UXIVERSALISTS. 



UPFOLD, GEORGE. 



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The following table exhibits the statistics of 

 libraries in the United States, giving the classes 

 and kinds in each class : 



UXIVERSALISTS. The following are the 

 statistics of the Universalist Church of the 

 United States and British Provinces, by States, 

 Territories, and Provinces : 



STATES, ETC, 



Ministers. I Churches. ! Members 



Three parishes are reported in Dakota; 

 four churches in Mississippi ; one parish in 

 Texas ; one Sunday-school and one church in 

 Virginia, but no other statistics are given 

 from those States. 



The total number of associations in the 

 United States and British Provinces is 76 ; of 

 parishes, 969 ; of Universalist families, 43,771 ; 

 of Sunday-schools, 602; of members of Sun- 

 day-schools, 55,313 ; of meeting-houses, 762 ; 

 value of church property, $7,551,170. 



The following educational institutions are 

 controlled by Universalists : Tufts College and 

 Divinity School, College Hill, Mass. ; Lombard 

 University, Galesburg, 111. ; St. Lawrence Uni- 

 versity and Theological School, Canton, X. Y. ; 

 Smithson College, Logansport, Ind. ; Buchtel 

 College, Akron, Ohio; Liberal Institute, Clin- 

 ton, K Y. ; Westbrook Seminary, Deerin^', 

 Me. ; Green Mountain Perkins Academy, South 

 Woodstock, Vt. ; Goddard Seminary, Bam-, 

 Vt. ; Liberal Institute, Jefferson, Wis. ; Dean 

 Academy, Franklin, Mass. ; Mitchell Seminary, 

 Mitchellville, Iowa. These institutions have 

 in all 87 professors and teachers, and 1,093 

 students. Their total assets are valued, in 

 round numbers, at $2,290,000. 



The Universalist General Convention of the 

 United States met at Cincinnati, Ohio, Sep- 

 tember 17th. Moses Humphrey, of New Hamp- 

 shire, was elected president. The attention of 

 the convention was chiefly given to the finan- 

 cial interests of the denomination, and the best 

 means of promoting them, particularly with 

 reference to the Murray Centenary Fund, the 

 special fund of $40,000, and the missionary 

 boxes. The treasurer of the Murray Centen- 

 ary Fund reported its amount, at the time of 

 the meeting of the convention, to be $118,- 

 264.43. 



During the year seventeen theological schol- 

 arships had been granted. The total amount 

 of money so far expended on theological schol- 

 arships, was $78,060. Thirty-eight scholar- 

 ships were in force, requiring an annual ap- 

 propriation of $6,840. 



The convention decided in favor of the one- 

 lesson system in Sunday-schools, and ap- 

 proved the association of the sexes in the de- 

 nominational schools and colleges. 



An anniversary of the Woman's Centenary 

 Association was held in connection with the 

 meeting of the convention. This association 

 was organized during the centennial year 1876 

 to help in raising the Murray Centennial Fund. 

 It had contributed to that object the sum of 

 $36,000, and has now continued to carry out 

 other denominational objects to which the 

 efforts of women might be worthily devoted. 

 Among them are the dissemination of denomi- 

 national literature, the assistance of students 

 for the ministry, the planting of Sunday- 

 schools, the aid of superannuated preachers, 

 and the employment of female home mission- 

 aries. 



UPFOLD, Rt. Rev. GEOEGE, M. D., D. D., 

 LL. D., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the 

 Diocese of Indiana, born at Shemley Green, 

 near Guilford, Surrey, England, May 7, 1796 ; 

 died at Indianapolis, Ind., August 26, 1872. 

 He emigrated with his family to the United 

 States in 1802, and made his home in Albany, 

 K Y. He was fitted for college at Lansing- 

 burg Academy, entered Union College at the 

 age of fourteen, and graduated thence in July, 

 1814. He had already commenced the study 

 of medicine, and continued it in Albany and in 



