Adin ballou biography channel

Adin Ballou came up in a place seemingly filled with Ballous—Cumberland, Rhode Island.

Adin ballou biography channel 6 External links [ edit ]. Alerts In Effect Dismiss. The community of Hopedale, established in March , would become a prosperous commune, and then, a company town in the mid-to-late 19th century. Ariel Ballou Sr.

Adin was the 7th of eight children born to Ariel Ballou (). From Ariel’s first marriage to Lucina Comstock (), Ballou had the following (half) siblings: Rosina, Abigail, Cyrus, Arnold, Sally, and finally Alfred, who was born in That marriage lasted nearly two decades, but Lucina sadly passed away in After Lucina’s passing, Ariel married Elida (also spelled as Edilda) Tower in June of Their son Adin was born in April , and one more child would follow, a brother named Ariel, after his father.

Ariel Ballou Sr. had a farm, sawmill, and cider mill. He was also an investor in woolen mills. He had a comfortably sized home, even with so many children.

Adin ballou biography channel Ballou espoused a number of polarizing religious and social beliefs. Instead, he ministered to thousands of people across the Blackstone Valley, building a following as a controversial but impassioned minister. In , Ballou retired from being the minister in Hopedale. Ballou hoped this community would be the first of many that would change society.

Adin described his father as “an intelligent, upright, enterprising farmer” who “possessed himself, by inheritance and subsequent purchase of over two hundred acres,” in Cumberland and nearby Wrentham, MA.

Father Ariel purportedly “took good care that none of his family should eat the bread of idleness, form dissolute habits, or grow up incompetent to bear their share of life's responsibilities.” Long before Adin’s arrival, Ariel had taken on his share of responsibility by serving as a Captain during the Revolutionary War.

Adin wrote that his father spent part of his “early manhood…as a soldier of the Revolution and met the enemy a few times on the battle field [.]”

Adin Ballou’s father was not a career solider; eventually, he settled into a ministry, and raised his family. Adin summarizes this change as one from bearing “the title of militia Captain” to “that of Deacon [.]” Adin only partially followed in his father’s footsteps.

Too young to serve in the War of , Adin instead went straight to ministry. He spent time in the early s finding his way, trying to get a foothold somewhere, moving between RI, MA, and even NY for a short period.

Biography channel ghost kit Ballou's Christian anarchist and nonresistance ideals in texts like Practical Christianity were passed down from Tolstoy to Mahatma Gandhi , contributing not only to the nonviolent resistance movement in the Russian Revolution led by the Tolstoyans but also Gandhi's early thinkings on the nonviolent theory of praxis and the development of his first ashram , the Tolstoy Farm. Article Talk. In other projects. He and forty-four followers purchased a acre farm along the Mill River.

By February , Adin had returned to the Blackstone Valley, moving between Bellingham, Milford, and Cumberland to minister to others.

In the s, while Captain Ballou was working out the details of his war pension, Adin was struggling with his position on peace. After considerable debate, and personal turmoil, Ballou made a decision in the late s.

He would abide by “the principles of Christ's gospel in the spirit of holy martyrdom.” Living “in awe of its sublime wisdom and goodness” Ballou then “yielded to my highest convictions.

Adin ballou biography channel 7 Spaulding being for once at a loss for words his wife came to the rescue, exclaiming, "Asaph wanted a codfish and I got him one. External links [ edit ]. Contact Us. Baptist Ballous spread out from Providence to other parts of the colony, including Cumberland, where Adin was raised.

I became a Christian Non resistant.”

Ballou’s beliefs put him out of step with many of his “countrymen” living in the United States. His principles were “not in accord with the popular Christianity of Christendom, but I am confident that it is in accord with the Christianity of the New Testament.”

Reflecting on this time in his life, Ballou argued: “If this made me a fanatic in , I am a still greater one in though doubtless a wiser one by disciplinary experience.”

When Adin chose to summarize his father’s service to the country, he recalled that Ariel “used to say he hoped he killed no onethough he knew not the effect of his bullets.” This may have also just been Adin’s selective way to remember his father’s soldiering.

A more extensive record of Ariel’s service record can be found in his attempt to get a pension in the early s. At the age of 74, perhaps out of financial need, Ariel Ballou decided he was owed something for the years he spent apart from his family fighting a war for independence.