New Haven · Membership and death references

South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 180

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.

Read original page Repository PDF · page 180 About this source

Searchable source text

170  THE    EX-PARTE    COUNCIL.
home  because  they  are  in  no  other  fold  but  Christ's.
They  know  that  the  South  Church  can  have  no
denominational  ends  to  answer, — no  ambition  to  grat-
ify except  in  doing  good,  —  that  it  welcomes  with
equal  cordiality  good  men  and  women  of  whatever
Christian  name, — and  that  they  are  safe  there  from
the  agitations  and  storms  which  beset  most  other
Christian  organizations.  We  speak  of  the  South
Church  as  it  now  is,  and  not  as  it  was  before  the
action  of  the  Ex-parte  Council.
8.  The  aggregate  effect  of  all  these  influences  is,  to
place  the  South  Church  on  a  far  more  substantial
basis  than  ever  before  ;  to  enlarge  its  congregations  ;
to  increase  its  revenue  ;  to  bind  its  members  together
in  strong  bonds  of  Christian  fellowship  ;  in  short,  to
make  them  an  eminently  united  and  happy  people,
whose  God  is  the  Lord.  If  these  things  are  so,  it  is
plain  that  whoever  else  may  liave  cause  to  regret  the
action  of  the  Council,  the  South  Church  has  none.
9.  Even  if  the  Council  could  build  a  Chinese  wall
between  their  own  Churches  and  the  South  Church,
the  latter  would  still  have  scope  enough  in  the
"  wide,  wide  world,''  from  which  to  obtain  recruits  to
its  ranks,  and  all  the  better  for  being  compelled  to
obtain  them,  to  a  large  extent,  from  the  enemy's
kingdom,  rather  than  from  other  Churches,  A  change
of  members  from  one  Church  to  another  is  rarely  of
any  great  advantage  to  the  cause  of  Christ ;  but  when
converts  are  gained  from  the  ranks  of  sin,  and  become
shining  lights,  that  is  a  change  wliich  makes  angels

Cite this page

Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0180. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 180. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n184/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.