Editing Hosea Ballou (section)

==Life and career==
Hosea Ballou was born in [[Richmond, New Hampshire]], to a family of [[Huguenot]] origin. The family claimed to be of [[Anglo-Normans|Anglo-Norman]] heritage. The son of Maturin Ballou, a [[Baptist]] minister, Hosea Ballou was self-educated, and devoted himself early on to the ministry. In 1789 he converted to [[Christian universalism|Universalism]], and in 1794 became pastor of a congregation in [[Dana, Massachusetts]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Ballou, Hosea|volume=3|page=282}} This cites:
:The biography by [[Thomas Whittemore (Universalist)|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).</ref> Ballou was also a high-ranking [[freemasonry|freemason]], who attained the position of [[Masonic Lodge Officers#Junior Warden|Junior Grand Warden]] of the [[Grand Lodge of New Hampshire]] in 1811.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.catholicism.org/hosea-ballou-universalism.html |title= Hosea Ballou&nbsp;— Son of Richmond&nbsp;— Father of Universalism |access-date=July 21, 2008 |author= Sister Mary Monica, M.I.C.M., Tert. |work= catholicism.org |date= February 20, 2006 |publisher=Saint Benedict Center, Richmond, New Hampshire}}</ref>

Ballou preached at [[Barnard, Vermont]], and surrounding towns in 1801–1807; at [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]], in 1807–1815; at [[Salem, Massachusetts]], in 1815–1817; and, as pastor of the Second Universalist Church of Boston, from December 1817 until his death there.<ref name="EB1911"/> He was buried at the [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]].

[[Image:2ndUniversalistChurch SchoolSt Boston.png|thumb|left|Second Universalist Church, [[School Street]], Boston; built 1817]]

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 [[hymn]]s, 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]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

Ballou married Ruth Washburn; children included [[Maturin Murray Ballou]].<ref>Safford. 1890</ref>  He is the grand-uncle of [[Hosea Ballou II]], the first president of Tufts University.