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convocation
1. The finality of the register is your convocation to participate and to enjoy the benefits of the new systematics
2. convocation with simple majority of the partners and in second
3. convocation with any number
4. determined in the notice of the convocation of the General
5. 24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation
6. 16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh
7. (The word "convocation" is Strong's H4744 and is miqra' and means a sacred
8. 3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is
9. memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation
10. 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and
11. Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, “In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing [of trumpets], a holy convocation
12. Paul was fresh from his Arabian convocation with Jesus Christ
13. It is vain to deny that in the actual working machinery and administration of our Church, in its arrangements, plans, schemes, and normal organization, the lay members have comparatively no place at all! Do the bishops meet in solemn conclave at Lambeth Palace to consider the state of our Zion? There is no place for the laity,- Does Convocation hold its annual debates? There is no representation of the laity,- Does the bishop of a diocese make his annual arrangements for the work of his See? Has he any difficult problem to solve about discipline or the best mode of dealing with some criminous clerk? He has no council of laymen,- Has a vacant living or incumbency to be filled up? The appointment is made without the slightest regard to the opinion of the parishioners
14. How few laymen know anything about Church work in their own diocese! How few care one jot for Convocation! How few could tell you, if their lives depended on it, who are the proctors of their diocese! How few understand the meaning of the great doctrinal controversies by which their Church is almost rent asunder! How few exhibit as much personal interest or anxiety about them, as a Roman spectator would have exhibited about the fight of a couple of gladiators in the arena of the Coliseum! How few could tell you anything more than this, "that there is some squabble among the parsons; and they don't pretend to understand it!"�This is a melancholy picture; but I fear it is a sadly correct one
15. I am afraid it is vain to hope for any large measure of Convocation reform
16. This alone is an immense and intolerable defect, and completely prevents the laity, as a rule, taking any interest in the proceedings of Convocation
17. ) The simple fact that the lay people have at present neither voice nor place in the English Convocation, is enough to show that it is an institution totally unsuited to the age, and behind the times
18. Of course I do not forget that a house of laymen has been called into existence in the province of Canterbury, with the express purpose of acting as a consultative body, and an assistant to Convocation, and it has been resolved to form a similar house of laymen at York
19. Convocation, on the contrary, is one of the oldest legal institutions in the realm
20. is a kind of convocation address the teacher gives to his students
21. The convocation is in two weeks
22. invitation from his son to attend his convocation? Screw him ,I said to myself
23. fanning themselves with the convocation brochures
24. I had missed my last convocation as I had overslept
25. our parents will meet at the convocation and things will be smooth
26. convocation with Him last time before He sent you to this world through
27. Your last convocation with Him was the day in which He entrusted you
28. She let her eyes slide over the gaggle of courtiers and local grandes standing about pretending to listen raptly to the convocation
29. Then came Convocation
30. Anne wondered why Gilbert should have sent her flowers for Convocation
31. Yet just before she left Patty's Place for Convocation she flung Roy's violets aside and put Gilbert's lilies-of-the-valley in their place
32. "I heard today that Gilbert Blythe's engagement to Christine Stuart was to be announced as soon as Convocation was over
33. "The Congress, considering the timidity of the single Powers or other causes might delay indefinitely the convocation of the above-mentioned Congress, is of opinion that the Government which should first dismiss any considerable number of soldiers would confer a signal benefit on Europe and mankind, because it would oblige other Governments, urged on by public opinion, to follow its example, and by the moral force of this accomplished fact, would have increased rather than diminished the condition of its national defence
34. This Congress, considering that the timidity of a single Power or other cause might delay indefinitely the convocation of the above-mentioned Congress, is of the opinion that the Government which should first dismiss any considerable number of soldiers would confer a signal benefit on Europe and mankind, because it would oblige other Governments, urged on by public opinion, to follow its example, and by the moral force of this accomplished fact would have increased rather than diminished the conditions of its national defense