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UNIVERSALISTS. 



URUGUAY. 



ordinate legions. The principles and workings 

 of this body are almost identical with those of 

 the parent order. The latest official returns 

 give the total membership in the United States 

 and Canada at 187,000. 



BNIVERSALISTS. The following is a summary 

 of the statistics of the Universalist Church as 

 given in the " Universalist Register " for 1888 : 

 Number of parishes, 988; of families, 39,338; 

 of churches, 730; of church members, 37,807;. 

 of Sunday-schools, 657, having 54,636 mem- 

 bers; of church edifices, 796; value of church 

 property, $7,591,550. The returns show an 

 apparent gain over the previous year of 43 par- 

 ishes, 909 families, 35 churches, 2,257 church- 

 members, 23 Sunday-schools, 1,083 members 

 of Sunday-schools, 7 church edifices, and $97,- 

 623 in valuation of church property. The re- 

 turns include several places from which no re- 

 ports had been previously received for many 

 years. The educational institutions of the 

 Church Tufc's College, with its Divinity 

 School, Medford, Mass. : St. Lawrence Univer- 

 sity, with it< Theological School, Canton, N. Y.; 

 Lombard University, with its theological de- 

 partment, Galesburg, 111. ; Buchtel College, 

 Akron, Ohio; Clinton Liberal Institute, Port 

 Plain, N. Y. ; Westbrook Seminary, Deering, 

 Me. ; Dean Academy, Franklin, Mass. ; God- 

 dard Seminary, Barre, Vt. ; and Green Mount- 

 ain Perkins Academy, South Woodstock, Vt. ; 

 returned 110 professors and teachers, 1,284 

 students, and property, the value of which was 

 estimated at $2,716,500. 



The Universalist Historical Society has a 

 library of 2,800 volumes, about 1.000 pam- 

 phlets, and many important manuscripts and 

 papers. 



The Brevoort Mission, New York, was found- 

 ed as a school in 1858, and as a society in 1869. 

 It has a fund which was founded by the mis- 

 sion school, and has been increased from va- 

 rious sources, and has been invested in the 

 purchase of Brevoort Hall, from the rentals of 

 which all expenses are fully met. 



The General Convention of Universalists in 

 the United States met in New York city Oc- 

 tober 19. The Rev. Dr. E. C. Sweetser pre- 

 sided. The Board of Trustees returned the 

 total value of the church property, including 

 churches, colleges, homes, and convention en- 

 dowments at $11,128,410; and reported the 

 amount of funds under the control of the con- 

 vention to be $177,726, with a corresponding 

 amount of securities. The receipts for the year 

 had been $23,736, and the expenditures $17,985 ; 

 besides which $47,598 had been applied to mis- 

 sionary and other church work, and an expen- 

 diture had been made for ministerial relief. The 

 aggregate increase of the Convention funds for 

 the year had been $(5,803. The Committee on 

 Foreign Missions reported in favor of organ- 

 izing a mission in Japnn. A resolution was 

 adopted, which, to be valid, has to be approved 

 by another meeting of the Convention, for 

 holding the sessions of the Convention bien- 



nially instead of annually. The committee ap- 

 pointed by a previous General Convention to 

 prepare a new formula for the profession of 

 faith reported a series of articles which, after 

 discussion and modifications, were accepted to 

 be referred to the next General Convention. 

 They are as follow : 



1. I believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and 

 New Testaments contain a revelation from God to 

 mankind. 



2. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, 

 Maker of heaven and earth : in Jesus Christ Ins 

 Son, who is the revealer of God and the Saviour of 

 the world from sin, and in his Holy Spirit the Com- 

 forter, through which all disciples of Christ are unit- 

 ed in one spiritual body. 



3. I believe in the forgiveness of sins ; in the cer- 

 tainty of retribution ; in the immortality of the human 

 soul, and in the final holiness and happiness of all 

 mankind. 



4. I believe that the opportunities, obligations, and 

 rewards of religion are m their nature eternal, and 

 that 1 ought to strive earnestly for salvation by re- 

 penting of my sins and diligently using the means of 

 grace which God has provided for me. 



The following resolutions were approved as 

 expressing the sense of the Convention on the 

 subjects to which they severally refer: 



1. That the position of the Convention in favor of 

 total abstinence be reasserted. 



2. That the Convention be recorded as opposed to 

 any legislation looking to a relaxation of the Sunday 

 liquor laws. 



3. That the board of trustees, in consultation with 

 the faculties of the theological schools, be directed to 

 consider the feasibility of educating young men at 

 their homes by means of correspondence. 



4. That the convention is opposed to making the 

 public schools sectarian. 



The report of the committee appointed to 

 consider the reports of the Board of Trustees 

 recommended the establishment of young 

 people's missionary societies; that all means 

 be taken to promote an increase of the minis- 

 try ; that Sunday-school children should be en- 

 couraged to become members of the Church ; 

 and that the title to church property should be 

 vested in the State Conventions, in order that 

 the property may be secured to the Universal- 

 ist denomination. 



It was represented at the meeting of the 

 Woman's Centenary Association that sines its 

 institution that society had raised $-200,000, 

 and had expended all of it except $10,000, 

 which was held as a permanent fund in the 

 promotion of the objects of the Association, 

 which are chiefly the aid of poor parishes, in- 

 firm ministers, and struggling student?. The 

 year's receipts of the Association had heen 

 $4,149, and its disbursements $1,586. Its per- 

 manent fund amounted to $7,467. 



URUGUAY, a republic in South America. 

 Area, 69,835 square miles. In 1885 the popu- 

 lation was 582,858, showing an increase of 

 62,322 since 1883. 



Government. The President is Gen. Maximo 

 Tajes. The Cabinet is composed of the follow- 

 ing ministers : Prime Minister and Interior, 

 Dr. Herrera y Obes ; Foreign Affairs, Sefior 

 J. G. Lagos ; Finance, Dr. A. M. Marquez ; 



