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One Sunday it would be an Anglican priest, the next a Dutch Reform predikant, the next a Methodist minister.

There was a parson, or predikant, also accompanying the commandos.

The predikant knew something of Jacoba’s strange story; he was a man of some refinement and much sympathy; and it did the quiet Dutchwoman good to have a talk with the minister she had known so long.

Ja, I have often heard the predikant talk of Calvinus—and preach about him too.

The predikant having made a speech to high Heaven, in the guise of a long prayer thoroughly in accordance with the prevailing sentiment of the meeting, the latter broke up.