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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 267
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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"the memorial stone." 257 rapidly the years go by ! Nine years ago this month, I knelt at the altar, and was ordained a minister of Jesus ; eleven years and a half since, you were organ- ized as a Church of Christ. All these years of my ministry, and your liistory, gone — beyond recall. Let us '' redeem the time ;" •'Do something, do it soon, with all our might; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest ;" remembering we are co-workers with God — and "God himself inactive were no longer blest" — remembering too the days of toil are nearly over, and days of remaining rest and reward nearly ours. Then, brethren, let us work — work for our own soul's sake, for this dear Church's sake, for Christ's sakg, with all the energy which the hastening glories of our on-coming Eternity can inspire. Very close to this Eternity do we lift our memorial pillar to-day ; like Samuel's, even within sight of the holy city. "Why see, see — the very glory that i:»lays upon its summit, is light flashed from the pinnacles so near, of the heavenly Jerusalem !" while the golden radiance streaming through the now open portal, reveals in letters of living light traced by the hand of God, that epitome of our history and our hope, — " Eben- EZER," " Ei?en-ezer." Amen, Amen. 22
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0267. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 267. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n271/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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