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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 241
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," 231 from example or precept ; from Christ or His Apos- tles ; from sermon or ej)istle ; or from the records of the assembled Church ; therefore we also exclude all secular, or political, or semi-political themes and dis- cussions from our ministry ; therefore it is we deem it our duty to preach only the Gospel — " not to know any thing among" the people " save Christ, and Him cruci- fied;" therefore it is we judge and say with Paul, "Now then, we are ambassadors for God " — " We, then, of all persons in the world," says Toplady, " sliould religiously abstain from whatever may conduce to cherish the seeds and fan the fires of civil discord. Shocking it is when they who profess to experience and to preach the love of Christ, can so far prostitute the dignity and design of their sacred calling as to offer fulsome incense at the shrine of aggrandized authority, or seek to exasperate differing parties against each other, instead of laboring to j^reserve unity of spirit, to strengthen the bonds of peace, and promote righteousness of life. Our direct business is with the policy of an invisible and better country. On the one hand, we are to sound the trumpet, not of secular, but of sjnritual alarm ; and on the other, to proclaim to them that mourn, and to them that believe, in Zion, 'Tlie joyful news of sias forgiven, Of hell subdued and peace with heaven.' " (2) It is unnecessary. There are other places pro- vided for political instruction, and open to all. Why make the House of God a caucus room ? There are
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0241. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 241. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n245/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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