The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-11
UNIVERSALIST CONVENTION
EVENT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD,
Prominent Speakers From All Parts of
the Country VIII BE Present-Tenets
of Faith.

OF Faith.
An event of Importance in the reli'
gious world will be the biennial session
of the Universalist general convention
to be held in Boston, October 20 to 20 in
elusive. One of the officers does not put
1t too strongly when he calls it the most
important session since that of the CEN
tennial year, which occurred in 1870 and
was held in Gloucester.
The convention proper will be prece-
ded by ministers meeting opening on
Thursday morning, October 49, These
meetings will be for ministers alone
and open to all the ministers in the TN
iversalist church. The discussions fol-
lowing the leading papers will be under
the five-minute rule.
At the same time that the ministers
meeting is in session on Thursday even
ing, the Universalist club of Boston will
hold it's annual reception and ladies
night at Hotel Vendome. The cover
nor of Massachusetts, the mayor of
Boston, and prominent visiting clergy
men of the Universalist church will be
among the speakers.
The convention proper, as we'll as the
ministers meeting, will be held in the
Columbus avenue Universalist church,
corner of Clarendon street, and will
open on Friday evening, October 20.
The sermon will be delivered by the
Rev. DIR. f. Fl. Capen, president of
Tufts college.
The convention will be formally Or
ganized on Saturday morning, the pres
1dent Charles L. Hutchinson, of Chica.
go, presiding. AT the Saturday morn
ing meeting of the convention reports
will be read by the general secretary,
Rev DR.. G.. l.. Demarest, of Manches-
ter N. H, an active clergyman of
eighty-four years, who has served as
secretary of the convention for twenty
two consecutive years. These reports
will be followed by the appointment of
sessions committees.
On Saturday afternoon and evening
there will be no regular sessions of the
convention, but the time will be given
up to committee work, while an oppor-
tunity will be afforded visitors and del
egates to visit local points of interest
AS the delegates come from all over the
tOIFteu oldleS anu N~clleiutt thCJ WILL nv
doubt gladly avail themselves Of the
privilege.
On Sunday morning, the convention
as such will have no session nor ser
vices Of any kind, but the visiting cler-
gymen of the Universalist church will
occupy various pulpits in and around
Boston.
The occasional sermon of the conven-
ton will be preached at the Columbus
avenue church on Sunday afternoon by
Rev. A. J. Garfield, D. D., pastor of st.
Pauls church, Chicago On Sunday
evening mass meeting will be held in
Music hall Governor WoIcott and
Mayor Quincy have been invited to
make addresses of welcome.
Monday morning the convention be-
gins Its serious business at 10 a. M. pre-
coded by a devotional service at 9 a. m
1t will hold two sessions daily, and
each evening there will be mass meet
ings in the Columbus avenue church.
Monday evening will be inter-denom-
national night, when addresses Will be
made by prominent clergymen of three
different churches DR. Edward Everett
Hale will speak for the Unitarians, DR..
ILNWIII -. bOilcS VI untli Use lol tllc ti-
iversalists, and probably Dr. Mackenzie
of Cambridge for the Congregational
lists, while the attorney general of
Hon. Hosea M. Knowl-
ton, will preside.
On Tuesday the usual sessions of the
will be held morning and
afternoon, while Tuesday evening an
other mass meeting will be held in the
interest of what is known to Universal
lists as their forward Movement"
Rev. DR.. Perrin of Boston will preside, |
and give brief address. Other adj
dresses will be made by Rev. DR.. G. |
Ellwood Nash of Illinois, Rev. Carl F. |
Henry of Cleveland, O., Rev. DR.. Hen
nv T. Cushman of Providence, and Rev. |
Charles Conklin of Springfield.
On Wednesday morning one hour Of |
the convention will be devoted to dis
,ussing the needs of the west when
addresses will be made by Rev r. F.
of Oak Park, Chicago, and |
Rev. Florence kollock Croker of Ann
Arbor, Mich.
On Wednesday afternoon the bust
less Of the convention will close, and
he evening will be given up to a con-
'6CTdtlOIl 1IltctlHS, NiItif IltN' pOocpii IN
Mason, D. D., of Philadelphia, will pre-
side. There will be other addresses by
Rev. Fife X. M. Jones of Barre, vt,
Rev. C. A. Hayden of Augusta, Me,
md Rev. Dr.. A. G.. Rogers of Reading,
Pa.
In view of the great interest attach
ng to this session of the general con-
,ention the following summary of
acts about the Unversalst church will
lave a special interest:
ID There are in the United States
md Canada about one thousand organ
zed Universalist churches or societies
With these are connected somewhat over
lfty thousand families and probably as
many communicates. Six hundred and
orty-five Sunday schools report fifty
wo thousand teachers and pupils. OF
young Peoples Christian unions, $40 re-
ort 1876 members. There are 1853 I'm
clergymen.
(2) OF the thousand organized
hurches, large proportion of them are
n the northern states. and compare
lively few south of the Potomac and
ohio rivers. Nearly one-half of the IN
versalists of the land live in New Eng
and, nearly two thirds in New Eng
md and New York, nearly three
ourths In New England, New York and !
,hio. fn,,r-fift his in those states with IL |