Article: Adin Ballou. Practical Christianity: an Epitome of Practical Christian Socialism.(Book Review)

Ed. and arr. Lynn Gordon Hughes. Providence: Blackstone Editions, 2002. 267 pp. $20.00 (paper).

THE GRAVES OF ADIN BALLOU (1803-1890) and his son, Adin Augustus Ballou, stand close by one another in Hopedale, Massachusetts, the Christian socialist community founded in 1842 by the elder Ballou and his associates. It is a remarkable place, still bearing the mark of its utopian origins. Though squarely rooted in the modern mechanical age, Hopedale--with its mix of agriculture and small-scale manufacturing--was modeled on the harmonious congregational socialism of the primitive Christian Church described in the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, thus creating the ...

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