The record-union., 1897-10-17

which takes him all over the country,
especially in the West and South. form
ing scattered universities into churches,
and preaching in communities where
this faith is unheard of. The evening
will be devoted to denominational in
terests, and is announced on the pro-
gramme as AN Evening With our
Selves" In which there will be an ad-
dress by a layman, ITO the ClesSy-
Another platform meeting will close the
third days session, on which the KEY
note is struck in the programme-tltle
for 1t: Forward" The presiding OF
ficer at these sessions will be the we'll
known Chicago banker, Charles Il.
Hutchinson, whose devotion to the Uni
versalist Church is as firm and enthu-
siastic as his interest in the pubic ana
artistic life of his adopted city.
An interesting feature of the conven-
ton will be the conferences to be held
in addition to its regular SESSIONS on
the mornings of the various days. oli
Monday there will be conference OIL
ministers, led by one Of the best-kho"h II
pastors in the West, Rev. DR.. Crum-
On Wednesday a conference OF women
led by Mrs. c. A. Quimby, President oil
the National Woman's Missionary So
ciety, and one of the most prominent
women in the church. On Wednesday
If Will be a conference of Sunday-school
workers, led by DR.. ]. M. Pullman of
Lynn, Mass, whose works in the as
sociated charities of the country have
given him wide repute, and who is
an expert in all matters pertaining TO
Sunday-sehoo work. There Will be
closing conference of pastors on the last
day of the session, and just prior to
adjournment, some time on Friday,
President Hutchinson viii give the
farewell address.
The condition of the Universalisr
Church ds one of prosperity and active
growth. It numbers over thousand
churches and some 700 ministers. 1t has
four fine colleges-Tufts, in Massachu-
setts: ST Lawrence, in New York;
Buchtel, in Ohio, and Lombard, in llll-
nois. 1t has parish properties above in
debtedness amounting to nearly Slo,-
coo, 900. The invested funds of the
General Convention amount to S21l,-
000 and those of the various state
conventions and auxiliary societies to
STA, 000 In 1869, less than thirty years
ago, all these funds aggregated less
than $4,000. The educational inst1tu-
tions under the care of this denomina-
ton will aggregate endowments of be-
tween S2,000.O00 and So, 100000. Fifty
years ago scarcely one of them was IN
existence. The mission work of the
Universalists is large and growing Be
side that which is carried on by the
various State conventions. each in its
own territory, there are the Pa
cific Coast Mission, maintained by
the Woman's Missionary Society; a
mission in the South, with headquar-
ters at Atlanta; one in the Southwest,
with headquarters at ST. Louis, both
under supervision of the National Sec
r,etary. DR.. Shinn. There is also a
f1ourishing mission which has had a
good degree of success, though only
seven years old, in Japan; and move
ment has begun, under Un1yersallst
colored ministers, among their people
in Virginia. The publishing Interests
Of the denomination are largely cared
for by a publishing house in Boston,
with a. capital of eS250000. There are
valuable auxiliary societies in the
church, viz, the Young Peoples Chris
tan Union, numbering some 13,oOo
members, and the Woman's Missionary
Society. The denomination is probably
the most advanced of any in America
in the privileges it comedies to women,
as all it's colleges are co-educauonal'
and it's theological schools as well, ana
there are over fifty women already IL
censed or ordained in it's ministry.