Hosea Ballou Writer
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Apr 30, 1771
- Died: Jun 6, 1852
Hosea Ballou (April 30, 1771 - June 7, 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.
Hosea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire, to a family of Huguenot origin. The family was disputed to be of Anglo-Norman heritage but this has no foundation, and due to his ancestor being named Mathurin (Maturin) Ballou (Bellou), a French given name not found anywhere in England or any such English versions of the name this is highly unlikely. 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. Ballou was also a high-ranking freemason, and he attained the position of Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire in 1811.
He 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 in Boston from December 1817 until his death there.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
happiness
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
courage
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
inspirational
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
aging
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
religion
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
nature
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
happiness
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
education