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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 187
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.
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CHAPTER VI. MISCELLANEOUS. New Year's Greetings, January, 1864. — While the discussion about the Ex-par te Council was going forward in tlie newsjiapers, as recorded in the pre- ceding chapter, the South Church people, desiring to express their undiminished confidence in their minis- ters, presented to Mr. Carroll the following Address, signed by more than a hundred and thirty members of his Church and congregation, together with a New Year's gift of five hundred dollars. To his associate, Rev. Myron Barrett, they presented a variety of good things, including a well filled purse, accompanied by an appropriate address from the Senior Deacon. To THE Rev. J. Halsted Carroll : Dear Pastor, — The undersigned members of the South Church and congregation desire to give you some token of our undiminished confidence in your fidelity to every im- portant interest which falls within the range of your duties as a Christian minister, or as a citizen of our common country : and with this view we beg your acceptance of the enclosed $500 as a New Year's Gift.' Most of us, you are aware, are in moderate circumstances pecuniarily, — other- wise we would make the sum correspond more nearly to the proportions of our affection and gratitude to our beloved Pastor ; for such you are, practically and in eflFect, and such we will call you, even though masters in Isi*ael should command us to hold our peace. Would to God that all 15*
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0187. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 187. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n191/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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