"Signed, sealed and delivered, in presence of
JAMES LAW, WILLIAM CHAPMAN. SALLY LAW, JANE CHAPMAN. "JAMES WRAY, Missionary."
James Wray, and Englishman, ordained and sent out by Wesley, arrived in 1788. He was the first ordained Methodist minister in Cumberland. Previous to this the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered by the Episcopal clergyman. This same year Mr. Black, Mr. John Mann, and Mr.英文原著 · 《The Chignecto Isthmus And Its First Settlers》
"I will be at Nottingham," said the king, "Within this fortnight, And take I will Robin Hood, And so I will that knight. Go home, thou proud sher-iff, And do as I bid thee, And ordain good arch-ers enow, Of all the wide countree."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Let dirge be sung, and trentals rightly read, For Love is dead: Sir Wrong his tomb ordaineth My mistress' marble heart; Which epitaph containeth, "Her eyes were once his dart." From so ungrateful fancy; From such a female frenzy; From them that use men thus, Good Lord, deliver us.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
"'Twas ordained that the blow should fall so," she said, "and those who did it laugh--laugh at me."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"Good-night, Signora."
He put the cap on his dark hair with a free and graceful gesture. Was not that, too, Maurice? "A rivederci, Signora."
He was gone. Hermione stood alone in the fatal night. She had forgotten Vere. She had forgotten Artois. The words of Ruffo had led her on another step in the journey it was ordained that she should make. She felt the under-things.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
``Week by week I preached there''--how strange, now, to think of William Dean Howells and the colonel-preacher!--``and after a while the church was completed, and in that very church, there in Lexington, I was ordained a minister.''英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》