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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 254
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244 REV. MR. Carroll's sermon, was "full." And see, as he rises to the realization of them — as the celestial convoy, upbearing him on im- mortal wings, nears the radiant hills, exultingly chant- ing, " lift up your heads, 0 ye gates" — lo ! these gates of flashing pearl wide open swing, while angel and archangel wake their harps to louder, loftier strains, sweeping them to the hallelujah anthem of Heaven's Harvest Home, because another matured soul has been ingathered to the garner of glory, " as a shock of corn cometh in in his season," ripe and " full." Mid heav- enly music, re-echoing his epitaph — " full" — bending before the throne to receive into his soul " fullness of joy," yea, " the fullness of the God-head," — we leave him. Not on the battle-plain, none by to quench the death-thirst or wipe the death-dew from the brow, but at home, mid its gentle, loving ministries, — a home fragrant Avith the incense of prayer, and per- fumed with the name of Jesus, — we saw the other soldier* member die. Standing by the bedside, where pain had made stone the downy pillow, we saw that scene of suffer- ing transfigured into a Bethel, with its vision, and typical ladder leaned against the sky ; saw the cham- l)er, darkened l)y the death-wing, made lustrous with the flashing of angel pinions, hovering there to carry the fluttering soul, all radiant and ready, to the pearly gates of its liome ! As the j^ulse grew weaker, and the breath shorter, the heart was fuller and the * John Crosby.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0254. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 254. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n258/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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