Word: universalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Universalist Church Chicago...
...Unitarians assembled in Boston for their 127th annual meeting heard reports from far & near, and found the sky shiny with promise. For one thing, "federal union" of the Unitarians (membership 80,000) and the Universalists (membership 65,000) seemed to be coming along slowly but surely. So far, delegates heard, 47 Unitarian and 22 Universalist congregations have voted on the plan, have ratified it in every case-most often unanimously. Frederick May Eliot, longtime president of the Unitarian Association (and a cousin of Poet T. S. Eliot), predicted defections" from orthodox Protestant churches "on a great scale." If Unitarians...
Unitarian Eliot noted with satisfaction that many in his church (membership: 80,000) and in the like-minded Universalist Church (membership: 65,000) favor a merger. But Dr. Eliot sees this as just a beginning: "Our greatest need is to . . . unite to ourselves in fraternal spirit the lonely, isolated liberal churches and individuals [in orthodox Protestantism]who might then comprise a 'United Liberal Church of America...
Died. Robert D. Towne, 86, onetime Universalist minister who propounded, while he was editor of the now-defunct humor weekly Judge, the famed "How-old-is-Ann?" riddle that intrigued the U.S.; after long illness; in Ambler, Pa. The riddle: "Mary is 24. She is twice as old as Ann was when Mary...
...community gatherings. Other sympathizers organized an Emergency Defense Committee. When the American Legion gave a testimonial dinner to Philbrick last month and Governor Dever proclaimed a "Philbrick Day," the Struik Defense Committee trumpeted its reply: the occasion, it said, was really "Informer's Day." Two days later, the Universalist Church of Annisquam, Mass, dismissed the Rev. George Abbe for being one of the committee's sponsors. The Greater Boston Universalist Ministers' Association promptly protested, and the sympathizers again took heart...