Proceedings at the Universalist Centennial, Gloucester, 1870

The official record of the great celebration held at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in September 1870 to mark one hundred years since John Murray's landing in America. Thousands attended; the volume preserves the sermons, historical addresses, letters, and festivities, with speeches by the leading Universalists of the day. Beyond its commemorative value it is a portrait of the denomination at its nineteenth-century high-water mark, taking stock of its first century.

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