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UNITARIANS. The "Unitarian Church Di- 

 rectory and Missionary Hand-Book" for 1884- 

 '85 gives a list of 344 Unitarian churches 

 in the United States and Canada, which are 

 distributed as follows : In Canada, 3 ; Cali- 

 fornia, 6 ; Colorado, 3 ; Connecticut, 2 ; Dako- 

 ta, 1 ; Delaware, 1 ; District of Columbia, 1 ; 

 Georgia, 1; Illinois, 16; Indiana, 4; Iowa, 8; 

 Kansas, 3; Maine, 19; Maryland, 1; Massa- 

 chusetts, 178; Michigan, 14; Minnesota, 3; 

 Missouri, 5 ; Nebraska, 4 ; New Hampshire, 

 23; New Jersey, 1; New York, 17; Ohio, 3; 

 Oregon, 4; Pennsylvania, 6 ; Rhode Island, 4; 

 South Carolina, 1 ; Vermont, 5 ; Wisconsin, 7. 

 The "Directory" gives the names of 267 min- 

 isters who are in charge of churches, and of 

 112 ministers who are not in charge of churches. 



The organizations for religious and benevo- 

 lent work consist of the American Unitarian 

 Association ; the National Conference of Uni- 

 tarian and other Christian Churches ; the 

 Western and the Southern Unitarian Confer- 

 ences ; the Women's Auxiliary Conference ; 

 the Women's Western Unitarian Conference ; 

 the Unitarian and the Western Unitarian Sun- 

 day-School Societies ; twenty-five State and 

 local conferences and associations ; twelve 

 ministerial associations, unions, and educational 

 societies; three general organizations in behalt 

 of Sunday-schools; and numerous local or- 

 ganizations. The theological schools are the 

 Divinity School of Harvard University, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., with a faculty of eight members, 

 and the Meadville Theological School, Mead- 

 ville, Pa., with ten instructors. 



Unitarians in Great Britain. The Unitarians 

 have in England 283 places of worship; in 

 Scotland, 9 ; in Wales, 32 ; in Ireland, 41 ; and 

 in the Isle of Man, 1. The number of minis- 

 ters on active duty in Great Britain and Ire- 

 land is 281 ; while 91 other ministers are en- 

 gaged in literary or other pursuits, or have 

 retired from work. The principal Unitarian 

 educational institution in England is Manches- 

 ter New College in London, of which the Rev. 

 James Martineau, LL. D., is principal. The 

 denomination has also a college for the educa- 

 tion of " missionaries " in Manchester. 



Unitarians in Hungary. The Unitarian or- 

 ganization in Hungary (Transylvania) is epis- 

 copal in form, with one bishop whose cathedral 

 is at Klausenburg (Koloszvar), and includes 

 108 parishes, with about 60,000 members. The 

 college at Klausenburg has twelve professors 

 and about 300 students; gymnasia are sus- 

 tained at Thorda and St. Keresztur ; and the 

 parish day-schools return more than 5,000 stu- 

 dents. The Hungarian Church is on fraternal 

 relations with the American Unitarian Asso- 

 ciation, and a regular correspondence is kept 

 up between the two bodies. 



National Conference of Unitarian Churches. The 



eleventh meeting of the National Conference 

 of Unitarian and other Christian churches was 

 held at Saratoga, N. Y., beginning September 

 22. The Hon. Dorman B. Eaton presided. 

 Two hundred and twelve churches and 33 con- 

 ferences, associations, etc., were represented 

 by 526 delegates. The Council of the Confer- 

 ence reported that in the two years since the 

 last meeting of the body, the churches united 

 in it had contributed $428,000 to the various 

 objects then proposed by it. In the twenty 

 years since the Conference was formed, the 

 Unitarian Church had endowed Antioch College 

 with $110,000, Meadville Theological School 

 with $75,000, and the Cambridge Divinity 

 School with $130,000 ; while the American Uni- 

 tarian Association, besides its regular and enlarg- 

 ing work of missions, had collected the means 

 and made the plans of a central home of its mis- 

 sionary efforts. 



The report of the American Unitarian Asso- 

 ciation stated that in the past two years $199,- 

 000 had been given through it to special ob- 

 jects, viz. : $152,000 to erect a denominational 

 building, and $47,000 more to relieve the 

 church in New Orleans from debt ; to complete 

 the additional endowment for the seminary at 

 Meadville, Pa. ; to establish a professorship in 

 the Unitarian College in Hungary ; and to sup- 

 port the Rev. A. D. Mayo in his work for 

 Southern education. Besides these sums, $145,- 

 000 had been bequeathed to increase the per- 

 manent missionary fund, and the regular con- 

 tributions had continued to increase, amount- 

 ing now to $79,000. The Association had kept 

 alive twenty feeble parishes, helped twenty- 

 four other churches in growing towns, sup- 

 ported religious services in eight educational 

 centers, helped sustain nine State missionaries, 

 maintained the mission in India, and partici- 

 pated in the support of a church in Buda-Pesth, 

 Hungary, and had sent out several thousand 

 volumes and more than 200,000 tracts. Re- 

 ports were received from the Western Confer- 

 ence, which, besides co-operating with the West- 

 ern State Conferences in the work of missions 

 and church extension, has established a large 

 book-store and Unitarian headquarters in Chi- 

 cago ; and from the Southern Conference, the 

 headquarters of which are at Atlanta, Ga. 



The Conference adopted resolutions recom- 

 mending the maintenance of State Conferences 

 where that is practicable without interfering 

 with existing local conferences, and the ap- 

 pointment of a State missionary for each ; rec- 

 ommending the setting apart of $25,000 as the 

 nucleus of the church-building loan fund to 

 be established by the American Unitarian As- 

 sociation, and the addition of $20,000 more to 

 be raised by immediate subscriptions ; and ap- 

 proving the formation of Unitarian clubs, for 

 the purpose of uniting the lay members of the 



