Submitted by Sloan Mason From the (Wilmington, N.C.) Liberalist The First Universalist Society of Duplin County, N.C. held its Annual Meting at the Court House, Kenansville, on the 11th ult. and chose the following officers for the ensuring year: Col. David Hooks, Moderator. Br. Oliver L. Kelly, Clerk. Br. John Miller, Treasurer. Br. James M. Nixon, Correspond. Sec’ry. By a vote of the Society, they consider themselves an Auxiliary Branch of the Universalist Book Society of New York. The regular places for preaching, established within the limits of the Duplin Society, are New Hope, Union (Poley Bridge), Kenansville, and Lime Stone: Once a month at each place. The times of the appointments, will be permanently fixed in a short time. We understand it is intended to erect a house of worship, for the accommodation of the Society, at Kenansville, for which purpose a subscription is now open. The other three stations are already furnished with Meeting Houses. We congratulate the friends of truth, on the animating prospect now before us. Our struggle for life has been long and ardous; but the cause we espouse has at length prevailed over all opposition, our efforts have been systematized, and the Order, of which we have the happiness to be members, though here, in its infancy, is fixed on a permanent and immoveable basis. In point of character, and respectable standing in Society, we are willing to compare the Universalists of North Carolina, with any other order of Christians in the State. We would request of the Clerks or Corresponding Secretaries of the Universal Societies of N. Hanover, Sampson, and Onslow, to hand or send in the minutes of their First Annual Meetings for publication, when convenient.--- Editor. SOURCE: Universalist Magazine [Duplin], 8/11/1827 |