George Rogers
George Rogers was an itinerant Universalist preacher active in the 1830s and 1840s, remembered chiefly for his autobiographical Memoranda of the Experience, Labors, and Travels of a Universalist Preacher (Cincinnati, 1845). He made long evangelistic tours through the western and southern states; a circuit begun in 1837 carried him across Alabama, and his account of that journey remains a frequently cited picture of religion on the southern frontier. Most of his books were issued in Cincinnati, including the apologetic work The Pro and Con of Universalism (first published in parts from 1837), the collection Tales from Life (1841), a Universalist hymn book (1843), and the satire Adventures of Elder Triptolemus Tub (1846).
In the collection (3 works)
Tales from Life (1841)
Didactic fiction from the great itinerant: stories 'designed to illustrate certain religious doctrines' — the terrors of endless-hell preaching, the moral power of universal hope — drawn from the people and places Rogers knew from his years on the road. The missionary of the Memoranda turning novelist to reach readers sermons could not.
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The Pro and Con of Universalism (1842)
The itinerant's summa: Rogers — whose Memoranda of his preaching travels is also in this collection — sets out the whole controversy 'both as to its doctrines and moral bearings,' argument and objection side by side, distilled from a thousand frontier debates. Long a standard gift to inquirers in the West and South.
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Memoranda of the experience, labors, and travels of a Universalist preacher (1845)
George Rogers was Universalism's tireless missionary to the South and West — an English-born preacher who rode thousands of miles a year through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the lower Mississippi valley, preaching wherever a courthouse or grove would hold a crowd. His memoranda record the journeys, debates, kindnesses, and hardships of that life with self-deprecating humor, and form one of the liveliest firsthand pictures of frontier religion in the period.
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