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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 235
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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''THE MEMORIAL STONE." 225 of God may discourse political declamation upon moot points that divide our great political parties. Either because these men find the duties of their sacred profession so light and their consequent leisure so abundant ; or because they regard the care of souls so trivial a concern in comparison with the general enlightenment of society on these political questions ; or, it may be, because they regard them- selves as men of such prodigious powers and special inspiration, as to make it their extraordinary call to leave to their humbler and less gifted brethren the care of the ark in the fields of Bethshemish, while they strive about the golden mice with the lords of the Philistines." We believe such a course to be unscriptural, and ask for the Bible warrant. We cannot appeal on this point to Old Testament examples. For, it has been observed justly, there is no parallel between their government and our own. Theirs was Theocratic. With them, Church and State were one and the same. " What was political was ecclesiastical," and therefore pertained legiti- mately and necessarily to the ministers of religion. But does it follow that what was lawful and a neces- sity for the Jewish prophet, is either Avith the New Testament minister who does not live under a Theo- cracy ; where Church and State are not identified, or so much as united ; where things political are 7iot ecclesiastical ? 19*
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0235. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 235. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n239/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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