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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 250
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240 REV. MR. CARROLL'S SERMON, Jew or Gentile. The great secret of their success in organizing and establishing Churches in the various countries through which they passed, and amid <;ivil revolutions and convulsions, was this : Apostolic ercclusion of the secular, and inclusion only of the spiritual. It was the ignoring of this principle — the obliteration of this demarcation and distinction — the departure of ministers and Churches from Apostolic and primitive Church examples, that caused her sub- sequent and signal defeats ; her comparatively few and feeble triumphs ; and in this land at least, has written "Icliabud" on Llio Church of God. True, as mi^niDraljle, are the words of Edmund Burke : " Politics and the pidpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in tlie Church but the voice of healing charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of Keligion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the cliaracter they leave and the c}iaracter they assume. Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperi- enced in all its aifairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the Churcli is a ])lace where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind." r am aware tliat th(>se views concerning the sphere and duties of the gospel ministry in this respect, are
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0250. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 250. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n254/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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