Excerpt from Hymns, Composed by Different Authors, at the Request of the General Convention of Universalists of the New England States and Others: Adapted to Public and Private Devotion
The whole creation owns a God, All nature speaks his name; And from his own eternal word The whole creation came. 9 The beasts, the birds, and creeping things, His pow'r and wisdom prove; The fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, Proclaim a God of love.
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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