William Sweetzer Heywood
William Sweetzer Heywood (1824-1905) trained for the ministry at the Hopedale Community in Milford, Massachusetts, under its founder Adin Ballou, and in 1851 married Ballou's daughter, Abigail Sayles Ballou. He served the community as president and as associate editor of its paper, the Practical Christian, ran the Hopedale Home School with his wife, and later entered the Unitarian ministry, serving several Massachusetts churches and ending his career in mission work among the poor of Boston. After Ballou's death he edited and completed the Autobiography of Adin Ballou (1896) and the History of the Hopedale Community (1897).
In the collection (5 works)
Primitive Christianity and Its Corruptions — Vol. I (1870) with Adin Ballou
The first volume of the discourse series Ballou delivered at Hopedale contrasting the religion of Jesus and the apostles with what the churches had made of it. His constant method: set the primitive standard — in doctrine, spirit, and practice — beside the accumulated corruptions, and let the contrast preach. The series, edited by his son-in-law William S. Heywood, is the mature statement of the 'Practical Christianity' on which Hopedale was founded.
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Primitive Christianity and Its Corruptions — Vol. II (1870) with Adin Ballou
The second volume of the Hopedale discourse series (see Vol. I in this collection for a full account), continuing Ballou's systematic contrast of apostolic Christianity with the doctrines and practices of the churches.
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Primitive Christianity and Its Corruptions — Vol. III (1870) with Adin Ballou
The concluding volume of the Hopedale discourse series (see Vol. I in this collection for a full account), completing the survey of primitive Christian faith and morals against their historic corruptions.
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Autobiography of Adin Ballou, 1803–1890 (1896) with Adin Ballou
The life of Universalism's great radical, told by himself. Adin Ballou — a kinsman of Hosea — preached universal salvation, then staked everything on living it, founding the Hopedale Community in Massachusetts as an experiment in 'Practical Christian' socialism, temperance, abolition, and absolute nonresistance. His doctrine of nonviolence reached Leo Tolstoy, who corresponded with him and acknowledged the debt. Completed and edited by his son-in-law William S. Heywood.
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History of the Hopedale Community (1897) with Adin Ballou
The insider's history of America's most principled utopia: Hopedale 'from its inception to its virtual submergence in the Hopedale parish,' written by its founder in old age and edited posthumously by William S. Heywood. Ballou records the community's founding ideals, its years of modest success, and — with painful candor — its collapse in 1856 when the Draper brothers withdrew their capital. The essential primary source for the experiment, told by the man whose life's hope it was.
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