. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and ery. Under this arrangement,which continued in full force till 1837, andwas not completely abrogated tjH 1852, thegreater part of the advantages enured to thePresbyterians, very feW Congregationalchurches being organized in the middle andwestern states, and a considerable portioneven of these, under the arrangement forrepresentation in the Presbyteries, graduallybecoming Presbyterian. It resulted fromthis liberality, that while there were nearlya hundred thousand former members of Con-gregational churches who had
. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and ery. Under this arrangement,which continued in full force till 1837, andwas not completely abrogated tjH 1852, thegreater part of the advantages enured to thePresbyterians, very feW Congregationalchurches being organized in the middle andwestern states, and a considerable portioneven of these, under the arrangement forrepresentation in the Presbyteries, graduallybecoming Presbyterian. It resulted fromthis liberality, that while there were nearlya hundred thousand former members of Con-gregational churches who had contributed toswell the numbers of the Presbyterian andReformed churches, the actual munber ofcommunicants in Congregational churches inthe entire country, in 1850, at the expirationof eighty years from 1770, did not much ex-ceed 200,000. There had been in this inter-val, it is true, a very considerable loss inMassachusetts (mostly from 1810 to 1830)by the fiilling away of the Unitarians. Thishad probably caused a diminution of fifteento ciKhteeu thousand members. But soon Ea. HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF THE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. 533 afttr ) tliere was a spirit of greater ac-tivity and aixgie^sive action roused in theCongregational churches. This found ex-pression, in 1852, in the National Congrega-tional Convention, a sort of General Synodor Council, which met at Albany. ThisConvention initiated measures for greaterdenominational missionary activity, advisedthe raising of a fund of to aid in theerection of Congregational churches in thenew states and territories, and largely in-creased efforts for the extension of Congre-gationalism as a denominational a result of this Convention and the spiritwhich prompted it, the growth of the denom-ination has been rapid and healthy in thewestern states and territories, and duringthe recent war and since, it has proved itselfpossessed of great energy and ability in pro-pagating Christianity iu its simpler forms
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