Word: deaconness
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...DEACON DAKE...
...Minnesota. He follows two main groups: the family of farmer Kari Oscar Neilson, and the religious cell of a preacher-sansordinance, Danjell (uncle of Kristina, Neilson's wife). Both groups are directly impelled to emigrate by personal oppression on the part of their overlords (the sheriff, the constable, the deacon, the churchwarden...
Concerned that the remaining staff was too small to provide the University with all the news, Decherd returned to the Stadium, and began an elaborate ritual, beseeching his teammates to forgive and forget. "Deacon," he yelied across the grid through a makeshift bullhorn rolled out of Saturday's issue. "How are we going to fill the sports page...
There are only two functioning churches in the whole of China, both of which reopened recently. The Protestant one, opened last Easter Sunday on a street opposite Peking's Tung Tan shopping center, is served by the Reverend Kan and his assistant, a 50-year-old deacon. A white-haired little old Chinese lady plays hymns on an upright honky-tonk piano. The hymns and the service are all in Chinese, even though the congregation is mostly European and only four members are actually Chinese...
...longer had any use for their advice. The diocesan's personnel staff forthwith resigned. A poll showed that the majority of the diocese's priests had decided they simply could not work with Gijsen. Some no longer consider him their bishop at all. Said one deacon: "We have to deal with a problem named Jo Gijsen who happened to become a bishop...