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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 257
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"the memorial stone." 247 • sphere, ere the winds chilled or the rains stained it, leaving the world it blessed, and the skies through which it passed, still sweet with its lingering fragrance, to its glory, us an ever-unfolding flower in the blessed Garden of God ! Surely prolonged life on earth hath no boon like this ! For such mortal loveliness to put on immortality — to rise from the carnal with so little memory of earth that the mother's cradle seemed to have been rocked in the house of many mansions — to have no experience of a wearied mind and chilled affections, but from a child's joyous heart, growing up into the power of an archangelic intellect — to be raptured as a blessed babe through the gates of Par- adise. Ah ! this is better than to w^atch as an old Prophet for the car of fire in the valley of Jordan." Come, my people, come, and sadly, yet smiling through our tears, let us set up the stone, and on it an " Ebenezer" too, when it is a memorial unto us of '•' garnered immortaliiy." ^ Great deliverances, or exemptions from evil, imply great positive blessings. To some of these I have alluded in passing. Others must be omitted for want of time. But I cannot forbear to dwell for a moment, — Lastly, — Upon the Positive Features of our Deliverance from Spiritual Declension, so far at least as they are shown by outiuard results, — and for them to raise the monumental pillar.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0257. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 257. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n261/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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