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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 244
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234 REV. MR. Carroll's sermon, pew, silent and still by custom, decorum, and the manners of New England, and the preacher turns upon him every eye in the congregation for the poli- tics he practices, and for the party to which he has attached himself? How can it be otherwise when the very first word he hears in jirayer, the very first word he hears in a hymn selected to be sung, however well it may be sung, and by whatever choir, the very first illustration in the sermon to which he may listen, sends him away gloomy and irritable, turns the whole service into a political mockery, and awakens a train of reflection that renders him, from first to last, inac- cessible to the truth, closes his ear to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely on that day ?" Is this expedient ? No. And we wonder not that multitudes endorse and repeat the saying of Henry Clay, and give it, as he did, as the reason for ceasing to attend a certain Church : " I have so much politics all the week, that I do not care to go to Church except to hear the Gospel." 0 how different the result, if ministers, especially throughout New England, held the views and imita- ted the example of Rev. Dr. Dwight, President of Yale College. In the sermon already quoted, and preached in the Chapel on the National Fast, August 20th, 1812, he says : " I wish it to be distinctly understood that, in the progress of my ol^servations, no party will be ar- raigned ; the character of no i)erson attacked ; no public measure censured ; and the feeling of no indi-
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0244. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 244. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n248/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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