Historical Sketches and Incidents: Universalism in the State of New York

Central and western New York was Universalism's great growth region in the early republic — the same 'burned-over district' that bred so many American religious movements — and Stephen R. Smith was its pioneer preacher. His sketches record the founding of societies, the itinerant ministers, the debates and revivals, told largely from personal knowledge. The primary printed source for the denomination's expansion across New York.

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