Alonzo Ames Miner

Alonzo Ames Miner (1814-1895) was a Universalist minister and educator, born in Lempster, New Hampshire. Ordained in 1839, he served congregations in Methuen, Lowell, and Boston, Massachusetts, spending most of his career at Boston's Second Universalist Church. From 1862 to 1875 he was the second president of Tufts College, continuing his Boston pastorate without salary for the college post, and he is credited with restoring the young institution's finances. He was also prominent in public education and the temperance movement, serving many years on the Massachusetts Board of Education and running for governor of Massachusetts as the Prohibition candidate in 1878.

Five lectures on endless punishment and the future life by A. A. Miner, pastor of Boston's School Street Church and second president of Tufts College. The 'old forts' of the title are the traditional strongholds of the doctrine of endless punishment — the favorite proof-texts and arguments — which Miner sets out to capture one by one. Delivered at the height of his career, the lectures give a good sense of how a leading Universalist actually argued before a popular audience.

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