{"product_id":"1836-trumpet-universalist-mag","title":"1836 CHRISTIAN UNIVERSALIST MAG. Eternal Conscious Torment Leads to Insanity - Lemuel Haynes","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA very rare assemblage of the pro-revival, Christian Universalist periodical edited by Thomas Whittemore (1800–1861), considered the most influential Universalist editor of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAfter the death of his father, he came under the influence of the signifcant Universalist preacher Hosea Ballou, converted, and was ordained into the ministry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOn the publishing front, in 1828, without prior notice to Ballou — who at first resented the action — Whittemore and Russell Streeter established the successor newspaper to Ballou's Universalist Magazine, purchasing the subscription list from the publisher Henry Bowen. Streeter withdrew after a few months, and Whittemore owned and edited it until illness forced him to surrender it shortly before his death. Over the years, the Trumpet absorbed a number of failing Universalist periodicals and gained their subscription lists,  and by 1836 it had 5,000 subscribers, making it consistently the most important Universalist publication before the Civil War. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe paper was known for its combative style. Its columns were filled with controversy, both internal to the Universalist denomination and externally, with Whittemore constantly on the offensive against \"orthodoxy.\" Throughout the periodical, revivalism which used eternal conscious torment rather than the love of Jesus as its lever of power and influence, is denounced theologically and often through narratives of people driven insane or to suicide through the teaching. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTheologically, Whittemore and Ballou held the view of ultra-universalism — believing that punishment in the afterlife did not exist — and were opposed to universal restorationism, which claimed that it did. The Trumpet was the primary vehicle for defending and spreading this theology across the denomination. Whittemore also contributed to Universalist historiography by identifying precedents for Universalist beliefs in earlier Christianity, and co-founded the Universalist Historical Society in 1834, with his histories proving influential in leading many readers to regard the Christians of the first centuries as Universalists. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTaken together, Whittemore and the Trumpet were central pillars of the Universalist movement in America for over three decades, shaping its theology, defending it against critics, documenting its history, and connecting its scattered congregations through a common press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe volume contains nearly two complete years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhittemore, Thomas [Ed.]. Trumpet and Universalist Magazine. No's 1-52 for June 1836 through June 1837. Boston. 1836\/37. 208pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eContents include: The 20th Chapter of Revelation; Two More Victims of Partialism [People who committed suicide under despair regarding conversion \/ hell]; History of Universalism; Discourse at the Funeral of Levi Ballou by Hosea Ballou; Is Evil Eternal; Endless Misery Becoming Unfashionable; The Unchristian Conduct of the Methodists; Patrick Henry's Religious Views; Unitarianism Inadequate to Man's Wants; The Doctrine of Probation; Means of Conversion to Orthodoxy; Universalist Papers in the West; Iniquity Purged; How to Promote Revivals; False Impressions of Universalists Corrected; Effects of Religions Enthusiasm [Depression and Suicide]; The Andover Creedl; Revivals and the Connecticut General Associatiob; Death the Gate of Glory; Will All Men be Saved?; Universalism Vs. Orthodoxy; Superfluous Anxiety; The Atonement; Springfield Slander; The Alpha and the Omega; Temperance and Sectarianism in Nashua; The Destruction of the Wicked; Abner Kneeland at Geneva; Who Compose the Body of Christ?; The Origin of Evil; Anxiety Concerning the Future; Eternal Damnation; Revival at Lowell; Christ Victorious; Dr. Beecher's Falsehood; Another Victim [Suicide] added to the List; To Believers in Endless Misery; Horrid Sentiments; Five Contradictory Points of Calvinism; The Nature of Salvation; The Decline of Methodism; The Design of God; God All and All; Evils of False Doctrine; The Love of God and its Teachings; Demoralizing Influence of Atheism; Another Case of Clerical Wickeness; Beware of Imposters; If Universalism is True, why Preach?; The Terror of the Lord; Ignorance of [the true nature] of Universalism; Punishment; Reprobation; Reflections in the Cell of a Murderer; Punishment and Salvation; Executions; The Design of Punishment; Clerical Wickedness [of Charles Grandison Finney, etc.]; The Importance of Correct Views of God; The Mission of Christ; The Power of Truth; Opposition of the Methodists; Is God Divided Against Himself [wills that all men be saved]; Destruction of the Soul and Body in Gehenna; Unquenchable Fire; Universalism Licentious; Definition of \"Orthodoxy;\" Orthodox Zeal; The Extent and Progress of Divine Grace; Nothing Contingent with God; [Another] Victim of Fanaticism; Hell; The Transcendent Worth of Universalism; Information wanted from the Partialist; Sectarian Intolerance; A Blunder of Thomas Paine; The Necessity of Holiness; A Plea in Favor of Mercy; The Social Happiness of Heaven; Opposition to the Gospel; Sectarian Wrath and Madness; Religious Excitements not Profitable; The Anger and Favor of God; Free Agency; Prayers for the Heathen; Strong Drink a Curse; etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Bound with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhittemore, Thomas [Ed.] \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTrumpet and Universalist Magazine. No's 1-48 for June 1837 through June May. Boston. 1837\/38. 192pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: The Power of Love; Salvation for the Lost; God is Love; Capital Punishment; Mobs and Riots; More Righteous than God; Who then can be Saved?; Rev J Murray vs. Modern Restorationism; Safety of Universalism; The Resurrection a Cause of Joy; The Gospel; God's Will; Orthodox Toleration; Reprobation; Burchardism in Poughkeepsie [Jedidiah Burchard, radical revivalist]; The Sin against the Holy Ghost; Rev. Mr. Noyes' Tract Against Universalism; Without Charity we are Nothing; The Inconsistency of Temperance Men; A Compliment to Universalism; Hope a Moral Purifier; Influence of Endless Misery; Calvinistic Purgatory; Methodistism, Or, the Day of Judgment and Future Punishment; Perfection; Dr. Beecher Again; Wresting the Scriptures; Sectarian Madness; Glorious Promises; Camp Meetings; Does God Order Murder? Hell Fire; Infant Damnation; Christ the Image of God; Bishop King's Journey to the West; An Attack Repelled; Rev. D. Pickering's Views of Punishment; Conduct of a Methodist Preacher; Unitarianism Insufficient; The Trumpet and Hard Times; Dancing; Opposition to Universalism; The Beauty of the Lord; Sudden Conversions; The Damnation of Hell; Witchcraft and Revivals; Inhuman Conduct of Christians; Orthodox set aside the Threatenings; The Fear of Endless Punishment; Recantations; Extempore Preaching; The Maniac [driven insane by the contemplation of eternal conscious torment]; The Compassion of Jesus; The Goodness and Mercy of God; The Origin of Sin; Dying in the Act of Transgression [the fear of the Methodist]; Tholuck and Universalism; To Believers in Endless Misery; Univeralists in Favor of Revivals; Preachers of Damnation Reproved; God's Overthrow of Evil; Marks of False Miracles; Future Existence [Conditional Immortality]; A Reply to Joel Hawes' Tract; Predestination; Capital Punishment; The Fatherly Character of God; Fiery Zeal; Hades; Revivals of Religion; Revival Fever at Mr. Stow's Church in Boston; etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Special Note: Extensive review of a sermon by Lemuel Haynes on the text, \"Thou shalt not surely die\" and Haynes' interaction with Hosea Ballou and Universalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is also a fascinating four page manuscript laid in [obscuring two pages of text], as follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The candidate brought before the venerable in presence of the Brothers, placed a barrel marked \"Crooked Whiskey.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenerable - Son of Adan, place your index finger at the corner of the right eye; place the palm of the left hand at the back of the neck; and repeat after me as follows: The Brothers will speak. Let us have peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI - your name - Zedekiah V. Vanaldenburgh, do solemnly swear, declare and say, that I am not, nor will I ever become, a member of affiliate in any way with the indescribable returning board, so long as the figure 8 shadows the 7. And I furthermore swear, by the color of Cronin's nose, that I will intimidate my mother in law in every way possible; and I will bulldoze all of my wife's relatives that will visit me for the purpose of bumming on my sympathy. And if I ever fail to protect my orphans or widowed wife, may my brain become paralyzed with the epozootic [epizootic?], and my stomach gnawed with teh pangs of dyspepsia; may I be seized with the hydrophobia, and suffer all the anguish and torments of the Cerebo Spinal Menengitis possible for a man to suffer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI further promise to always assist a widow when in distress, so long as it doe snot affect my pecuniary circumstances. I further promise, with the aid and assistance of this sublime organization, to always take my whiskey straight. (To be answered by the brothers, \"And don't you forget it.\") so long as it does not conflict with the beautiful teachings of the Electorial Commissioners. (To nbe answered by the brothers, \"You can't go behind the returns.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOh! most gracious master, give me the brain of Abe Hewett, the cunning of Zach Chabndler, the principle of J. Madison Wells, the strength of cours eand patriotism of the invinciple Cronin, who turned his beautiful nose towards the rising sun, as he journeyed across the dreary saleratus deserts \u0026amp; moving towards the seat of honesty, charity and reform, to carry out the principles of his four pilgrim fathers, so that I shall become a good brother, a faithful friend, and exempliary son-in-law. So help me to another glass of Government Whiskey, in a blue Glass Goblet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrother Valandenburgh - you have become initiated into this powerful order, and I hail you as a member. I will now proceed to give you the grip, sign, and countersign. The grip and sign is given in this manner. Grasp for the candidates throat, and strike between his eyes. Its significance, \"may I be choked to death and have my two eyes knocked into one if I ever go back on the returns.\" You are placed before a keg marked \"Crooked Whiskey,\" which is symbolic of our strength. Its teachings are fearful if you carry them out. It helps increase our orphans and widows. The placing of the index finger at the corner of the right eye denotes, \"do you see everything green\" when asked if you love your mother-in-law. The palm of the hand at the back of the neck denotes that \"may I hope never to see the back of my neck again,\" if I ever go back on a pretty widow in distress. I will now consign you to our most able numbskull of a guide, who will take you before the great Mogul, who will put you through a **** of sprouts and I hope your deportment will be such that you will live through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarewell sweet eyes - keep a stiff upper lip for the Spirit of John D. Lee [John Doyle Lee - Mormon leader convicted of mass murder], our great prototype, will watch over you gentelely. But look out for Brigham Young.\" [p.16, 17]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFair. 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