Congregational churches -- Connecticut -- Colchester]]> First Church of Christ (Colchester, Conn.)]]> Page turner version]]> Link to Primo record]]> First Church of Christ (Stamford, Conn.)]]> Stamford (Conn.) -- History]]> Congregational churches -- Connecticut -- Stamford -- Anniversaries, etc]]> Connecticut -- History]]> "The address and poem, in full, as corrected and revised by the authors, together with a condensed report of all the proceedings, from the Stamford Advocate.".
Church's proper name from Hurd, D.H. History of Fairfield County, Connecticut ... Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co., 1881. The First Congregational Church of Stamford, Connecticut was established in 1635 by dissenters from the Wethersfield, Connecticut congregation. The New Haven Colony, at the suggestion of Rev. John Davenport, offered land to these families within the New Haven Colony territory at Rippowams, now Stamford.

For additional information about the history of the church, see:
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Scoville, Samuel, 1834-1902]]> Stamford, Conn. : s.n.]]> page-turner version]]> Link to Primo record]]>
Union Congregational Church of Christ (Rockville, Conn.) -- History]]> Rockville (Conn.) -- Church history]]> This volume includes a history of the church's first ten years as well as information on the parish rules and orgaizations and a catalog of membership as of 1899.

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Union Congregational Church of Christ (Rockville, Conn.)]]> [Rockville, Conn.] : Journal Press, 1899]]> Link to Primo record]]> Page turner version]]>
Universalism -- Connecticut -- Norwich]]> Norwich (Conn.) -- Church history]]>
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The Universalist Church of America was a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world). Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the name was changed to the Universalist Church of America in 1942. In 1961, it consolidated with the American Unitarian Association to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.

The defining theology of Universalism is universal salvation; Universalists believe that the God of love would not create a person knowing that that person would be destined for eternal damnation. They concluded that all people must be destined for salvation. 

American Universalism developed from the influence of various Pietist and Anabaptist movements in Europe, including Quakers, Moravians, Methodists, Lutherans, Schwenkfelders, Schwarzenau Brethren, and others. Pietists emphasized individual piety and zeal and, following Zinzendorf, as a "religion of the heart." Early followers were most often German in ancestry. The majority of the early American Universalists lived in the Mid-Atlantic colonies, though Rhode Island also had a fair amount of followers.

The Universalist Church of America involved itself in several social causes, generally with a politically liberal bent.

Universalists, along with various other denominations, vigorously opposed slavery as immoral. They also favored postbellum legislation such as the Fifteenth Amendment and the Freedman's Act to enfranchise all American citizens.

Like many American religions, Universalism has generally been amenable to church-state separation. In New England, Baptists, Universalists, and Quakers provided some of the loudest voices calling for disestablishment of the government sponsored churches of the standing order.

On June 25, 1863, Olympia Brown became one of the first women in the United States to receive ordination in a national denomination, Antoinette Brown having been the first when she was ordained by the Congregational Churches in 1853.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalist_Church_of_America

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Williams, Rufus Orland, 1805-1889]]> Norwich, Conn. : G.W. Concklin, ]]> Link to Primo record]]> Page turner version]]> 34023001507641 ]]>

The back of the postcard also includes a short history of the church printed in the upper left hand corner, which states that the church was founded in 1817, the present building was erected in 1908, the congregation numbers around six hundred and all are welcome. ]]>
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