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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 246
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236 REV. MR. Carroll's sermon, the world that I had left, and which I should have been willing, for that day at least, to have forgotten forever/' * (4) My Ordination Vows forbid it. What says the Constitution of my Church, which every Presby- terian minister in his ordination vows declares " he sincerely receives and adopts as containing the system of doctrines taught in the Holy Scriptures ? " " Syn- ods or councils are to handle or conclude nothing but what is ecclesiastical ; and are not to intermeddle with civil affairs which concern the commonwealth." Can this be a reason why ordination by the Presbyte- rian Church is here practically repudiated ? And was the literal f alfillment of this vow by me, regarded as equivalent to a forfeiture of my credentials as an ordained minister of Jesus ? However this may be, " It is a very small thing that I should be judged of man's judgment ! " Man's judg- ment cannot affect my views of duty while I believe them to be right in the judgment and sight of God ; and therefore I still say with a brother minister, " that the point from which I regard and deal with men has never been as citizens of the commonwealth having civil duties to perform, but as ' fallen sinners, having need of salvation ; ' and the great thing at which I have aimed, and to which I have subordi- nated every thing else, is, to bring them to the Cross, to reconcile them to God through the blood of the Lamb, and to imbue them with the Spirit of the * See Mcmoriiil Volume, pp. ?>2, 38.'
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0246. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 246. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n250/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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