New-York tribune., 1874-09-12
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS.
THE UNIvERsAI.IsT CONVENTION

THE UNIvERsAI.IST CONVENTION.
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS AT THE APPROACHING
sKssToN-INTKREsr WITH WHICH 1T is RE-
GARDEp.
The Universalist General Convention VIII
be held In this city next week. beginning on TUESDAY
sept Is ana lasting three days The regular business
meetings will take place the Church of the Divine
Paternity lthe Rev. Dr. Chapin'O, at Fifth ave- and
Forty-hfth-st. ON Monday there VIII DO preliminary
services at 73o D. In the Church OF Our SAVIOR IN
Fifty-seventhst. Eghthave.. where the Rev Asa
SAKE d. D. OF Rochester n. Y. Will preach, and In All
Souls Church. Brooklyn, T. d. where there viii be ser
mon by the Rev C. W. Bddle. OF Lynn. Mass. The first
regular session Of will be held Tuesday
in Dr. Chapn's church. beginning with prayer meet
ing AZ Q a. m The Convention will be organized at 10
n N. At sO D. the report of the Board OF Trustees
will be presented In the evening the Rev. T. j. Sawyer.
u. d., President OF the Tufts Divinity SCHOOL, will
preach the church Beecker and Downiugsts. and
the Rev A A. Miner, d. D. President OF Tufts College,
In the Church OF our Father, at Cermont and Atlantic
aves., Brooklyn. The Convention will assemble the
succeeding days at $50 u. and 2So IN. On Wednes-
day OF II o. M. the Occasional Sermon" will be
deIiveredin Dr. CbapiDS church the Rev. H. Capen
Of Providence r. At p there will be Local re-
the ectureroOm Of the sdne church Az 1850 D.
H. a mas meeting will be held IN Cr Chapms Church
at which addresses will De made by the Rev Drs Chap'n
Miner Ryder Bolles aud Pullman aud the Hon. hehard
Frothingnan IL Is expected that this meeting viii DC
not only interest the public well as 10 the members
OF the Convention On Thursday at GSO p M Communion
servioe will be held Church Of the Divine Pattern
itv and sermon will be delivered by the Rev Fisher,
d. D. President OF the Canton Theological School
The Convention will close Thursday evening Wild
mass conference meeting in the Bleeckerst Chnrch ot
which the Rev O. Adams Of Cincinnati viii preside
and addresses will be delivered by prominent Univer
saiist cerrymen from all parts OF the country.
aJalar ofaaf
States and Canada It's first session was held IN 1866
and n has met annually since the third Tuesday
OF September The Council Of the Convention
comprises the Presidents, VicePresidents ana
Secretaries OF the State Conventions,
and deIegates. both clerical and lay, from the
same. Every State Convention is entitled TO
one clerical and two lay delegates, and II 70 has an
aggregate or fty parishes aud ciergym 10 Two eer
cal and four lay delegates ana toT every
nfty parishes and olerygmen 10 QUO eerlCa' anu
deegates where there are no conventions
every parish. keeung up its legal exsteuoe aud main
tsinng public worship ID entitled 10 ull sup ~
the General Convention. There are state ,Ci Conven
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. New
Jersey, New York. Pennsylydnia, ONO, Miehlgah'
m,ssouri ms,STi and West virginia, and societies
Aisbama Arkansas Nebraska Dakota. Maryland North
California. aud the Provinces OF Quebec Ontario ana
Nova Scotia mere are al M n oc , i ioT rtv m W
valued at S.s45.i47 The church susalns eleven COZ
most noted OF these Tufts College, m Middlesex
County. Mass. Lawrence University at Canton,
New Y0rk aud Birchdel College at Akron. ONO. The
Unversast Church also sustans six weekly papers one
literary and religious monthly, one quarterly, edited by
tbe Rev. Thomas b. Thayer d. D.. OF Boston, Mass
suudaY-schOOl papers, one monthly ulgiLlue' ue
voted sunday y-schOOl work, ana one or two smaller
publications.
Tne Universaist Church Acknowledges the divine mis-
sion aud authority Christ but further.
holds certain positive doctrines concerning God ana
Christ and the nature, duty. aud hua DESTINY OF man
IL believes In the universal FatherhOOd Of God, ana
brotherhood OF man through Christ. as a universal
Savior, aud IN the hna holiness perfection, ana blessed
of all human souls IL also believes IN the fact OF
aud u the certainty OF retputOn, the necessity OF
redemption. and "a moral connection between this and
tue future fe. This Church allows freedom IA modes
OF worship, but vial unity exists IN IT, aud lts
friends claim that never sOstr0ug ana prosper
ous a. to-day Notwithstanding that the unyersalism"
which toe LIBERAL policy OF other churches has en-
cOuragcd may have somewhat retarded Its growth. A
bright future u believed 70 be before IT, rupture
among evangelical bodies b. looked for at distant
dny ana when that comes many believe that the
Liberal CongregauOnalists," the Conservative Uuta-
rfAns" and Progressive Uutvers sts" will occupy
common ground. Tue Convention which viii assemble
here next week regarded with interest 10y all
Uuversalists. 10 is believed by prominent members OF
tnat this city that the attendance Will be
exceptionally large. The exclusion OF the Univor-
salists the Evangelical Alliance last tail VIII.
n believed more than ordinary interest 10 De
taken In their present Convention Ils subject, II m
PROBABLE Will be incidentally discussed next week The
delegate to the Convention will probably number about
800 out the attendance from all parts OF the country vi"
undoubtedly bee rlr greater Elaborate preparations are
making the Uuivershe churches OF THIS city Tor the
reception of their guests. Committee OF Arrange
mems Will attend an the details OF the Convention
post oicc viii bc pldccu ln the Vesubulc OF Dr
Cnun's church through which all members OF the Con
veutOu MAY their letters delivered without
trouble " themselves