Shorter Catechism
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noun
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And wherever Scottish Presbyterians went in the U.S., predestination, 90-minute sermons, and the "Shorter Catechism" went with them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without batting an eye I quoted from the Shorter Catechism in my best Sunday school voice: “‘God is a Spirit, Infinite, Eternal and Unchangeable.’”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“And he can say the Shorter Catechism and repeat the Psalms of David by heart,” put in Langford sonorously.
From The Spoilers of the Valley by Watson, Robert
She pored over the Shorter Catechism, and acquainted herself with her Bible.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John
What is the Shorter Catechism, anyway,—or at least, what have they left out of the Longer Catechism to make it shorter,—and is the length of the Catechism one of the points of difference?
From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
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