UNITARIANS. 



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UNITARIANS. The fifty-second annual 

 meeting of the American Unitarian Associa- 

 tion was held in Boston, Mass., May 29th. Mr. 

 Benry P. Kidder was chosen president. The 

 treasurer reported that his total receipts for 

 the year had been $111,659.10, and his expen- 

 ditures $99,228.11. The funds held on the ac- 

 count of the association were : the General 

 Fund, amounting to $75,048.75 ; the Hayward 

 Fund, amounting to $25,750.00; the Perkins 

 Fund, amounting to $10,209.50 ; the Kendall 

 Fund, amounting to $2,164.75 ; the King Fund, 

 amounting to $10,000.00 ; and the Lienow Trust 

 Fund, amounting to $4,327.00 for which sat- 

 isfactory securities were exhibited. The asso- 

 ciation also possessed uninvested balances on 

 account of the General Fund of $7,750.06, and 

 of the Homer Fund of $220.88. The total bal- 

 ance in the hands of the treasurer, including 

 the last-mentioned sums, was $12,430.09. The 

 Executive Committee reported that the year's 

 contributions from the churches, up to the time 

 of the anniversary, had amounted to more 

 than $26,000; more than $14,000 had also 

 been collected for the church at Washington, 

 making in all $40,000, a larger sum than had 

 been contributed in any one of the five pre- 

 ceding years. The church at Washington had 

 been begun, the contract for the execution of 

 the work having been signed by the com- 

 mittee. 



The anniversary of the British Unitarian As- 

 sociation was held in London. Mr. James Lup- 

 ten was chosen president. The treasurer re- 

 ported that the general expenditure had been 

 about 7,000 on account of the association, 

 and 4,617 of the Jubilee Fund. The report 

 of the secretary stated that of the 20 provin- 

 cial societies, nine were connected with the as- 

 sociation, five having joined during the year. 

 In Scotland, notwithstanding the strong efforts 

 which had been made, the difficulty of estab- 

 lishing new churches waa found for the pre- 

 ent to be almost insuperable. In Ireland, a 

 promising field of usefulness had appeared in 

 Londonderry. Two new chapels had been 

 built in South Wales, and a grant had been 

 made to aid in the erection of a new chapel, in 

 place of one from which the congregation had 

 been expelled. Progress was reported in a 

 number of towns in England, and in various 

 quarters of London. The sales of books had 

 amounted to 1,004. Grants had been made 

 to the extent of 129 for books, and 78 for 

 tracts. 



UNITED BRETHREN. The following is a 

 summary of the statistics of the United Breth- 

 ren Church for 1877, as they are given in the 

 United Brethren Almanac for 1878, showing 

 the number of organized churches, of minis- 

 ters, and of members of each conference : 



Totals '4,067 2,059 ; 148,163 



The table shows an increase of 107 ministers 

 and 4,882 members, and a decrease of 11 

 churches, from 1876. The footings of other 

 Items of the statistical tables are : Whole num- 

 ber of meeting-houses, 2,003 ; of parsonages, 

 301; of Sunday-schools, 2,897; of children, 

 officers, and teachers, in the same, 169,530; 

 amount of contributions for salaries of minis- 

 ters, $335,072.88; for the bishops, $5,681.93; 

 for ministerial aid, $2,273.02; for missions, 

 $33,648.60 ; for church building and expenses, 

 $207,907.29; for educational funds, $13,713.90 ; 

 for the Biblical Seminary, $1,772.86 ; for church 

 erection and the general Sunday-school fund, 

 $1,541.96; amount of Sunday-school collec- 

 tions, $36,509.88; total contributions of the 

 church, $638,060.24, against $669,799.21 in 

 1876. 



The General Conference of the Church of 

 the United Brethren in Christ met in its quad- 

 rennial session at Westfield, 111., May 10th. 

 The bishops of the Church presided in turn. 

 The quadrennial address of the bishops, after 



* Statistics for 1876. 



