UNITARIANS. 



UNITED BRETHREN. 



700 



doavorctl to change th<- <>r,!.-r of soooettion, 



has at K-ii-th ubaudoiu-d this d,--i-ii, and 



through tin- good others of the Shmk-ul- 



il.'iiry Klliot, tho Knglwh era- 



<| ( .r, lias IHTII reconciled to his m-|>hi-\v, 



1'rinro Mounid KtlVndi, the legal ht/ir t tins 



tin <nie. The Sultan solemnly swore on tin- 



Koran to respect the legal righto of his neph- 

 ew ; uml Prince Mounul al-<, promised tliut 

 1'riiu -e "i u.ssuf-lzzeddin, cldet son of the Sul- 

 tan, should retain his rank of generalissimo, 



aii'l that the other KOII.S of the Sultan ahould 

 keep th. ir a||pa[iap-s, the high ollicca of state 

 they hold, and their own palaces. 



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UNITARIANS. I. UNITARIANS IN TOE 

 I ' M i KD STATES. The forty-ninth annual meet- 

 ting of the American Unitarian Auociation 

 was held in Boston, May 26th. The Treasurer 

 reported the amount of contributions received 

 during the past year to have been $37,698.02. 

 The subject of the principle which ought to be 

 observed in preparing the list of Unitarian min- 

 isters to be published in the Year Book of the 

 Unitarian Congregational Churchet, formed 

 one of the most prominent topics of discussion 

 before the Association. The following resolu- 

 tion was adopted on the subject : 



Inasmuch as the term Unitarian, as used in the 

 title of this Association, and in its publications, has 

 always been held to carry a distinctively Christian 

 meaning our Unitarian ministers being held and 

 regarded by us as public teachers of the Christian re- 

 ligion and as the action of the Assistant Secretary, 

 sustained by the Executive Committee, in omitting 

 from the catalogue the name of a minister who says 

 he is no longer a Christian, has been in harmony with 

 the common usage of the term among us : therefore 



Resolved, That the said action be now and hereby 

 is approved and ratified. 



The National Conference of Unitarian and 

 other Christian Churches in the United States 

 met, for its sixth biennial session, at Saratoga, 

 N. Y., September 15th. The Hon. E. Rock- 

 wood Hoar, of Massachusetts, presided. The 

 Council of Ten presented a report of their 

 proceedings since the previous National Con- 

 ference, and of the condition of the several in- 

 terests of which they had the care. A larger 

 number of societies of the Unitarian body liad 

 been invited to the Conference than ever be- 

 fore. The discussion of general religious and 

 social questions occupied a prominent place in 

 the proceedings of the Conference. Papers 

 were read in this department as follows : On 

 " The Causes and Cure of Intemperance," by 

 the Rev. J. H. Hey wood, of Louisville, Ky. ; on 

 ' The Morality of Prohibitory Liquor Laws," 

 by William B. Weeden, of Providence, R. I. ; 

 on " The Merits and Results of the Voluntary 

 System in Church Organization and Work," 

 by the Rev. Charles G. Ames, of Germantown, 

 Pa.; on "The Relations between Religious 

 and Modern Scientific Thought," by the Rev. 

 S. R. Calthrop, of Syracuse, N. Y. ; on " The 

 Causes of Crime," by the Rev. A. Woodbury, 

 of Providence, R. I. ; and on the " Punish- 

 ment of Criminals," by the Rev. J. F. Moors, 

 of Greenfield, Mass. 



II. GERMAN ASSOCIATIONS OF LIBERAL CHRIS- 

 TIANS IN THE UNITED STATES. 1. The Protes- 

 tant Union of Liberal Christian Churches in 



North America was established at Cincinnati 

 in 1863. It includes congregations in Ohio, 

 Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Texas, New Jer- 

 sey, and Indiana. The Conference meete once 

 a year. It is stated that the Union has suf- 

 fered considerably from internal dissensions 

 and religious indifference. It has now but 

 twelve churches connected with it. 



2. The Union of Independent Evangelical 

 Protestant German Churches in the West was 

 organized in 1869, mostly by ministers from 

 the Protestant Union mentioned above. It re- 

 sembles the Protestant Union in its tendencies, 

 and maintains a friendly intercourse with it, 

 but is regarded as being more radical in its 

 views. It has fourteen churches, the greater 

 number of which are in Illinois and Minnesota. 



UNITED BRETHREN. The following are 

 the statistics of the Church of the United 

 Brethren in Christ, as given in the United" 

 Brethren Almanac for 1875 : 



