1834-1836 NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSALIST. Is that a Nudie Ghost? Nope. It's a Methodist Streaker!

This complete, two-volume run of the Star in the East and New-Hampshire Universalist is highly significant primary record of the explosive theological, social, and political transformations gripping New England during the Second Great Awakening.

The periodical served as a vital regional organ for Universalism during a period of fierce sectarian debate. Universalist theology, centered on the radical idea of universal salvation and the rejection of a literal hell, challenged the dominant Calvinism [and Arminianism] of the day. In these pages, editors and contributors engaged in aggressive rhetorical warfare against orthodox revivals and religious dogmatism on the one hand and the rise of skepticism, such as Robert Taylor's infidel work, The Diegesis, on the other.

Beyond theological questions, this complete run captures the exact moment Christian Universalism was wrestling with significant social reform. These 104 issues provide an unedited, week-by-week look at how regional religious communities debated the pressing moral crises of the 1830s, including early abolitionist movements, temperance, and the separation of church and state. 

An extensive cataloging of the contents available below.

John Greenleaf Adams [Ed.]; L. F. W. Andrews [Ed.]. Star in the East and New-Hampshire Universalist. Volume 1. No. 1 through Volume 2, No. 104. April 5, 1834 through April 2, 1836. Complete. Concord, New Hampshire. Kimball & Adams. 1834-1836. 416pp.

Contents for Volume 1, April, 1834 through March 1835:

An Unpublished Sermon on the Doctrine of Eternal Misery; Calvinists, Hopkinsians, & Arminians - Look at This!; The Ultimate Triumph of the Gospel; Endless Misery and Total Depravity; The Devil; Christ and His Mission; Glad Tidings; The Puritan Fathers; The Paternal Character of God; Reply to a Methodist; Victims of Protracted Meetings [Suicide under Despair of Election, etc.]; A Ghost Flashing Women at Night Turns out to be a Methodist; The Two Chances - A Sermon by John Gregory; On Self Murder [Suicide]; The Glorious Gospel of "Endless Misery!"; The Apocalypse; Accusations of Licentiousness among Universalists; A Man Committed to an Asylum for Fear of Hell; Revival Scenes [against Lyman Beecher]; Popularity Hunters; Limitarianism vs. Universalism; Education a Cure for Bigotry; The Second Death; Wrong Views of Universalism; The New Measures; Love for Enemies; The Dying Slave; Election and Reprobation; Sodom and Gomorrah; The Truth of the Resurrection of Jesus; Heretical Preachers in New Hampshire; The Peace Society; Reply to Dr. Hawes' Tract; Limitarians and Maniacs [Doctrine of Election Leading to Insanity]; On the Purposes of Punishment; Partialism vs. Universalism; The Inquiry Meeting; Orthodoxy; Fanaticism; Interesting News from Burmah - Eugenio Kincaid; Divine Revelation; Burning of the Convent at Charlestown; The Writings of George Washington; Hypocrisy and Spiritual Slavery; Annihilationism; Jonathan Edwards on the Means of Revival; Severe Preaching; Will the Heathen be Saved? Christ shall Triumph!; Malcolm an Witchcraft; Fraud and Suicide; Showers of Money for Dr. Beecher; Trial of the Pirates of Boston; John Wesley on the Law; Burchardism [Jedediah Burchard]; The Bible Alone; Calvinism; Sharp Shooting; Spectral Illusions [Ghosts]; Female Gamblers; Calvinism and Infidelity; An Attempted Assassination on the President; A New Type and Stereotype Foundry in Boston; A Clergyman Gambler; New Measures and A Maniac; Revival Needed; More on Jedediah Burchard; Delusion; The Universal Holiness and Happiness of Mankind; The Anxious Meeting and the Maniac; Capital Punishment; The Anger of God; The Reign of Grace; etc. 

Contents for Volume 2, April, 1835 through March 1836:

The Heathen!; Capital Punishment; Total Abstinence from Strong Drink; Essay on the Intellectual and Moral Power of Universalism; Mirror of Calvinistic Fanatical Revivals; Atheistical Process of Creation; On Infant Damnation; Report of Pirate Attack on Captain Little of the Brig Philadelphia; Question for Arminians; Superstition and Presentiment; Call no Man Master; Pseudo-Universalists; Strong Delusions; Religious Bigotry and Superstition; Temperance; Scene on Board of a Steam Boat; The Reign of Grace; For What Came Christ?; Jedediah Burchard at Dartmouth College; Tendency of the Gospel to Peace; Heresy-Phobia; Foreknowledge and Foreordination; The Ultimate Triumph of the Gospel; Effects of Preaching the Gospel; Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]; Death-Bed Tormenters; An Evil Spirit; Two More Victims Die of Suicide because of Calvinism; Terrifying Children; On Free Inquiry; Endless Punishment; Objections to Universalism; The Joy Produced by Religion; Burchard the Fanatic; Christ Preaching to the Spirits in Prison; The Spirit of Calvinism Manifested; Total Depravity; Finally Impenitent; Retribution; Opinions of Thomas Jefferson; Presbyterianism not Christianity; Pro-Dis-Tracted Meetings; The Supreme Power by Edward Everett; Hell; Omnipresence Eternity and the Love of God; Self-Righteousness Confounded; Destructive Conflagration n New York - 30,000,000 in Property Destroyed; Design in Creation; A Shaker's Meeting; A Melancholy Case [of Death by Partialism]; Message from President Andrew Jackson [French Spoliation Claims]; First and Early Settlement of the Earth; The First American Edition of the Bible; Dreadful Steamboat Disaster; Massacre of 112 men by the Seminole Indians under Major Dade; Fortune Telling; Indian Hostilities [Ongoing, Extensive]; Eccentricities of a Madman; The Millennium; etc. 

The whole quite worn and rubbed, weak at points with some staining. But complete and rather nicely preserved all things considered.