New Haven · Membership and death references
South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 165
Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Includes an alphabetical past-member list, death dates and explanations of death and dismissal symbols. Also contains sermons and church history. A dismissal to another church is not a death.
Searchable source text
THE EX-PARTE COUNCIL. 155 power of God unto salvation, should be eclipsed by nearer, but infinitely less important objects," "At least SEVENTY members, including the petitioners, have left [the South Church] during the year, or are ready to leave the Church when another place of worship shall be provided, because of their dislike to Mr. Carroll's ministrations." We have learned to be somewhat distrustful of the calcu- lations of the petitioners. Thus far they have done the Church no harm, but good, by leaving it. Notwitiistanding secessions, the immber of members is larger than when Mr. Carroll first came among us. The audiences are also larger. They are larger since the holding of the Council than before. What the petitioners and their "sympathizers" may be able to accomplish hkreafteu, of course we do not know. But, at present, we feel no uneasiness ai)out it. We only hope they will be as comfortable and happy in their new relations as we are in ours. It is the general feeling among the members, that the ])rospects of the Church were never better. Now that Mr. Carroll has declined the call to New York, we all breathe more freely, and expect to prosper greatly, if his life and health are spared, and if God continues to bless his labors among us. '■Alreadj' a larger sum has been pledged b}- persons 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 the same purpose, aside from the contributions of one individual.'' In a paragraph quoted above, the petitioners speak of the Church as "sustained * * * almost entikely by the contributions of one man," and complain of tlie influence thereby exerted by him. As the petitioners and their sym- pathizers appear to have a plenty of money, the question is, why they did not curtail this one man's power, by taking upon themselves a larger portion of the burden which gave him that power. It will not answer to say that they do not like Mr. Carroll ; for he has been with us but about twenty
Cite this page
Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0165. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 165. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n169/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.