. History of the First church in Dunstable-Nashua, , and of later churches there. New Light, but he was a Congre-gationalist still. Whitefield was a Methodist, it is true;but he was a Calvinistic Methodist, and did not concernhimself with the forms of church government. He simplysought to infuse the spirit of the living Christ into theexisting forms. There had been petty dissensions in thechurch itself, but no schismatics had gone out from theold church to form other churches maintaining peculiarand contrary views. As time passed on, and the population increased, andnew attractions drew st
. History of the First church in Dunstable-Nashua, , and of later churches there. New Light, but he was a Congre-gationalist still. Whitefield was a Methodist, it is true;but he was a Calvinistic Methodist, and did not concernhimself with the forms of church government. He simplysought to infuse the spirit of the living Christ into theexisting forms. There had been petty dissensions in thechurch itself, but no schismatics had gone out from theold church to form other churches maintaining peculiarand contrary views. As time passed on, and the population increased, andnew attractions drew strangers into town, it was to beexpected that adherents to other forms of faith and prac-tice would be found scattered here and there in the grow-ing village. The doctrine of universal salvation, so radicallyopposed to one of the leading doctrines of the Evangelicalfaith, was introduced into the country during the eighteenthcentury by the famous John Murray. His liberal teach-ings had been promulgated in New Hampshire in a fewlocalities as early as 1781. In that year a Universalist. The Universalists. 55 church was formed in Portsmouth. The bold and ableadvocacy of the fascinating doctrine resulted in the or-ganization of the first Universalist society in Nashua,Jan. 27, 1818, which became the first to encroach upon thedomain of the original ecclesiastics of the village. Twenty-eight members constituted the society. Only two of themare now living, Gen. Israel Hunt and Hon. John M. father was the leading mover in the new Universalists in both the Dunstables united in theservices which were held in either place as conveniencedictated. The leading Universalist divines — Hosea Bal-lou, Thomas Whittemore, Paul Dean, and Otis Skinner —preached for them in schoolhouses and barns. more than once spent some of his youthful strengthin tearing off the boards from some schoolhouse whichhad been nailed up against the heretics. The followingyear it seeme
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