Quillen Hamilton Shinn

Quillen Hamilton Shinn (1845-1907) was the Universalist denomination's best-known traveling missionary, often called the "St. Paul of the Universalist Church." Born in what is now West Virginia, he served in the Union Army during the Civil War, studied at the Canton Theological School of St. Lawrence University, and after two decades of New England pastorates was appointed General Missionary of the Universalist General Convention in 1895 and missionary to the southern states in 1900. He was credited with founding some forty churches and drawing dozens of people into the ministry, and he helped establish Universalist summer assemblies, including the Ferry Beach conference grounds in Maine.

The Grasshopper Missionary's own book: the gospel of the larger hope as Shinn actually preached it in schoolhouses and brush arbors across the South — direct, warm, and built to convince plain people in one hearing. His biography, Faith with Power, is also in this collection; this is the voice the biography describes.

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