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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 91
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MINISTRY OF REV. MR. CARROLL. 81 him keenly susceptible of aflfection, and enthusiastically ardent in attachment. " He was, too, in executive talent, a more than ordinary man. He had the disposition as well as the ability to labor. He wrought his sermons with pains-taking fidelity, and with disciplined skill. He gave himself to the work of the min- istry with a zeal and self-forgetfulness that revealed not more the sense of religious responsibility than the spirit of indomitable energy. "And all these qualities, native and acquired, were under the control of a profoundly scriptural and eminently con- servative piety. He loved truth, and sought it ever with an inextinguishable thirst. He loved the souls of men ; and, so long as his strength lasted, sought their salvation with an indefatigable earnestness. He was, in a word, a noble example of the Christian man and the cultivated minister." Such was the father of Rev. J. Halsted Carroll, the present minister of the South Church, New Haven. The latter was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; made a pro- fession of religion at the age of thirteen years ; en- tered College before he was fourteen ; and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, in July, 1851. In the following year he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and graduated in May, 1855. At the close of his second year of theological study, he was licens- ed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia to preach the Gospel ; and on the 30th of May, 1855, (the year he left the Seminary,) he was ordained and installed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, as Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Jamesburg, New Jersey. The exercises of the occasion were opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. McDonald, of Princeton. Rev. Dr. Hall,
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0091. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 91. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n95/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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