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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 121

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THE    EX-PARTE    COUNCIL.  Ill
regular  standing  as  professed  followers  of  Christ  in  full
communion  with  the  Congregational  Churches  of  Connecti-
cut, and  commending  them  to  any  Church  with  which  they
may  choose  to  connect  themselves,  or  to  any  ecclesiastical
council  which  may  be  convened  for  the  purpose  of  recog-
nizing the  formation  of  a  new  Church.  The  question
whether  they  shall  proceed  to  constitute  a  new  Church  in
the  south  part  of  the  city  of  Xew  Haven,  is  a  question  to
be  determined  partly  by  local  considerations,  with  which
they,  and  the  members  of  the  other  Churches  here,  are  bet-
ter acquainted  than  this  Council  can  be.  Yet  we  cannot
refrain  from  saying  that,  for  the  sake  of  patriotism  and  of
pure  and  undefiled  religion,  there  ought  to  be  among  the
growing  population  of  that  quarter  a  truly  Congregational
Church,  from  which  the  sympathies  of  patriotic  Christian
souls  may  freely  go  up  to  God  on  the  wings  of  prayer  and
praise,  and  in  which  the  whole  counsel  of  God,  "revealed
from  heaven  against  all  ungodliness  and  unrighteousness  of
men  who  hold  the  truth  in  unrighteousness,"  shall  be
preached  plainly  and  unswervingly.
REV.  JOSEPH  ELDRIDGE,
Moderator.
TV.  T.  EusTis,  Scribe.
REPLY  OF  THE  SOUTH  CHURCH
To  THE  LATE  ECCLESIASTICAL  COUNCIL.
The  following  reply  of  the  Standing  Committee  of
the  South  Congregational  Church,  to  the  action  of
the  Ex-parte  Council  recently  held  in  this  city,  was
submitted  to  said  Church  on  Friday  evening,  Jan.
1st,  1864,  and  by  the  Church  was  unanimously
approved,  and  ordered  to  be  published.
Whereas,  an  Ex-parte  Council,  representing  twelve  of
the  two  hundred  and  twenty-two  consociated  Congrega-
tional Churches  in  this  State,  has  been  lately  held  in  New
Haven,  at  the  request  of  twenty  petitioners,  now  or  recently

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0121. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 121. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n125/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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