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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 118
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108 THE EX-PAKTE COUNCIL. no recognition of the righteousness of the cause in which sons and brothers of the complainants, some of them mem- bers of the same Church, are offering their lives. 3. In the pulpit and in private conversation he has char- acterized the action of the Government as tyrannical and unjust, and has implied that the attempt of the Government to maintain itself by force against the rebellion, is criminal; and when members of the Church have courteously inquired of him concerning his views, that they might know whether he had been misunderstood on these points, he has refused to give any satisiactory answer. 4. He lias borne no testimony against the wicked doc- trine of these times, that it is right for white men to make slaves of black men ; but on the contrary, he has used his influence to suppress in the meetings of the Church all allusion to the injustice of slavery. 5. He has by his private and public influence brought certain young [)ersons of the congregation hito open sym- pathy with the existing rebellion. These being the facts as we find them, our judgment is, First. It is a distinctive and cardinal principle of our New England Congregationalism, tluit no person yhall be invested with the pastoral othce in any Church, otherwise than by tlie advice and consent uf neighboring churches represented in a council ; that a minority, liowever humble, objecting to the person chosen by the majority of the Church, may have full opportunitj' to present the reasons for their disst-nt before llie council convened for the pur- pose of ordaining or installing liini ; and that no man can be imposed u])on them as their pastor, unless their objec- tions, after a fair hearing and consideration, are removed or overruled by the council. Second. Mr. Carroll is not, in the proper use of lan- guage, pastor of the South Congregational Church in New Hayen, nor is he "Acting Pastor," as that term is defined by the General Association of Connecticut. Any assump- tion of the title of ])astor on his i)art is unwarranted, and the arrangements and proceedings by which he has been invested with the powers of a pastor in that (^'hurch, with- out the intervention of a council of neighboring churches to
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0118. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 118. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n122/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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