William Henry McGlauflin

William Henry McGlauflin (1856-1927) was an American Universalist minister and denominational executive whose service to the church spanned forty-five years. He held pastorates in New York, Minnesota, Tennessee, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, helped establish Universalist churches in the South, including Atlanta and Harriman, Tennessee, and served as a regional superintendent before becoming General Superintendent of the Universalist General Convention from 1907 to 1916. He wrote Faith with Power (1912), a biography of the Universalist missionary Quillen Hamilton Shinn, and spent his final years as a parish minister in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Quillen Shinn was the last of the great Universalist missionaries — a Civil War veteran who spent his ministry planting churches across the South, preaching in schoolhouses and brush arbors from Virginia to Texas, mocked by critics as the 'Grasshopper Missionary' for the way he hopped from state to state, and beloved for it. McGlauflin's biography, written five years after Shinn's death, preserves the story of the man who carried the denomination's gospel into its hardest territory.

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