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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 226
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216 REV, MR. Carroll's sermon, in excluding politics, have been re-absorbed in more congenial folds. No lonorer need our labors and strength be expended on a factious opposition minor- ity, to neutralize their disastrous efforts to dismember and destroy, but can be devoted wholly to the direct advancement of the legitimate and spiritual objects of the Redeemer's Kingdom. Oh, this merciful deliverance ! — This longed-for, welcome blessing, who can over-estimate ! Actually permitted to possess our souls in peace, — to " maintain the unity of tlic faith," yet in " the bonds of peace!" Alas for that people who are given up to envying and strife and cruel criticism ; for they are thereby declared deserted of God, and may expect, as they will have, barren ordinances, — and their pastors, of course, a barren ministry. Ah, here then is a great deliverance ; deliverance from strife, and as a se- quence, from " confusion and every evil work," which must be entailed upon any people where even a part would rather, as Matthew Henry says, " hear them- selves speak, though it be to misrepresent and malign, than to enjoy the peace of God, and the teachings of His Spirit." For redemption from dissension we raise the pillar, and on it the significant inscription — "Ebenezer !" 3(1. — Delivorancc from Declension and Spiritual Lethargy. This Sabbath, two years ago, in great physical weakness, 1 preached my first sermon to a small
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0226. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 226. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n230/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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