Edwin Martin Stone

Edwin Martin Stone, born in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1805, was a Congregational minister in Beverly, Massachusetts, from 1834 to 1847 before moving to Providence, Rhode Island, where he led the city's ministry at large, a mission to the poor, until 1877. Trained as a printer and journalist, he was a prolific local historian and served for nearly three decades as librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society. His Biography of Rev. Elhanan Winchester (1836) is an early life of the Universalist evangelist.

The standard life of the co-founder of American Universalism. Stone follows Winchester from his New England Baptist beginnings through his sensational Philadelphia ministry — where his embrace of universal restoration cost him his pulpit — his London years preaching to large congregations and befriending reformers, and his final itinerant decade in America. It preserves letters, anecdotes, and firsthand recollections of a man whose warmth and learning even his opponents conceded.

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