Nelson Doolittle
Nelson Doolittle was a Universalist minister active in Ohio in the 1840s. He was pastor of the Universalist church in Akron until late 1845 and served as an associate editor of the Akron denominational paper The Glad Tidings and Ladies' Universalist Magazine. He is chiefly remembered for a public debate on universal salvation with the Methodist minister John H. Power, held at LaPorte in Lorain County, Ohio, from July 29 to August 6, 1845, and published the following year; a funeral sermon he preached was also printed in Philadelphia in 1853. His birth and death dates are not well established.
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A Discussion of the Subject of Universalism (1846) with John Hamilton Power
A frontier debate from Ohio's Western Reserve: John H. Power, a prominent Methodist itinerant and presiding elder, against the Universalist Nelson Doolittle, at LaPorte in Lorain County. The published record preserves the alternating arguments on universal salvation and endless punishment as they were actually urged before a rural audience — a fine specimen of the debate culture that carried the Universalist controversy into every county seat in the West.
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