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120  THE    EX-PARTE    COUNCIL.
known  not  to  be  an  Esq.  by  the  party  who  addresses  him
thus.  If  the  fact  of  our  addressing  Mr.  Carroll  as  Pastor,
be  proof  of  Ins  assuming  the  title  and  authority  of  Pastor,
why  were  not  his  predecessors,  while  they  sustained  the
same  relation  to  this  Church  that  he  does,  guilty  of  the
same  offence  when  addressed  and  eveu  spoken  of  in  print
by  the  same  title.  (See  Catalogue  of  South  Church,  E.  S.
Minor  chairman  of  publishing  committee.)
'•V.  Certain  inembei-s  of  the  Church,  fourteen  in  number,  being  dis"
satisfied  with  the  ministry  of  Mr.  Carroll,  and  desiring  that  notice
might  be  duly  given  to  him  for  the  termination  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  Com-
mittee.
"VI.  Afterwards  the  same  brethren  and  others,  twenty  in  all,  ad-
dressed their  memorial  to  the  Church,  stating  distinctly  the  grounds  of
their  dissatisfaction  with  these  proceedings  and  with  the  ministry  of
Mr.  Carroll,  and  asking  for  a  Council  of  the  Churches,  to  be  mutually
agreed  upon,  who  should  advise  witli  the  Church  and  the  complain-
ants. The  Clerk,  to  whose  hands  the  memorial  was  committed,  refused,
by  the  advice  of  the  Standing  Comniittee,  to  lay  it  before  the  Church."
They  did  refuse.  And  why?  (1.)  Because  this  very
question  about  the  continuance  of  Rev.  Mr.  Carroll's  labors
among  us,  had  been  discussed  at  great  jength  at  a  Church
meeting  specially  called  for  that  purpo'se,  not  long  before,
and  had  been  decided  in  favor  of  such  continuance  by  a  vote
of  fifty-one  to  twenty  two.  (2-)  Because  the  regular  an-
nual meeting  of  the  Church  must  be  held  in  the  ensuing
month  of  November,  when  this  whole  subject  could  be  re-
discussed  and  re-decided.
VVe  admit  that  the  literality  of  the  rule*  requires  the  Clerk
*  Note  by  the  Author  of  South  Church  History. — After  all,
there  was  no  such  rule.  It  is  not  among  the  printed  "  Standing  Rules"
of  the  Church,  where  the  duties  of  the  Clerk  are  defined,  nor  in  the
manuscript  records,  nor  any  where  else.  The  most  that  can  truly  be
said  is,  that  there  was  such  a  usage ;  but  eveu  this  was  not  uniform

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0130. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 130. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n134/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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