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defeated in several engagements, and order 

 was soon restored. The Government of Ru- 

 mania was charged by the Government of both 

 Turkey and Austria with fomenting disturb- 

 ances within their territories, in particular in 

 Bulgaria and among the Rumanians of Hun- 

 gary and Transylvania. The Rumanian Gov- 

 ernment denied these charges. Referring to 

 the Austrian Red Book, and the statements of 



Count Beust and Count Andrassy, who ac- 

 cused Rumania of aiming at the annexation of 

 Transylvania, one of the Rumanian ministers, 

 in the Chamber of Deputies, declared that 

 Rumania could not be indifferent to the sight of 

 the oppression of the Rumanian inhabitants of 

 Transylvania, and that if the Hungarian army 

 was to be materially increased, the Rumanians 

 were justified in adopting a similar measure. 



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UNITARIAN'S. The Year -look of the 

 Unitarian Congregational Churches for 1869 

 gives lists of 315 societies in the United States, 

 and 383 ministers. In 1868, 1 bi-monthly, 2 

 monthly, 1 semi-monthly (Sunday-school), and 

 2 weekly periodicals were published in the 

 United States, in the interest of Unitarianism. 

 The number of " Associations of Liberal Chris- 

 tians," which chiefly consist of Unitarians and 

 Universalists, increased, in 1868, from three 

 to six (for further statistics, see ANNUAL AMEEI- 

 OA-ff CYCLOPAEDIA for 1867). 



The receipts of the "American Unitarian 

 Association" in Boston, the object of which is 

 " to diffuse the knowledge and promote the 

 interests of pure Christianity," for the year 

 1868, were $91,765.21. Overtures of coopera- 

 tion from the African Methodist Episcopal 

 Church have been accepted by the Association. 

 The points to which the cooperation is to be 

 confined are : the circulation of reading-mat- 

 ter of various kinds, and the training of young 

 men as teachers and preachers in the theologi- 

 cal institutions of the African M. E. Church. 

 The special direction of expenditure is to be in 

 the hands of a joint committee, in which the 

 two bodies will be equally represented. 



The National Conference of the Unitarian 

 Churches met in New York on the 7th of Oc- 

 tober. The following amendment was adopted 

 as article ninth of the constitution : 



To secure the largest unity of the Spirit and the 

 widest practical cooperation, it is hereby understood 

 that all the declarations of this Conference, including 

 the preamble and constitution, are expressions only 

 of its majority, committing in no degree those who 

 object to them, and depend wholly for their effect 

 upon the consent they command on their own merits 

 from the churches here represented, or belonging 

 within the circle of our fellowship. 



The results of free preaching in theatres 

 were reported upon favorably, and an exten- 

 sion of the plan of theatre meetings was rec- 

 ommended, with the hope expressed that they 

 would culminate in new religious organiza- 

 tions and labors on a basis more broad than 

 any now known. The action of the American 

 Unitarian Association, in appropriating $5,000 

 to aid the African Methodist Episcopal Church 

 in the South, was commended. A committee 

 was appointed to consult upon the establish- 

 ment of a literary, scientific, and theological 

 review. The churches in England were rep- 



resented as not in as high social standing as 

 was desirable, though they contained a few, 

 but not enough, able and educated men. Res- 

 olutions were adopted of felicitation on the 

 increasing intercourse between English and 

 American churches and ministers, and in favor 

 of establishing a permanent missionary church 

 in Paris. Among the committee reports was 

 one by the Committee on Denominational Lit- 

 erature, recommending the jfliblication of an 

 introduction to the Holy Scriptures, and a 

 Commentary, a History of the Christian 

 Church, and a Family Bible by competent schol- 

 ars. The increase of churches (83, or about 

 30 per cent., since 1865) was noted as gratify- 

 ing ; but it was claimed that this did not ad- 

 equately represent the growth of Unitarianism. 

 $27,591.70, $3,136.70 above the pledges made 

 at the preceding Conference, have been re- 

 ceived for the endowment of the Theological 

 School at Meadville, Pa., and $22,150 for An- 

 tioch College. There were represented in the 

 Conference 21 associations and conferences, 

 and 175 churches. 



The Sixth Annual Convention of the Ger- 

 man Protestant League, an organization of 

 German -American Unitarians, was held in 

 Hamilton, Ohio, on June 3d. Resolutions 

 were adopted to create a beneficiary fund for 

 able students who are willing to take a thor- 

 ough theological course in the Liberal Univer- 

 sity of Heidelberg, Germany; also pronouncing 

 the publication of a Liberal Hymn-Book " an 

 absolute necessity," and to publish a German 

 Almanac and tracts. Five ministers were ad- 

 mitted to the League. This organization has 

 a weekly organ, called Protestantische Zeit- 

 filatter. 



In Great Britain and Ireland there are 382 

 Unitarian places of worship, and 337 ministers, 

 of whom 274 are settled, and 63 not settled. 

 The institutions for ministerial education are 5 

 in number. The societies publish 7 periodicals. 

 The British and Foreign Unitarian Association 

 has a capital of 5,539. The local societies 

 are 12 in number. There are Sunday-schools 

 with 3,467 teachers, and 21,917 scholars. 



The Unitarian churches in Transylvania 

 celebrated in August, 1868, their three hun- 

 dredth anniversary, which was an occasion of 

 great interest. They number 106 congrega- 

 tions, with 50,000 worshippers. They have 



