UNITARIANS. 



UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST. 747 



that \ve insist thiit tin- fruits of our p< 



Wull liv -M. -li \ i-t vueritires Ullil tllltiilil hull.: 



tiliull not tic lost in an evil Lour to our country uinl to 



till' n >! |.|. 



:imst ]irofo\in<lly sympathize 



willi inir t'elhiw-eoiintryiiieii, both white and Mack, in 



the Smith, in all the [>er seeutions und triul.s ti> \\ hieh 



they arc- sul-jeeted, and tliut we will give ourselves 



: until hlaek and u bite alike are secure in the 



ei.|.i\ in -lit of th.- ri^lit nf suffrage, and of nil the 



:ul immunities of free citizens of a free 



JkeolctJ, That while other denominations of Chris- 

 tians ure beginning to feel their obligations to the 

 four millions ol liberated slaves in the South, and to 

 do their port to educate and Christianize them, ue, 

 uld In- deeply impressed with a sense of our 

 own duty to these poor and lone-afflicted classes of our 

 common humanity, and we desire and purpose to 

 fulfil our appropriate part of the work of lifting them 

 up to a higher level of civilized life and spiritual 

 progress. 



The Rev. K. W. Bellows, D. D., Artemns 

 Carter, tho Rev. J. F. Clarke, D. D., the Kcv. 

 Charles Lowe, Warren Sawyer, tin- Rev. A. D. 

 Mayo, 0. 8. May, Charles E. Guild, Esq., the 

 Kev. E. E. Hale, and O. G. Steele, were de- 

 clared members of the "Council of Ten," who, 

 with tho president, vice-presidents, and secre- 

 tariesof the meeting, constitute the officersof tho 

 National Conference until the next meeting of 

 the Cor.ference. 



Rev. Charles Lowe, Secretary of the Amer- 

 ican T/nitarian Association, pave a condensed 

 statement of what the association had done the 

 past year, in order to show what support it 

 deserved. During the year 1866 it had aided 

 fifty-nine feeble societies, giving opportunities 

 of hearing Unitarian doctrines preached in 107 

 places where they had not been held before, 

 and employed 19 missionaries forHhree months 

 or mere, besides 87 others for longer or shorter 

 periods, 



The convention voted to raise $200,000 dur- 

 ing the current year for expenditure in the gen- 

 eral missionary work, to sustain feeble churches, 

 to carry the missionaries of the church to the out- 

 posts of civilization on our own continent, plant- 

 ing the standard of the Gospel in new fields, 

 di.-tributing the literature of the Unitarian 

 Church, ami in aid of religious young men who 

 desire to devote themselves to tho work of the 

 (iospel ministry. 



In accordance with the resolution concerning 

 the organization of local conferences, a number 

 of such conferences was organized in the last 

 month of the year 1866. (A full list is given in 

 the " Year-book of the Unitarian Congregational 

 Churches," for 1867.) In order to promote co- 

 operation with Dniversalists and other " liberal 

 Christians," a number of conferences of lib- 

 eral Christians was organized. One of the 

 first conferences of this class was the 4> New 

 York Central Conference of Liberal Christians," 

 in the organization of which at Rochester, No- 

 vember, 1866, 22 Universalist, 7 Unitarian, and 

 1 "Christian Connection" clergymen, with a 

 number of lay delegates, took part. According 

 to the constitution of this conference its object 



"shall bo to promote the religious lift- and mutual 

 h.vmpnthy of the. churches which unit.- in it, 

 and to enable them to cooperate in missionary 

 and other work." Tho conference "hall be 

 composed of all accredited clergymen 

 churches within its limits, and each church, col- 

 lege, and Christian society, may bo repre 

 1 > y t \v o lay delegates." The officers of tl i < 

 ference were authorized to advise in the settle- 

 ment, in such localities as may require their 

 mediation, of any diU'erenees arising as to tho 

 name, union, and denominational connection of 

 a society or church. 



I SITED BRETHREN IN CIIir.-T. This 

 denomination published, in 1866, for the first 

 time, a denominational almanac, from which 

 we gather the following intelligence concern- 

 ing their present condition and history : 



Tennessee Mission No. of members, 200; Ken- 

 tucky Mission No. of members, 400. 



The organization of the United Brethren dates 

 from 1774,thugh the first annual confereni 

 not held until 1800, nor the first general con- 

 ference until 1815. In doctrine it is Arminian, 

 and in polity Mt-thodistic; while, with regard 



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