UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST. 



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bytery of the Free Church in the case of the 

 Rev. Mr. Knight, who was tried for having 

 preached in a Unitarian pulpit. 



The sale of Unitarian literature had so ex- 

 tended as to amount to ahout 1,000 per an- 

 num. The Executive Committee had taken 

 steps to raise 20,000 for a central Unitarian 

 building in London, of which 12,000 had been 

 already raised. A difference of opinion had 

 arisen in regard to the trust-deed, and the sub- 

 ject was referred to the meeting. It was de- 

 cided to suspend the building scheme. 



The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of the 

 American Unitarian Association, and the Rev. 

 John Fretwell, of the British and Foreign Uni- 

 tarian Association, by invitation met on the 

 15th of June at Buda-Pesth a deputation of 

 the Unitarian Contistory of Hungary (or 

 Trantyhania), to discuss the manner in which 

 the British and American associations conld 

 best help the Hungarian Unitarians. There 

 were present at tins meeting, as representatives 

 of the Transylvania Consistory, Profs. John 

 Kovacs and Dominic Simen of Koloszvar; 

 Mr. John Hajos, representative of Koloszvar in 

 the Hungarian Parliament ; Baron Blasius 

 Orban, parliamentary representative for Maros 

 Vasarhely ; Aron Bugogany, of the Ministry 

 of Public Instruction; Michael UrmOsy, of the 

 Foreign Office ; Mr. Paul Liptay, Messrs. Ju- 

 lius Szinovies, Morella, and others, of Pesth. 



Prof. Kovacs gave a brief sketch of the his- 

 tory and present condition of Unitarianism in 

 Transylvania, and closed with a statement of 

 the objects in which the consistory were most 

 interested, and for which they desired help. 

 They were, tirst, the translation of the works 

 of Charming and other Unitarian authors, and 

 provision for distributing them among the 

 clergymen and others who were willing to 

 ri-v'1 them, but were not able to buy them; 

 second, the appointment of four additional 

 superiors (making twelve in all), in the faculty 

 of the Unitarian college at Clausenbnrg, where 

 the Government has just founded a university. 

 Third, the building of a Unitarian church at 

 Bml.'i-FYsth. Mr. Hale, in making a report 

 of this meeting to the Secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Unitarian Association, expressed the opin- 

 ion that the wisdom of the appropriations 

 made to Hungary by the association had been 

 justified amply by immediate results. By the 

 of the year 1873, four volumes of Dr. 

 Channing's works had been translated and 

 published in the Hiinfr.-iri.in language. 



The Unitarians in Hungary and Trnnsyl- 

 vnnin number 106 congregations, with 50,000 

 worshipers. Their consistory is held at Clau- 

 renborg, where they have a college and the- 

 ological seminary. The congregations are 

 under the care of a bishop, J. Kriga, who re- 

 f f'l.'insenhnrg. 



TATTED MRETflREN IN CHRIST. In 

 the following table is given a summary of the 

 statistics of the United Brethren Church for 

 the year 1878: 



The contributions in 1873 were: for minis- 

 terial aid, $2,959.99; for missions, $37,833.78 ; 

 for the bishops, $5,600.58 ; for church erection, 

 $612.35; Sunday-school collections, $41,456.57; 

 for the general Sunday-school fund, $2,085.26; 

 for church buildings and expenses, $279,775.95 ; 

 educational fund, $14,025.51 ; for salaries of 

 ministers, $836,729.33: total contributions, 

 $720,751.07. Number of meeting-houses, 1,681 ; 

 of parsonages, 321 ; number of Sunday-schools, 

 2,789; of children in the same, 157,197; esti- 

 mated value of church property, $2,054,000. 



The denomination has a theological school, 

 called the Biblical Seminary; five colleges, 

 viz.: Otterbein University, Westerville, O. ; 

 Hartsville University, Hnrtsville, Ind. ; "West- 

 field College, Westfield, 111. ; Lebanon Valley 

 College, Annville, Pa. ; Lane University, Le- 

 compton, Kansas; and Western College, Wes- 

 tern, Iowa. They have also two seminaries, 

 Roanoke Classical Seminary, Koanoke, Ind., 

 and Philomath College, Philomath, Oregon. 



The sixteenth quadrennial session of the 

 General Conference of the United Brethren in 

 Christ was held at Dayton, Ohio, beginning 

 May 15, 1873. The bishops presided, each 



Statistics of 1872. 



