South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 149

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THE    EX-PARTE    COUNCIL.  139
It  was  also  stated  that  he  had  declared  in  effect,  that
were  it  not  for  personal  considerations,  he  would  go  south
of  Mason  and  Dixon's  line  and  share  the  fortune  of  the
rebellion,  with  which  cause  he  was  one  at  heart.
Has  Mr.  Carroll  forgotten  the  language  he  used  in  public
prayer  on  the  morning  of  the  Lord's  Day  wiieu  the  news
came  of  the  battle  before  Fredericksburg  'i  Certainly  those
well-considered  sentences  condemning  the  war  can  not  have
slipped  his  memory,  since  he  expressed  to  one  of  our  num-
ber a  regret  that  he  was  absent,  and  did  not  hear  the  "  talt.
prayixg"  in  the  forenoon.
In  the  matter  of  loyalty  claimed  for  the  friends  of  Mr.
Carroll — this  has  not  been  denied.  It  is  the  persistent
efforts  and  determination  of  a  few  who  hold  the  power,  to
foist  and  fix  in  the  pastorate  of  the  Church  a  man  whom
they  believe  to  be  disloyal,  of  which  the  petitioners  com-
plain. Of  the  soldiers  who  have  gone  from  the  Church
into  the  army,  we  know  of  but  one  or  two  who  have  ever
acknowledged  that  they  had  received  a  word  of  sympathy
and  encouragement  from  Mr.  Carroll,  in  regard  to  their
DUTIES  AS  .SOLDIERS.  Will  the  Congregation  ever  forget
the  deep  disappointment  that  was  felt  at  the  character  of
the  services  when  soldiers  from  the  15th  Regiment  were
present,  by  special  invitation,  to  hear  their  minister's  part-
ing counsel  ?
The  Standing  Committee  claim  that,  under  the  ministra-
tions of  Mr.  Carroll,  the  congregation  has  been  larger  than
before ;  while  the  additions  to  the  Church,  within  the  year
just  closed,  have  been  forty-three — "a  larger  number  than
in  any  year  of  the  previous  nine  years."
To  this  it  may  be  replied,  that  at  least  seventy  mem-
bers, including  the  petitioners,  have  left  during  the  year,  or
are  ready  to  leave  the  Church  when  another  place  of  wor-
ship shall  be  provided,  because  of  their  dislike  to  Mr.  Car-
roll's ministrations  :  and  that  in  the  year  1857  the  number
of  members  admitted  to  the  Church  was  forty-seven.
It  may  be  stated  for  the  information  of  those  interested
in  our  object,  that  already  a  larger  sum  has  been  pledged
by  i)ersons  in  the  vicinity  of  the  South  Church  to  support
the  preaching  of  the  Gospel,  in  case  a  new  Church  is  formed,
than  has  ever  been  raised  in  one  year  by  that  Church  for

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0149. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 149. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n153/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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