UNIVERSALISTS

a religious denomination mostly confined to the United States. They believe that it is the purpose of God to save every member of the human race from sin. The Universalist denomination 1s of modern origin and dates from the arrival in the United States of the Reverend John Murray, of London, at Good Luck, New Jersey, in September 1770. Wherever he preached in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ma achusetts societies followed. The first representative settlement was at Gloucester, Ma achusetts, where a church was built in 1780. The convention at Philadelphia in 1790, among other things, drew up and published the Universalists’ confe ion of faith, and favored a congregational form of polity. Other conventions led to the Eee general convention which meets jiennially. President, Roger 8. Gafler (1922). The denomination maintains 3 colleges, 3 seminaries and 3 academies. The organization includes, Board of Foreign Mi ions, General Sunday School A embly, Women’s National Mi ionary A ociation, Committee on Public Welfare, Committee on Foreign Relations, National Young People’s Christian Union and a Publication House. Churches 650; Ministers 561; Members 58,566; Sunday Schools 467; 8S. S. members 58,442.