New Haven · Membership and death references
South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 51
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.
Searchable source text
MINISTRY OF DR. STILES. 43 say, almost from the very organization of the South Church, — the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, was powerfully wielded by Dr. Stiles, Dr. Nathaniel W. Taylor, and others ; and as might be expected, God •' left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven." A few scraps from Dr, Stiles' lettere written at that period, will show his estimate of the state of reli- gious feeling in the congregation : "New Havev, Dec. 13, 1852. "A good meeting last night. Six persons among us now entertain hope. One or two interesting developments of this kind." [From another letter without date, but which must have been written about the same time with the above.] " Our seriousness has decidedly increased since Sabbath. The young person of whom I spoke as having taken a wrong direction, but whose early conversion I anticipated, rejoices in Ciirist. * * * It is a little remarkable that ahnost every awakened one says that he was impressed from the very beginning of our services. Remember two things : — our (perhaps) sincere prayers that God would descend and own that House as his accepted sanctuary, by the move- ments of his Spirit, at that earliest moment, and forever aft^r. Call to mind your own frequent remark, when there was yet no outward manifestation of Divine influence, that the sermons preached would show their fruit by-and-bye. Mr. and Mrs. said to me after meeting last night, that since their own conversion they had not seen such a demonstration of religious feeling as they then witnessed." "New Havex, Dee. 22, 1862. " One or two conversions this week ; particularly a Miss , awakened last Sabbath. Prayer Meeting very crowded."
Cite this page
Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0051. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 51. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n53/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
Historic U.S. publication before 1931; public-domain assessment based on publication date. Internet Archive does not necessarily provide an explicit license. Preserve publication and digitizing credits.