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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 75
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MINISTRY OF UEV, MR. NOYES. G7 Scotch people were in the habit of attending.] In a few months after Mr. Noyes left us, these two persons were sus]ienclcd from the privileges of the Church, and afterwards struck from the list of members ; as were two other persons, for similar oflfences. 3. "A third hindrance to the Church, is the unprecedented assumption of the nnnority." What that assumption is, or was, Mr. Noyes does not say in so many words, but leaves it to bo inferred that the minority assumed to overrule the majority. He says, " The pastoral relation, left to the tender mercies of a minority, has no security whatever, and better never be formed. It can be sundered at the capriciotis or malicious beck of a single individual." Well, who were the minority in the South Church ? Mr. Noyes' own friends and adherents. What is the proof that they w^ere in the minority ? Their votes ; which on the resolution to accept his resignation, stood three or five* to sev- enty, as was testified by the Chairman of the South Church Committee before the Council which dis- missed Mr. Noyes. But we do not believe that this minority, or any other minority, claimed to overrule the majority. If they did, we never heard of it until announced in Mr. Noyes' Farewell Sermon. It is too absurd a position for rational men to take. Un- doubtedly the minority claimed a right to speak to * There were three negative votes, and two persons did not vote.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0075. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 75. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n77/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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