Excerpt from A Voice to Universalists
He is now in his seventy-ninth year, and in the fifty-ninth of his ministry, having begun to preach in the autumn of 1791. His first settlement, as a pastor, was in 1796, over the Universalist Society in Dana, Mass. From this place he removed, in 1803, to Barnard, Vt., and took the charge of the Universalist societies in that town, in Woodstock, Hartland, Bethel, and Bridgewater. After continuing there about six years, he accepted a settlement, in 1809, with the church in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1815, he was called to the church in Salem, Mass; and thence, in Dec. 1817, to the Second, or School Street, Universalist Church, in Boston, with which he is still connected as senior pastor.
Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. osea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire, to a family of Huguenot origin. The son of Maturin Ballou, a Baptist minister, he was self-educated, and devoted himself early on to the ministry. In 1789 he converted to Universalism, and in 1794 became a pastor of a congregation in Dana, Massachusetts.
He founded and edited The Universalist Magazine (1819 -- later called The Trumpet), and The Universalist Expositor (1831 -- later The Universalist Quarterly Review), and wrote about 10,000 sermons as well as many hymns, essays and polemic theological works. He is best known for Notes on the Parables (1804), A Treatise on Atonement (1805) and Examination of the Doctrine of a Future Retribution (1834). These works mark him as the principal American expositor of Universalism.
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