With the explicit assistance the Young People's Christian Union, this second missionary effort enabled the Universalists to sustain their presence and construct a church building on East Harris in 1900.

At the start of 1879, the Universalists in Georgia had a statewide rural presence of 10 churches with a total membership of 236.

William Clayton Bowman attempted to establish an urban Universalist presence in Atlanta.

"I still held to the Bible as the infallible word of God, but it was redeemed in my mind from the horrible meanings given to it by orthodoxy."

[2] In July 1879, Bowman held several Universalist services in the Hall of Representatives in the Georgia Capitol Building in Atlanta.

[7] Bowman continued his connection with the Liberal and Spiritual Church until July 1883 when he left Atlanta for Cincinnati.

Clayton sporadically held Sunday services until the summer of 1882, after which the Universalist activities in Atlanta ceased.

In October 1893, Universalist missionary work resumed in Atlanta with an announcement in the local paper stating that "Rev.

Shinn, the National Evangelist of the Universalist Church will visit the city for ten days.

In his early career, he preached on a circuit that included Canada and Nebraska as well as holding the pastorate in several New England churches.

[8] More significantly for the resumption of missionary work in Atlanta, in 1893 the Universalist’s Young People's Christian Union (Y.P.C.U.)

[9] The Young People's Christian Union was organized in 1889 and adopted missionary work as its main focus.

The announcement in the local papers of the weeklong revival revealed the difficulties the Universalist’s message of universal salvation faced in a community holding orthodox religious views on sin and eternal damnation.

McGlauflin resigned his pastorate at the Grace Universalist Church in Harriman, Tennessee, an earlier Y.P.C.U.

To usher in the twentieth century, the Federation of Free Churches in Great Britain embraced the idea of a religious revival called the National Simultaneous Mission.

[12] The idea caught the imagination of Christians in the United States who envisioned a coast-to-coast, simultaneous revival "born in prayer and the preaching of the old-fashioned Gospel and carried forward in trusting dependence on the Holy Spirit.

The next day, The Atlanta Constitution carried an article with the headline, "Plans Complete for Religious Revival" stating that two prominent Universalists, Rev.

G. Campbell Morgan, a prominent British-born evangelical who had recently moved to Massachusetts, shocked an audience of 2,200 people in an impassioned speech stating, "I can not and will not enter into any alliance with men whose creed denies the essential elements of salvation.

Len G. Broughton, the fundamentalist minister of Atlanta’s Baptist Tabernacle, added his voice to the opposition.

Although there were ministers who supported the Universalists and Unitarians, in the end, both denominations were excluded from the gospel campaign.

The Universalist church building on East Harris Street was sold in April 1920 for $20,000 (~$230,481 in 2023) and the proceeds were set aside to assist the newly federated congregation.

The merger continued until 1951 when the combined church was engulfed in controversy regarding accusations of communist sympathizing and racial segregation.