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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 13
Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Includes an alphabetical past-member list, death dates and explanations of death and dismissal symbols. Also contains sermons and church history. A dismissal to another church is not a death.
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iM^i^ HISTORY OF THE SOUTH CHURCH D CHAPTER 1. PRELIMINARY HISTORY. Prior to the erection of the South Church edifices, in 1851 and 1852, there was no house of worship of any Protestant denomination, in the south-western section of the city. The nearest Protestant church, at the date mentioned, was that in College street, dis- tant, by the course of the roads, about three-quarters of a mile from the site of the South Church. For two or three years, a few individuals had been moot- ing- the question, whether it was not i^ossible to provide a place of worship for this destitute section, too many of whose inhabitants excused themselves from attend- ing public worship on account of distance, poverty, and other circumstances, which served to quiet their con- sciences and keep them aloof from the means of grace. True, there was a small Sabbath School held in the Mount Pleasant School-house a part of the time, and occasionally some clergyman from town, or theological student, would come over and hold a meeting for prayer, or preach a sermon. The few pious people 1
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0013. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 13. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n15/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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