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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 266
Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Includes an alphabetical past-member list, death dates and explanations of death and dismissal symbols. Also contains sermons and church history. A dismissal to another church is not a death.
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256 REV, MR. CARROLL'S SERMON, And I hope by thy good pleasure, Safely to arrive at home. 0, to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be 1 Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter, Bind my wandering lieart to thee. • Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it ; Prone to leave the God I love ; Here's ni}' heart, 0 take and seal it, Seal it for thy courts above.'' To conclude : — Let God's watch and ward through these ordeal years, His precious deliverances and positive bless- ings, quichen our faith, and impel to greater effort during the new year which dawns so brightly on us to-day. Think not the stone we set uj) here, and now, is merely an Eben-ezer of the past ; it is likewise an Eben-ezer unto the future.. Then, let memory and hope be busy ; while one recalls divine goodness, let the other anticipate divine aid ; and while recol- lection of past guardianship insjHres re-dedication and re-consecration, let expectation of a helping Omnipotence urge to a more zealous and strenuous performance of our work ; a work, the results of which, grasp Eternity for their duration. Brethren, remember, — " the time is short ;" the time for the accomplishment of this mighty work. " The night Cometh," Be admonished, then, by these fast fleeting years, " to work while it is called to-day,'' 0, ho"W
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0266. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 266. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n270/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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