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UNIVERSALISTS. 



VELPEAU, ALFRED A. L. M. 



tation. The declaration was finally adopted, 

 only one voting in the negative. 



The following resolution was adopted on the 

 state of the country : 



Resolved. That this Convention reaffirms its abiding 

 faith in the great Christian principles of human 

 brotherhood, and its conviction that these should de- 

 termine the spirit and form of all civil institutions, as 

 well as guide the affairs of private life, and while re- 

 joicing that the strife of arms has closed so victori- 

 ously in vindication of the nation's life and unity, we 

 deem it important to recognize the fact that the war 

 of ideas concerning these matters is still in progress, 

 and that the highest claims of Christian duty demand 

 that the principles above named shall constitute the 

 nation's guide, so that the vast sacrifice of blood and 

 treasure which we have made shall not be lost to us 

 and to the world's progress. 



Resolved,, That with peculiar satisfaction we recall 

 the fact that the denomination and the denomina- 

 tional press so generally have been loyal to these 

 principles as constituting the Divine rule of right in 

 all civil affairs. 



The " Northwestern Conference of Universal- 

 ists "has been declared to be auxiliary to the 

 General Convention, and is required to make 

 an annual report of its doings to the trustees 

 of the latter body. The Conference in 1867 

 was held in Chicago, on November 8th. The 

 following resolutions were passed relative to 

 continuing the particular organization as Uni- 

 versalists : 



Whereas, The father of the Universalist denomina- 

 tion, because of the prevailing bigotry and error, 

 found it necessary to provide a separate Christian or- 

 ganization ; and, whereas, the maintenance of that 

 separate existence is required alike by the demands 

 of fidelity to the truth providentially committed to 

 our charge, the door of success opened to our com- 

 munion and labor, and the religious darkness still in 

 the land ; therefore, 



Resolved, That while holding fast to our peculiar 

 faith, we, nevertheless, recognize the right of per- 

 sonal judgment, and the claims of different methods 

 of labor, and are, therefore, ready to fellowship and 

 cooperate in every good word and work with all who 

 love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. 



It was voted to raise $25,000 for church exten- 

 sion and denominational purposes, and $4,000 

 were raised on the spot. The ministerial dele- 

 gates promised to bring the claims of the Freed- 

 men's Aid Bureau before their congregations. 



A doctrinal controversy of considerable in- 

 terest occurred in School-Street Church, Boston, 

 the junior pastor, Rev. Rowland Connor, hold- 

 ing and preaching views similar to those of the 

 progressive Unitarians. At a meeting of the 



pew -holders, on July 30th, it was voted, fifty- 

 eight to twenty-three, that he be immediately 

 dismissed. Mr. Connor, with his friends, took 

 a hall in Boston, and organized an association 

 to be known as the "Fraternal Association of 

 Universalists." At the meeting of the State 

 Convention of Massachusetts, Mr. Connor's 

 fraternity applied for admission to the Conven- 

 tion. Mr. Connor made a statement of his 

 principles, but after a debate of two days the 

 request was denied by a vote of ninety-five to 

 sixteen. 



The statistics of Universalism in British 

 America are as follows: Nova Scotia, two 

 ministers, two societies, two meeting-houses; 

 New Brunswick, two societies, one minister ; 

 Canada West (Ontario), three societies, three 

 meeting-houses, two ministers; Canada East 

 (Quebec), two ministers. 



In England, the Universalists, in 1860, had 

 only three congregations. But their distinctive 

 view of universal salvation has a number of ad- 

 herents among the members of the Protestant 

 churches of Great Britain, Germany, and other 

 countries. 



URUGUAY ("The Oriental Republic of 

 Uruguay "), a republic in South America. Pro- 

 visional President, since 1865, General Venancio 

 Flores.* Area, 73,538 square miles; popula- 

 tion, in 1860, according to an official census, 

 240,965 ; in 1864, according to a circular from 

 the Minister of the Interior, 350,000, among 

 whom were 150,000 foreigners. The army was 

 composed, in 1864, as follows: garrison of the 

 capital, 1,300 ; garrison in the provinces, 1,500 ; 

 national guard, 20,000. The following table 

 shows the value of imports and exports, and 

 the revenue from customs in 1862 and 1866: 



The number of vessels which, in 1866, en- 

 tered the port of Montevideo, was as follows : 



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VELPEAU, ALFRED ARM AND Lours MARIE, 

 the most distinguished of French surgeons, was 

 born at Brehe, a small village near Tours, May 

 18, 1795 ; died in Paris, August 24, 1867. His 

 father was a blacksmith, and, like many of his 

 trade, practised veterinary surgery to some ex- 

 tent, and the son early assisted him in this 

 branch of his business ; and though the only 



medical books his father possessed were " Hip- 

 piatrics" and "The Poor Man's Physician," 

 young Yelpeau, having mastered them, com- 

 menced practising medicine in his native village. 

 He soon nearly killed a patient with an over- 

 dose of black hellebore. A neighboring phy- 



* General Flores was assassinated in February, 1868. ' 



