BALLOU, HOSEA (1771-1852)

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BALLOU, HOSEA (1771-1852) , American Universalist clergy-man, was born in Richmond, New

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

, on the 30th of April 1771. He was a son of

Maturin

MATURIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1782-1824)

Ballou, a Baptist minister, was self-educated, early devoted himself to the ministry, became a convert to Universalism in 1789, and in 1794 became a pastor of a congregation at Dana, Massachusetts. He preached at Barnard,

Vermont

VERMONT

, and the surrounding towns in 18o118o7; at Portsmouth, New

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

, in 18071815; at Salem, Massachusetts, in 18151817; and as pastor of the Second Universalist Church in Boston from December 1817 until his death there on the 7th of June 1852. He founded and edited The Universalist Magazine (1819; later called The Trumpet) and The Universalist Expositor (1831; later The Universalist Quarterly

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

); wrote about 1o,000 sermons, many hymns, essays and polemic theological works; and is best known for Notes on the Parables (1804), A Treatise on Atonement (1805) and Examination of the Doctrine of a Future Retribution (1834); in these, especiallythe second, he showed himself the principal American expositor of Universalism. His

great

GREAT

contribution to his Church was the

body

BODY

of denominational literature he left. From the theology of John Murray, who like Ballou has been called the father of American Universalism," he differed in that he divested Universalism of every trace of Calvinism and opposed legalism and trinitarian views.
Consult the biography by

Thomas

Whittemore (4.vols., Boston, 1854--1855) and that by Oscar F. Safford (Boston, 1889) ;. and J.. C. Adams, Hosea Ballou and the Gospel Renaissance (Boston, 1904).
His grand-nephew, HOSEA BALLOU (17961861), born in

Halifax

Vermont

VERMONT

, on the 18th of October 1796, preached to Universalists in Stafford, Connecticut (18151821); and in Massachusetts, in Roxbury (18211838) and in Medford (18381853); and in 1853 was elected. first president of Tufts College at Medford, serving in that office until shortly before his death, which took place at Somerville, Massachusetts, on the 27th of May 186i. He was the first (1847) to urge the necessity of a Universalist denominational college, and this did much towards the

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

of Tufts. He was associated with the elder Hosea Ballou in editing The Universalist Quarterly

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

; edited an edition of Sismondi's History of the Crusades (1833); and wrote the Ancient History of Universalism, down to A.D. 553 (1829; 2nd ed., 1842).

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