Excerpt from Nine Sermons on Important Doctrinal and Practical Subjects: Delivered in Philadelphia, November, 1834
The Sermons of which this volume is composed, were delivered during a visit of the author to Philadelphia, in the month of N ovem ber, 1834. With the exception of the second Sermon, they were taken down by an_able stenographer of this city - from whom the mss. Were purchased by the publisher. The exception referred to was written out and furnished by the author, in compliance with the urgent solicitation of the undersigned.
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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