South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 190

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180  MISCELLANEOUS.
have  devoted  to  His  service.  We  have  seen  you  in  the
conference  room,  the  prayer  meeting,  the  chamber  of  sick-
ness, the  home  of  poverty,  and  the  house  of  mourning ;
have  known  and  shared  your  faithful,  judicious,  unremit-
ting labors  as  a  spiritual  counsellor  and  guide ;  have
admired  the  meekness  with  which  you  bore  reproach  and
all  manner  of  misrepresentation — when  reviled,  reviling
not  again ;  in  short,  following  the  example  and  teachings
of  your  blessed  Master,  in  this  the  most  difficult,  or  one  of
the  most  difficult  parts  of  the  Christian  life.
We  have  known  your  historj^ — the  honored  son  of  a  dis-
tinguished father,  the  late  Rev.  D.  L.  Carroll,  D.D.,  whom
several  of  us  loved  as  our  Pastor  when  settled  in  Litchfield,
Conn.,  as  the  successor  of  Rev.  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher, — of
your  graduating  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  before
you  were  eighteen  years  of  age,  having  already  consecrated
yourself  and  your  all  to  Christ;  of  your  graduating  at
Princeton  Seminary,  where  you  received  your  theological
education  ;  of  your  ordination  to  the  ministerial  office  and
installation  as  Pastor  in  1855,  by  some  of  the  most  distin-
guished ministers  of  the  Presbyterian  Church ;  your  great
success  as  a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  not  only  in  New  Jersey,
where  you  were  first  settled  and  remained  until  excessive
labors  broke  down  your  health,  but  wherever  else  you  have
statedly  dispensed  the  Word  of  Life.  Even  in  this  South
Church  of  New  Haven,  during  a  period  of  unusual  spiritual
dearth  in  the  Churches  generally  throughout  the  land,  the
blessing  of  God  has  attended  your  labors  and  those  of
your  worthy  colleague,  to  a  degree  which  calls  for  our
united  thanksgiving.
Our  records  show  that  the  accessions  to  our  Church
membership  within  the  past  year,  have  been  larger,  except
two,  than  in  any  of  the  284  Churches  in  the  State.  Our
congregations  on  the  Sabbath  and  Sabbath  evenings,  and
also  on  week-day  evenings,  have  been,  and  still  are,  much
larger  than  under  any  previous  ministry,  except  for  a  short
period  during  the  incumbency  of  Rev.  Dr.  Stiles.  And
this  notwithstanding  the  opposition  of  individuals  within
your  own  Church,  and  a  much  larger  number  out  of  it,
culminating  at  last  in  the  convocation  and  fizzle  of  the  late

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0190. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 190. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n194/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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