South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 136

Searchable source text

126  THE    EX-PAllTE    COUNCIL.
the  Congreji-atioiial  Churches  and  ministers  of  Connecticut,  or  with  any
evangehcal  denomination."
^\Tiy  did  the  complainants  have  no  proper  evidence  that
Mr.  Carroll  was  a  minister  in  regular  communion  with  any
evangelical  denomination  1  Simply  because  the  complain-
ants, for  reasons  l)est  known  to  themselves,  never  asked
him,  or  they  would  have  had  proper  evidence  that  he  was
an  ordained  Minister  of  the  Gospel  in  regular  communion
with  the  Old  School  Presbyterian  denomination, — a  gradu-
ate of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in  the  class  of
1855,  ordained  and  installed  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  at
Jamesburg,  N.  J.,  May  30th,  in  the  same  year,  by  the
Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick.  Rev.  Dr.  Hall,  of  Tren-
ton, N.  J.,  preached  the  sermon  ;  Eev.  Dr.  Hodge,  of  Prince-
ton, N.  J.,  proposed  the  constitutional  questions ;  Rev.
Prof.  Green,  of  Princeton,  delivered  the  charge  to  the  Pas-
tor ;  and  Rev.  Dr.  McDonald,  of  Princeton,  delivered  the
charge  to  the  people.  [See  records  and  roll  of  the  New
Brunswick  Presbytery.]
"  2.  Uniler  his  ministry,  tliere  lias  been  in  tlie  pubUe  worsliip  of  that
Ciuirch,  and  in  the  lessons  from  the  pulpit,  no  utterance  of  symyathy
with  our  country  in  its  struggle  for  unity  and  life;  no  expression  of
loyal  desire  for  the  success  of  the  Government,  or  the  defeat  of  the
rebellion;  no  word  implying  that  the  attempt  of  the  rebels  to  subvert
by  force  the  Government  ordained  by  God  in  this  land,  is  criminal;  no
recognition  of  the  riglitcousness  of  the  cause  in  which  sons  and  broth-
ers of  the  complainants,  some  of  tlaem  members  of  the  same  Church,
are  offering  their  hves."
Is  it  not  extraordinary  that  under  such  influences  the
friends  of  Mr.  Carroll  in  the  South  Church  and  congregation
have  sent  quite  as  many  men  to  engage  in  tiie  service  of
their  country  as  have  the  petitioners  and  their  friends  in  the
same  Church  and  congregation  ?  At  least  thirteen  of  the
former  class  are  or  liavo  been  in  that  service  by  voluntary
enlistment— most  of  tliem  for  a  period  of  three  years.  Is  it
not  strange  that  the  Council  should  make  such  statements
as  those  above  quoted,  in  the  face  of  such  facts  as  we  have
presented,  and  of  such  "  utterances  "  as  are  expressed  in  the

Cite this page

Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0136. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 136. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n140/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

Historic U.S. publication before 1931; public-domain assessment based on publication date. Internet Archive does not necessarily provide an explicit license. Preserve publication and digitizing credits.