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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 224
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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214 REV. MR. CARROLL'S SERMON, blessings, and brightened witli so many sanguine hopes. That the inscription of onr hearts upon the stone we set up should be Ebenezer, i. e. " stone of help," will appear if we, as a Church, recall our manifold deliver aiices. And 1st. — Our deliverance from Financial Embar- rassments. A most gracious deliverance. Kead the initial chapter of our history. The Church sprang almost from nothing, in a destitute and neglected portion of the city, where there were few worshippers, and still fewer who were able and willing to assist in the enter- prize ; without a congregation ; with scarcely a word of encouragement and Christian cheer ; and encoun- tering the opposition of those who regard it a pious duty to annul all proceedings, and annoy all persons who do not humbly seek and secure their imprimatur, and who, over the freshly laid foundation stones, and even over the finished walls, snceringly asked, "What do these feeble folk ? Will they fortify ? Will they sacrifice ? Verily, if a fox go up, he will break down their stone wall." But these stone walls still stand, spite of all the foxes ; and though their erection, and the sustaining of the means of grace within them since, have cost one hundred thousand dollars, both Church and Society are out of debt, and always have been.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0224. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 224. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n228/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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