Central Universalist Society (Boston, Mass.)

The Central Universalist Society was a Universalist congregation in Boston, established in 1822 and incorporated in January 1823. Its meeting house, built in 1823 on Bulfinch Street on Beacon Hill, gave the society the name by which it was later known, the Bulfinch Street Church. Paul Dean, previously of Boston's First Universalist Church and a leading voice of the Restorationist wing of the movement, was its pastor from 1823 to 1840, and the society issued the hymn book Christian Hymns (1823) for its worship.

The hymnbook prepared for Paul Dean's Central Universalist Society in Boston — the congregation John Murray had served — 'adapted to the worship of God our Saviour in public and private devotion.' A local, congregational hymnbook of a kind common before denominational uniformity, and a relic of the Boston society that stood somewhat apart from Ballou's wing of the movement.

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