South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 116

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106  THE    EX-PARTE    COUNCIL.
Church  and  Society  to  supply  the  pulpit  for  a  year.  Before
the  termination  of  the  year,  a  meeting  of  the  Church  was
held  to  consider  the  question  of  a  more  permanent  settle-
ment of  Mr.  Carroll  in  the  work  of  the  ministry  there.  An
arrangement  was  made,  purporting  to  be  between  the
Church  and  Society  as  one  party,  and  Mi:  Carroll  as  the
other  party,  by  wliich  he  was  to  remain  in  the  work  of  the
ministry  among  them  indefinitely,  and  which  could  be  ter-
minated only  when  either  party  should  give  four  months
notice  of  a  desu-e  for  the  termination.
III.  In  that  meeting  the  majority  of  the  male  members
present  voted  against  the  proposed  arrangement,  but  their
votes  were  oveiTuled  by  counting  the  votes  of  female  mem-
bers.
IV.  The  aforesaid  arrangement  having  been  made,  Mr.
Carroll  assumed  the  title  and  authority  of  "  Pastor  of  the
South  Church,"  subscribing  official  papers  in  that  charac-
ter, being  habitually  spoken  of  among  the  members  of  the
Church,  and  in  Church  meetings,  by  that  official  title,  and
being  frequently  announced  to  the  public  as  Pastor  of  that
Church.
V.  Certain  members  of  the  Church,  fourteen  in  number,
being  dissatisfied  with  the  ministry  of  Mr.  Carroll,  and
desiring  that  notice  might  be  duly  given  to  him  for  the  ter-
mination of  the  arrangement,  presented  to  the  Clerk  of  the
Church  their  written  request  for  a  Church  meeting,  which
request  was  refused  by  the  Clerk  and  Standing  Committee.
VI.  Afterwards  the  same  brethren  av.d  olliers,  twenty  in
all,  addressed  their  memorial  to  the  Chiu'ch,  stating  dis-
tinctly the  grounds  of  their  dissatisfaction  with  these  pro-
ceedings and  with  the  ministry  of  Mr.  Carroll,  and  asking
for  a  Council  of  Churches,  to  be  mutually  agreed  upon,  who
should  advise  with  the  Church  and  the  complainants.  The
Clerk,  to  whose  hands  the  memorial  was  committed,  refused,
by  the  advice  of  the  Stan  ling  Committee,  to  lay  it  before
the  Church.
VII.  Between  the  time  when  the  request  was  made  for  a
Church  meeting  and  tlie  time  of  preparing  the  memorial,
some  of  the  complainants  asked  and  received  letters  of
commendation,  in  the  ordinary  form,  by  which  their  mem-

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0116. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 116. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n120/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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