name and exact locality of these innocent islanders?
[252] Bellows, _Restatements of Christian Doctrine_, pp. 228-230.
[253] _Works of H. Ware, jr._, vol. iv. p. 91.
[254] Farley, _Unitarianism Defined_, pp. 208-210.
[255] Bellows, _Restatements of Christian Doctrine_, pp. 306, 307.
[256] Orr, _Unitarianism in the Present Time_, p. 8.
[257] F. H. Hedge, D. D.
[258] _Essays and Reviews, Introduction to Boston Edition._
[259] _Religious Aspects of the Age._ Preface, p. 3.
[260] Bellows, in _Religious Aspects of the Age_, pp. 109-111.
[261] Mayo, in _Religious Aspects of the Age_, pp. 68, 69.
[262] Bellows, in _Religious Aspects of the Age_, pp. 102, 103.
[263] Frothingham, Ibid. pp. 121-126.
[264] _Religious Aspects of the Age_, pp. 131-132.
[265] American Unitarianism is numerically decreasing. The most
favorable estimate of its membership (Schem, _Ecclesiastical Year-Book_,
p. 78), is thirty thousand. From Dr. Sprague's _Annals of the American
Unitarian Pulpit_, pp. xx.-xxi., we derive the following statistical
account of its present strength:
There are in the United States about 263 Societies, of which
Massachusetts has 164, and the city of Boston 21; Maine has 16, New
Hampshire 15, Vermont 3, Rhode Island 3, Connecticut 2, New York 13, New
Jersey 1, Pennsylvania 5, Maryland 2, Ohio 5, Illinois 11, Wisconsin 2,
and Missouri, Kentucky, Minnesota, South Carolina, Louisiana,
California, and the District of Columbia, each one. There are about 345
ministers. There are two theological schools, one at Cambridge, founded
1816; the other at Meadville, Pa.; first opened in 1844, and
incorporated in 1846. The Periodicals are, The Christian Examiner,
tri-monthly, Boston; The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent
Journal, Boston; The Sunday School Gazette, semi-monthly, Boston; The
Christian Register, weekly, Boston; and the Christian Inquirer, weekly,
New York. The missionary and charitable societies are, the American
Unitarian Association, founded in 1825, and incorporated in 1847; the
Unitarian Association of the State of New York; Annual Conference of
Western Unitarian Churches; the Sunday School Society, instituted in
1827, and reorganized in 1854; the Society for promoting Christian
Knowledge, Piety, and Charity, incorporated in 1805; the Massachusetts
Evangelical Missionary Society, instituted in 1807; the Society for
Promoting Theological Education, organized in 1816, and incorporated in
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