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...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...
Meeting in Rochester, N.Y. for their week-long Biennial Assembly, 700 delegates of the Universalist Church of America talked about cutting loose once & for all from "supernatural Christianity" and proclaiming a "truly universal faith." The Universalist Church, said the Rev. Brainard Gibbons of Wausau, Wis., should "proclaim a new type of universalism which is boundless in scope, as broad as humanity, and as infinite as the universe. For a long time, Universalists have been reaching beyond the narrow bounds of Christianity to pluck their grapes of knowledge from the vines growing in the boundless vineyards of truth, and the religious...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...
...Because about one in every four U.S. marriages fails, the Rev. Gordon B. McKeeman, a Universalist minister in Worcester, Mass., decided that perhaps the old wedding vows were exacting too much of a promise from newlyweds. Now, he said, if the couple agrees, he is willing to change the vow from "So long as ye both shall live," to one he considers more in tune with the times-"So long as ye both shall love...
...definition of the difference between Unitarians and Universalists [is that] the Universalist believes God is too good to damn him, and the Unitarian believes he is too good to be damned...