This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 29

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1929 The first service of the Humanist Society, the first independent Humanist congregation, was held at Steinway Hall in New York City. Charles Francis Potter, a Unitarian minister and one of the signers of the first Humanist Manifesto, conducted the service and delivered the sermon, “A New Faith for a New Age.”

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 28

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1887 – The influential Universalist Clinton Lee Scott was born in Newport, Vermont. He served Universalist churches all across the country. He also served as superintendent of churches for the Massachusetts and later Connecticut Universalist Conventions. Scott founded the Charles Street Meeting House in Boston in 1949 and was one of the architects of the consolidation between Universalists and Unitarians. Scott was the only Universalist minister to sign the Humanist Manifesto II. He wrote The Universalist Church of America: A Short History. Read more about the Charles Street Meeting House in the biography of Unitarian minister and poet Kenneth Leo Patton at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org – the digital library of Unitarian Universalism.

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 27

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The Seal of Raków, Poland

1616 – The Unitarian Church in Rakow, Poland, sent Peter Statorius III and John Lunkwitz to Altorf, Germany, to help free Unitarian students imprisoned for their beliefs.

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 26

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1957 – Arthur Powell Davies died at age 55. Three sitting Supreme Court justices attended his memorial service. An Englishman, Davies was educated for Methodist ministry but converted to Unitarianism in 1932. He served in New Jersey before settling at All Souls Church (Unitarian) in Washington, D.C., in 1944. Davies worked with Unitarian Advance, organizing offspring congregations in Washington’s suburbs, and co-founded Americans for Democratic Action, which opposed McCarthyism. Read more about Arthur Powell Davies at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org – the digital library of Unitarian Universalism.

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 25

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1869 – John Murray Atwood was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. First a reporter for The Rocky Mountain News, he followed his father in becoming a Universalist minister and served churches in New York, Minnesota, and Maine. Atwood taught social ethics and served as dean at St. Lawrence University. He was also president of the Universalist General Convention.

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 24

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1825 – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was an important African-American feminist, abolitionist, and writer. Harper was a strong advocate of the Underground Railroad and worked for women’s suffrage, temperance, and education. A member of the First Unitarian Church in Philidephia, Harper was also a poet and popular novelist. She was also helped found the National Association of Colored Women. Read more about Frances Ellen Watkins Harper at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org – the digital library of Unitarian Universalism.

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 23

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1642 – Harvard College, established in 1636 to train ministers, held its first commencement ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although it is now nondenominational, Harvard remains a major educational center for training Unitarian Universalist ministers. Read about the history of Harvard College in Abiel Holmes’s History of Cambridge.

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 22

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Universalist Memorial Church, Winchester, New Hampshire

1803 – The Universalist Church of America adopted the Winchester Profession at Winchester, New Hampshire. The Winchester Profession outlined Universalist belief in three tenets: that the Old and New Testaments reveal the character of God and the final destination of humanity, that there is one God and he is revealed in Jesus Christ, and that holiness and happiness are inseparably connected. It held to the Bible when Unitarian belief in the Bible was being undermined by the influence of higher criticism.

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 21

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Mt. Fuji, Japan

1878 – Maud Simonton Cary was born. She was ordained a Universalist minister in 1919 and held several pastorates before leaving for Japan as a home missionary under the sponsorship of the Universalist Board of Foreign Missions. Her husband, Henry Montfort Cary, went with her. Maude Simonton Cary was popular with the Japanese in spite of conflict between Japan and the United States.

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This Day in Unitarian Universalist History September 20

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1643 – Lucius Carey, the second Lord Falkland, died. He was a writer of significant learning and one of the first Socinians in England. He was born about 1610 in Burford, Oxfordshire, England. King Charles made him principal secretary of state and privy councilor. Carey fought on the side of the king in the English civil war and was killed in battle before he was 34.

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