Word: universalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members, the Reverend George A. Abbe of Gloucester, was ousted from his position as minister by his parish in Annisquam for taking part in the Committee's activities. The Greater Boston Universalist Ministers' Association sprang to his defense Tuesday and several other groups have added support since then...
...Unitarians (membership: 75,000) celebrated the 12 5th anniversary of the American Unitarian Association with a 998-delegate convocation in Boston that voted unanimously in favor of a "federal union" with the 53,000-member Universalist Church. The well-dressed, easygoing Unitarians enlivened their sessions with jokes instead of hymns; one suggested that the new united church be named "Uni" for Universalist and "tarian" for Unitarian. Another defined the difference between the two denominations: "The Universalist thinks that God is too good to send men to Hell, and the Unitarian thinks that men are too good to be sent there...