760 



UNIVERSALISTS. 



URUGUAY. 



compound interest from September 30, 1870. 

 The treasurer also reported that by the be- 

 quest of the late John G. Gunn, of Nyack. N. 

 V.. the sum of $8,OUO hod been placed in the 

 charge of the Board of Tru-tees. the income 

 from which is to be applied to the relief of 

 clergymen or their families requiring aid. The 

 principal of the fund was invested ia full. The 

 aggregate receipts of the treasurer for the year 

 had been $850 more than the receipts for the 

 previous year. The indebtedness of the con- 

 vention was now $22,500, having been dimin- 

 ished $0,000 during the year. 



The income from the missionary boxes since 

 tli.- 4th of March had been $2,469.40. This 

 was not as large a return as the trustees had 

 hoped for, but they declared that their faith 

 in the boxes was unimpaired. The convention 

 determined, in order to promote the efficiency 

 of the boxes by making their aim as definite 

 as possible, that the receipts obtained through 

 tin-in should be applied to the works in aid of 

 theological scholarship, and that if the amount 

 collected should exceed the necessary disburse- 

 ments for those purposes, the surplus should 

 be applied to the Murray Centenary Fund. A 

 committee of five persons, three of whom were 

 women, was appointed to take charge of the 

 boxes. 



One hundred and sixty-five parishes had 

 taken the annual collection. Adding individual 

 contributions, the amount raised by this moans, 

 was $3,807.44. The trustees of the conven- 

 tion, in referring to this subject in their re- 

 port, suggested that the minds of the people 

 were perplexed by the pressing upon their at- 

 ti -ntion of too many objects of benevolence at 

 once. In this fact, they saw another argu- 

 ment for the completion of the Murray and 

 other special funds. 



Ten scholarships had been granted since the 

 last session of the convention, and twelve 

 students had been graduated. Thirty-nine 

 scholarships had been in force during the year, 

 at a cost to the convention of $6,000. 



The statistical returns of the denomination 

 in the hands of the officers of the convention 

 were pronounced so meagre that any state- 

 ment which could be made on the subject 

 would be of little value. It appeared that 

 there were more parishes than ministers, and 

 that for this reason the progress of the denomi- 

 nation was greatly retarded. A code of 

 regulations was adopted for the licensing of 

 lay preachers. Statistical returns of Sunday- 

 schools were presented. Sunday-school insti- 

 tute*, described as "large and enthusiastic. " 

 had been held at Providence, R. I., Worcester, 

 Mass., Watcrville, Me., and at several places in 

 the West The committee appointed at the 

 previous session of the General Convention to 

 prepare a system of lessons for Sunday-schools, 

 recommended the adoption of the '"' Interna- 

 tional Series." 



Biii-liU'l College. Akron, Ohio, won formally 

 dedicated on the day succeeding the close of 



the session of the General Convention of : 

 The theological schools were repr. 

 have made an honorable record, notwithstand- 

 ing they wore young and scantily endowed. 



The following resolutions were adopted, per- 

 tinent to the meeting of the Evangelical Al- 

 lianre wliieh was to be held in New York in 

 October : 



Whtretu, The Evangelical Alliance U about to 

 hold sessions in New York ; and 



]\'/ierta*, So far as we can understand the terms of 

 the call and the object* of thu meeting, we should 

 l>e rapresantsd in it; therefore 



JtaolrtJ, That a committee of three, of whom the 

 president of thix convention slmll be one, be ap- 

 pointed to represent the Universalist Church in said 

 meeting. 



The Rev. Drs. Miner, of Boston, Chnpiii, of 

 New York, and Ryder, of Chicago, were ap- 

 pointed as this commit t< -e. 



In commenting on this action, the Chriitian 

 Ltntler, of which Kev. l>r. Chapin was editor, 

 said that it was taken, "not with any view to 

 force on the Alliance the consideration of an 

 unwelcome question, nor, on the other hand, 

 with any desire to procure notoriety : but 

 solely because it was the profound conviction 

 of the delegates present, that there is no es- 

 sential to a true evangelical faith, or charac- 

 ter, in which the Universalist body is defi- 

 cient; and that, in such a state of facts, self- 

 respect, equally with regard for the honor and 

 reputation of the Protestant brunch of the 

 Christian Church of the time, demands that 

 we claim recognition." 



A resolution was adopted declaring (lie traf- 

 fic in intoxicating liqnors as a beverage to be 

 contrary to Christian morality, injurious to 

 the Church of Christ, and hurtful to the best 

 interests of humanity ; and that it should, 

 therefore, be prohibited by statute, not only 

 by the several States of the Union, but also 

 by tin- General Government in all the domains 

 over which its control extends. 



The annual meeting' of the Women's Cen- 

 tenary Association was held at Washington, 

 D. 0., September 17th. The treasurer's report 

 showed that nearly $19,000 had been r 

 by the Association during the past year, tho 

 record of its existence. The Association re- 

 solved to prosecute its purposes with nn- 

 diminished vigor, with full faith in its power 

 to bo a mighty instrumentality in promoting 

 the host interests of the Universalist Church. 



URUGUAY (Krrfi.iu-A DE LA BANDA 

 ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY), or BAND A ORIKN- 

 TAI, an independent state of South America, 

 lyitiL' between latitude 80 and 80 50' south, 

 and lonL'itude 52 40' and 58 west. 



The area of the republic i- estimated .-it 84,- 

 170 square miles by Knirineer .lose M. Reyes, 

 but most other authorities set it down at 69,- 

 832 square miles. A si : ,ti-rirnl publication in 

 Montevideo computes the population at 350,- 

 000, of whom 127,70+ are in the department 

 of Montevideo. Tho mortality in that depart- 

 ment, in 1870, was 8,059; in 1871, 4,380; in 



