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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 111
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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MINISTRY OF REV. MR. CARROLL. 101 cil, which will answer just as well ; for, in either case, they are sure to be condemned. If they consent to a Mutual Council, you will be restored to your rights as members, and, with such re-inforcements as you can get from other quarters, will soon be able to out-vote them. But if they refuse that bait, then do you call an Ex-parte Council, which will be still more sure to condemn them, as all the evidence, and all the pleas, and all the judges, will be on one side. Such a Council will doubtless unchurch the old con- cern, and either pronounce you the South Church instead of them, or assist you in building and organ- izing a new Church, where the "whole Gospel" shall be preached. So the disaffected members, — those who had asked and received letters of dismission and those who had not, — gravely applied to the South Church to join them in a Mutual Council. As they expected, the Church declined. Or rather, the Clerk, with the unanimous approval of the Standing Com- mittee, refused to call a meeting of the Church to consider the question ; and the Church, at their annual meeting a short time afterwards, (Nov. 24, 1863,) passed a resolution approving the action of the Committee, and declaring that in future " the power to call a Church meeting for business, shall rest in the Church Committee together with the Clerk." Thus the way was prepared for the calling of an Ex-parte Council. During all these agitations, which were aimed chiefly against Mr. Carroll, in the hope of either 9
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0111. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 111. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n115/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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