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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 248
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238 REV. MR. CARROLL'S SERMON, Behold that blind man ; it is Bartimeus. " They have let him know that the healer of the blind is near ; and I am sure that nothing they could say- about anything else, could make up for not telling him that. The most eloquent harangue on the poli- tics of the times, though Pilate, and Herod, and Caesar, and Roman eagles, and Jewish banners, and liberty, and nationality, and destiny, had rolled with splendid imagery through sounding periods, would have been a sad exchange for those simple words, — ' Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.' Nor would Aristo- tle's keenest logic, nor Plato's finest speculations, have served a whit better. The man was blind, and wanted his eyes opened ; and these things, however set forth, were but trash and mockery." — '■^ Blind Bartimeus," pp. 83-84. (6) It degrades and divides the Church of God. It degrades the Church. Edward Everett in a sermon "On the dedication of the First Congrega- tional Church in New York," administers a pertinent rebuke to those ministers and disciples of Christ who insist upon generating secular associations and kind- ling wordly excitements in the house of God, by the introduction of political themes. He says : " We dedicate our house to God ; to no earthly power, to no human name, but to God, who reigns on high. It is henceforth not ours, but His ; we resign, devote and consecrate it to Him." " We dedicate it to the o-lorious cause of tlie gospel. It is sacred henceforth to that alone. Let no other message be ever heard
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0248. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 248. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n252/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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