up, he was introduced?†
Chpt 2.2testimonies = evidence -- especially statements in a trial
- He did not begin with a "shout" song, or with a fiery testimony; but in a dry, matter-of-fact voice, which trembled only a little, asked them to look with him at the sixth chapter of Isaiah, and the fifth verse; and he asked Deborah to read it aloud for him.†
Chpt 2.2testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
- Ah, whosoever failed to have this testimony should never see His face, but should be told, on that great day: "Depart from me, ye that work iniquity," and be hurled forever into the lake of fire prepared for Satan and all his angels.†
Chpt 2.2
- Now Gabriel tried, with the testimony he had held, with all the signs of His favor that God had shown him, to put himself between the living son and the darkness that waited to devour him.†
Chpt 2.2
- Then for the first time he stated that he was not Involved, and asked one of the other boys to corroborate his testimony.†
Chpt 2.3
- Against the testimony of the three robbers, and her own testimony, and, under oath, the storekeeper's indecision, there was no evidence on which to convict him.†
Chpt 2.3
- Against the testimony of the three robbers, and her own testimony, and, under oath, the storekeeper's indecision, there was no evidence on which to convict him.†
Chpt 2.3
- It was in his father's anger, and in his mother's calm insistence, and in the vehement mockery of his aunt; it had rung, so oddly, in Roy's voice this afternoon, and when Elisha played the piano it was there; it was in the beat and jangle of Sister McCandless's tambourine, it was in the very cadence of her testimony, and invested that testimony with a matchless, unimpeachable authority.†
Chpt 3.1
- It was in his father's anger, and in his mother's calm insistence, and in the vehement mockery of his aunt; it had rung, so oddly, in Roy's voice this afternoon, and when Elisha played the piano it was there; it was in the beat and jangle of Sister McCandless's tambourine, it was in the very cadence of her testimony, and invested that testimony with a matchless, unimpeachable authority.†
Chpt 3.1
- And their dread testimony would be his!†
Chpt 3.1
- And he opened his mouth, feeling, as he watched his father, the darkness roar behind him, and the very earth beneath him seem to shake; yet he gave to his father their common testimony.†
Chpt 3.1