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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 245

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"  THE  MEMORIAL  STONE."  235
vidiKil  wounded.  All  who  are  here,  or  all  who  are
elsewhere,  will  be  considered  merely  as  creatures  of
the  same  Grod  ;  as  bound  to  the  same  eternity  ;  as
alike  interested  in  renouncing  sin  and  returning  to
holiness  ;  and  as  bound  alike  to  regard  the  work  of
the  Lord  as  the  operation  of  His  hand."
0  how  different  the  result,  if  the  tribute  the  great
Rufus  Choate  paid  his  Pastor,  could  be  truthfully
given  to  every  minister  in  New  England  ;  if  every
parishioner  could  assign  it,  as  he  did,  as  one  reason,
not  for  leaving,  but  attending  Church.     He  says  :
"  Every  one  of  us  assuredly  felt,  as  we  came  here
from  Sunday  to  Sunday,  and  took  our  seats  in  our
pews,  that  we  should  hear  nothing  in  the  world  but
Religion  preached  from  the  pulpit,  and  no  manner  of
politics.  State  or  National,  directly  or  indirectly  ;
nothing  connected  in  the  remotest  degree  with  the
party  considerations  or  organizations  of  the  day.  We
came  here,  if  we  came  as  we  professed  we  did,  to  hear
of  those  things  which  pertain  to  Religion,  to  the  sal-
vation of  the  soul,  and  to  the  rest  everlasting.  And
I  have  uniformly  found  it  to  be  true,  that  I  heard
nothing,  was  assailed  by  nothing,  was  secularized  by
nothing,  was  defended  or  attacked  by  nothing  which
I  had  done,  nothing  for  which  I  had  voted  or  acted
in  the  political  world  without.  Never  in  an  intro-
ductory prayer,  never  in  a  hymn,  occasionally  or  in
the  ordinary  course  of  public  worship  selected,  never
by  any  illustration  in  any  sermon,  by  any  train  of
association,  right  or  wrong,  was  I  carried  back  into

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0245. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 245. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n249/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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