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UNITARIANS. 



Unitarian body as it may see fit to invite. Its 

 acts are advisory. It was formed in 1865, and 

 meets every two rears. The last meeting was 

 held in Boston, in October, 187-J. 



The objects of the American Unitarian As- 

 sociation are: 1. To collect and diffuse in- 

 formation respecting the state of Unitarian 

 Christianity in the country; 2. To produce 

 union, sympathy, and cooperation among Lib- 

 eral Christians; 8. To publish and distribute 

 books and tracts, inculcating Unitarian views 

 in such form, and at such price, as shall make 

 them generally accessible; 4. To adopt what- 

 ever other measures may seem expedient; 

 such as contributions in behalf of clergymen 

 with insufficient salaries, or in aid of building 

 churches. The anniversary of this Association 

 was held May 27, 1873, in Boston. Its receipts 

 for the year had been impaired by the occur- 

 rence of the great fire of November 9 and 10, 

 1 <;_'. in Boston, at the time which had been ap- 

 pointed for general collodions in the churches. 

 The Association had been able to control about 

 $-12,0 luring the year, against $110,000 dur- 

 ing the previous year. Appropriations had 

 been made to several churches, mis- 

 schools, and other enterprises, in the New 

 England, Middle, and Western States; five 

 hundred dollars in gold had been allotted for 

 mi"ionary services in Paris, France, conducted 

 by the Rev. A. Ooqnerel, fila; five hundred 

 dollars had been sent to the consistory of Hun- 

 garian churches for translating ami publishing 

 the- works of Dr. Channing into the Hungari- 

 an language; and the Rev. Mr. Dall and Mi" 

 Chamberlain had been sustained at the mis- 

 sion in India. An effort had been determined 

 upon by the National Conference of 1872 to 

 raise $30,000 for building a church in \Vash- 

 i City, and the Unitarian Association had 

 given its cooperation to the movement. This 

 was defeated for the present, on account of 

 the crippling of the resources of the churches 

 by the Boston fire. Only a few gifts had been 

 received. But the enterprise had not been 

 and would not be withdrawn. 



The following are the local conferences and 

 association-..!' Unitarians: Annual Conference 

 of Western Unitarian Churches; New Hamp- 

 shire Unitarian A -si leiat ion (organized 1803); 

 Maine Conference of Unitarian Churches (or- 

 ganized 1804); Wisconsin Conference of Uni- 

 - (organized 1860); the Confer- 

 erence of Unitarian and other Christian 

 Churches in the Middle and Southern States 

 nizcd at Wilmington. \1A., 1866); Nor- 

 folk Conference of Unitarian and other Chris- 

 OhurobM (Organized at Dedhain, Mass., 

 1860); New York and Hudson Kiv-r ' 

 Conference (organized at New York, in 1860); 

 Essex Con Liberal Christian < 'hurr'ies 



(organized at Salem. Mass., 1865); Lake Krie 

 Conference of Unitarian and other Christian 

 Churches (organized at Meadville. Pa., 1 

 W.e -ional i I'ni- 



tarian ) and other Christian Societies (organ- 



ized, 1860); Southern Middlesex Conference 

 of Congregational (Unitarian) and other Chris- 

 tian Societies (organized at Cambriilgeport, 

 Mass.. -:itt'olk Conference of Unitarian 



and other n Churches (organized at 



Boston, 1860); North Middlesex Con_- 

 tional Conference of Unitarian itml other Chris- 

 tian Churches (organized at Littleton, Mass., 

 I860); Connecticut Valley Conference m 

 gregational I'nitarian and other Christian 

 Churches (organized at Greenfield, -V 

 1867); Plymouth and Buy Conlerenee (organ- 

 ized at Hinghain. Ma.ss.. 18157); Ohio V alley 

 Conference of Unitarian and other Christian 

 Churches (organized at LooiaviUt, Ky., IM;TI; 

 Channing Conference (organized at Providence, 

 R. I., 1867); Chicago Conference of I'nitarian 

 Churches (organized at Chicago, 1868); \Ve.-t- 

 ern Illinois and Iowa Cont'erence of Unitarian 

 and other Christian Churches (oi^anized at 

 Shetticld, 111., l!i'.: Cape Cod Conferee 

 Unitarian and other Liberal Christian Churches 

 (organized at Barnstable, Mass., 187ui; Con- 

 ference of Liberal Christians of the Missouri 

 Valley (organized at Kansas City, Mo., 1 



The I'nititrinn Xuiiiliiii-School & 

 instituted in 1827, and reorganized in 1854. 

 According to its last report it circulated 14,- 

 258 copies of the periodical, The Day .S//r/y ; 

 7,750 of the. liinilitj-Sehool Letsont; and 1.7" 

 of the Teacher 1 * Guide. The Lettont and Uuule* 

 were going to one hundred and thirty-three 

 schools. The Unitarian 9u*day-8ekM>l Socie- 

 ty <if the Wett was organized at Chicago, 111.. 

 in 1873. The Year-Book names also four local 

 Sunday-school associations in Massachusetts. 

 The Sfinuttrial Conference was organized in 

 1819, and holds an annual meeting for addrc-s 

 and discussion in Boston on the last Wednes- 

 day in May. Thirteen local ministerial con- 

 ventions are named in the Year-Moot. 



Divinity School of Harvard Univer-ity, 

 Cambridge. Mass.. reported twenty-two stu- 

 dents, and the Meadville Theological school, 

 Meadvillo, Pa., eighteen students. Fourteen 

 "religions and charitable societies,'' and four 

 organizations not denominational, in which 

 Unitarians participate, arc catalogued in the 

 Year- JJ< >ot. 



The meeting of the liritith and For. 

 r/iitiirian Atociation was hold in London in 

 June. The work of the society was repre- 

 sented by the secretary to have greatly in- 

 creased during the year. A detailed account 

 was given of its operations in India. Hungary, 

 <i Tiuany, Italy, Franco, and the United S; 

 Nineteen ministers were actively engaged in 

 home missionary-work. Fresh efforts had been 

 mule in some of the principal meeting-places; 

 and several new anil handsome chapels had 

 boon opened in large Manufacturing towns in 

 the north of England. The Mini of l.on:i 

 had been voted for home mission-work and 

 chapel-building. In Scotland attention -< em. d 

 to have been called to the Unitarian move- 

 ment through the action of the Dundee I'res- 



