The Book of Religions / Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches

Universalists.

There are, in the United States and Territories, one United States Convention, one United States Universalist Historical Society, twelve State Conventions, fifty-nine Associations, eight hundred and seventy-five societies, five hundred and fifty meeting-houses, and five hundred and forty preachers. Besides these, there are twenty-one periodicals published by the order, and twenty new books have been published within the year, besides reprints. There are also five schools in the patronage of the denomination. There is an Educational Association in Maine, a Sunday School Association in Massachusetts, a Publishing Association in Pennsylvania, a public library of fifteen hundred volumes in Ohio, and two Book Associations in Indiana and Illinois.

By adding the numbers of societies, etc., in the British Provinces, to those in the United States, there are, at present, the grand total of one General Convention, twelve State Conventions, fifty-five Associations, eight hundred and ninety-five societies, five hundred and fifty-six meeting-houses, and five hundred and forty-six preachers.

Periodicals.—Gospel Banner and Christian Pilot, Augusta, Me.; Eastern Rose-Bud, Portland, Me.; Universalist and Family Visitor, [pg 332] Contoocookville, N. H.; Universalist Watchman, Montpelier, Vt.; Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, Boston, Mass.; Christian Freeman and Family Visitor, Boston, Mass.; Universalist and Ladies Repository, Boston, Mass.; Light of Zion, and Sabbath School Contributor, Boston, Mass.; Star and Palladium, Lowell, Mass.; Gospel Messenger, Providence, R. I.; Universalist, Middletown, Ct.; New York Christian Messenger, New York city; Universalist Union, New York city; Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate, Utica, N. Y.; Western Luminary, Rochester, N. Y.; The Nazarene, Philadelphia, Pa.; Christian Warrior, Richmond, Va.; Southern Universalist, Columbus, Ga.; Star in the West, Cincinnati, Ohio; Christian Teacher, Lafayette, Ind.; Better Covenant, Rockford, Ill.

We have been much assisted in our missionary statistics by the kindness of the secretaries of the several Missionary Boards, and by permission of the proprietor, Mr. F. Rand, for the use of his valuable Missionary Chart, prepared with great care, in 1840, by the Reverend Messrs. Jefferson Hascall and Daniel Wise.

Those of the Congregationalists, Baptists, Methodists, and Episcopalians, are brought down to 1841, and are quite accurate; but the efforts of some of the other denominations in this great and glorious cause are not fully stated, as some of the items have not been reported.

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