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Go Set a Watchman
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- It was customary for the town's three churches—Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian—to unite and listen to one visiting minister, but occasionally when the churches could not agree on a preacher or his salary, each congregation held its own revival with an open invitation to all; sometimes, therefore, the populace was assured of three weeks' spiritual reawakening.†
p. 60.5congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- Sin, Jesus, Christ, sorrow, salvation, success, were key words they listened for each night, and their attention was rewarded in two ways: in those days no minister could get through a sermon without using them all, and they were assured of muffled paroxysms of muffled delight at least seven times an evening; secondly, because they paid such strict attention to Reverend Moorehead, Jem, Dill, and she were thought to be the best-behaved children in the congregation.†
p. 62.4
- You and Scout can be the congregation.†
p. 63.4
- The congregation drew up two yard chairs and sat facing the altar.†
p. 63.6
- The minister and the congregation joined in the chorus.†
p. 64.3
- He once asked, "Where is the Devil?" and pointed straight at the congregation.†
p. 65.2
- That Sunday, Jean Louise and the congregation were in all innocence clearing their throats to drag it accordingly when out of a cloudless sky Mrs. Clyde Haskins crashed down on the organ†
p. 93.9 *
- In the confusion that followed, if the Archbishop of Canterbury had materialized in full regalia Jean Louise would not have been in the least surprised: the congregation had failed to notice any change in Mrs. Haskins's lifelong interpretation, and they intoned the Doxology to its bitter end as they had been reared to do, while Mrs. Haskins romped madly ahead like something out of Salisbury Cathedral.†
p. 94.3
- In the sundry church wars that were a living part of Maycomb Methodism, Herbert could be counted on as the one person to keep his head, talk sense, and reconcile the more primitive elements of the congregation with the Young Turk faction.†
p. 94.8
- But after less than a year the young minister had impressed his congregation to a degree that moved Dr. Finch to observe absently and audibly one Sunday: "We asked for bread and they gave us a Stone."†
p. 95.4
- Congregation'll never learn it.†
p. 98.9
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.