The average annual increase of this denomination during the last twenty-five years has been as follows:
| Ministers. | Churches. | Members. | |
| In 25 years | 73 | 61 | 4,734 |
30. The denomination of "Unitarians" arose in this country from a division of opinion among Congregationalists on the divinity of Christ. Their statistics contain no report of the membership. All who are respectable and orderly members of the society are admitted to the sacraments if they desire to be.
Their numbers for a series of years have been estimated at 30,000.
| Ministers. | Societies. | Members. | |
| 1830 | — | 193 | — |
| 1840 | — | 200 | — |
| 1850 | 250 | 244 | — |
| 1860 | 298 | — | — |
| 1863 | 43 | 260 | 30,000 |
| 1864 | 326 | 250 | — |
| 1867 | 370 | 300 | — |
The average annual increase has been estimated for a series of forty or more years at about one per cent., or 300.
31. The denomination of "Universalists" first made its appearance in England about 1750. In Gloucester, Massachusetts, the first Universalist society was formed in 1779. No statistics of the denomination contain the "membership" like those of other denominations, as to believe is to become a member. The active members have been estimated in 1850 at 60,000, although the population among which Universalism exists to the exclusion of other denominations may be ten times greater.
| Ministers. | Societies. | Members. | |
| 1842 | 646 | 990 | — |
| 1850 | 700 | 918 | 60,000 |
| 1859 | 724 | 913 | — |
| 1865[24] | 496 | 681 | — |
| 1867 | 523 | 732 | 80,000 |
| 1868 | 588 | 792 | — |
| 1869 | 520 | 844 | — |
Average annual increase in twenty years, 1,000.