Ballou, Adin (băl
`), 1803–90, American Universalist clergyman, b. Cumberland, R.I. He was prominent in the movement that resulted in the Massachusetts Association of Universal Restorationists (1831–41). In 1841 he organized near Milford, Mass., the Hopedale Community, one of the religious utopian communities of the period. He was its president and edited its periodical, the Practical Christian. The Hopedale Community, whose dissolution as a communal enterprise began c.1857, merged (1868) with the Unitarian Hopedale Parish, of which Ballou was pastor until 1880. His writings include Practical Christian Socialism (1854), Primitive Christianity and Its Corruptions (1870), and History of the Hopedale Community (1897).
Ballou, Adin (1803–90) Universalist clergyman, reformer; born in Cumberland, R.I. A Universalist minister who preached throughout Massachusetts (1823–41), he was founder of the Hopedale Community—one of the first of such American Utopian enterprises—in Milford, Mass., (1841–68). He preached non-resistance throughout the Civil War, then saw his community turned into an industrial center; still he remained pastor of Hopedale Parish (through 1880). Although his efforts at establishing a utopian community failed, he exerted considerable influence on Unitarian and Universalist thought during his almost 60 years as a clergyman.
`), 1803–90, American Universalist clergyman, b. Cumberland, R.I. He was prominent in the movement that resulted in the Massachusetts Association of Universal Restorationists (1831–41). In 1841 he organized near Milford, Mass., the Hopedale Community, one of the religious utopian communities of the period. He was its president and edited its periodical, the Practical Christian. The Hopedale Community, whose dissolution as a communal enterprise began c.1857, merged (1868) with the Unitarian Hopedale Parish, of which Ballou was pastor until 1880. His writings include Practical Christian Socialism (1854), Primitive Christianity and Its Corruptions (1870), and History of the Hopedale Community (1897).
Bibliography
See his autobiography, edited by his son-in-law, W. S. Heywood (1896).
Ballou, Adin (1803–90) Universalist clergyman, reformer; born in Cumberland, R.I. A Universalist minister who preached throughout Massachusetts (1823–41), he was founder of the Hopedale Community—one of the first of such American Utopian enterprises—in Milford, Mass., (1841–68). He preached non-resistance throughout the Civil War, then saw his community turned into an industrial center; still he remained pastor of Hopedale Parish (through 1880). Although his efforts at establishing a utopian community failed, he exerted considerable influence on Unitarian and Universalist thought during his almost 60 years as a clergyman.
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