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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 90
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80 MINISTRY OF REV, MR. CARROLL. lastly as Pastor of the First Presbyterian Churcli in Northern Liberties^ Philadelphia. To the last men- tioned Church there were added during his ministry of five years and four months, 259 members, or an average of forty-eight per annum. Ill health at length compelled him to relinquish his charge, and after a few years of increasing illness, he departed this life at the age of fifty-five, with the words, " Christ is all my hope," upon his lips. The writer remembers him well, and can attest the truthfulness and fidelity of the following portrait, drawn by Rev. Thomas J. Shepherd, who now occupies the same pulpit which Dr. Carroll vacated in Philadelphia. He says : " Dr. Carroll was largely endowed by nature and grace with the qualities which give success to the preacher and pastor. In person he was tall, slender, yet symmetrically formed. He had a complexion rather dark ; an eye singu- larly fine and expressive ; a countenance that easily took on a winning smile, or brightened into a glow of animation ; and a voice, withal, of great compass and melody, modu- lated ever with an exquisite taste. In manners he was uncommonly bland, graceful, fascinating. He had the rare faculty of making himself equally agreeable to people of all ages and of all ranks. " In native intellect and studious culture, he was un- doubtedly superior to most men. He had in ample meas- ure the intuitive power of veason, and the imperial power of imagination. In College and in Seminary he studied hard, too hard indeed for his physical strength, yet so suc- cessfully as to gift the workings of his mind with a pro- digious force. "In sensibility, moreover, he was quick, subtle, strong. He had a nervous organization which perhaps was too highly strung for the world's rough ways, but which made
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0090. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 90. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n94/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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