The Life of Rev. John Murray

The autobiography of the 'Father of American Universalism,' completed after his death by his wife, the essayist Judith Sargent Murray. It tells one of the founding stories of American religion: Murray, a bereaved London preacher who had abandoned the ministry, lands by accident on the New Jersey shore in 1770 and meets Thomas Potter, a farmer who had built a chapel and was waiting for God to send him a preacher of universal salvation. Murray went on to found the Gloucester church, defend its legal rights, and lead the movement's first generation.

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