Hosea Ballou was born at Richmond, New Hampshire, on April 30, 1771. Self-educated from youth, he began preaching around the age of twenty-one. He served as a minister at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, starting in 1807, moved to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1815, and settled in Boston in 1817, where he became an influential leader in the Universalist movement until his death in 1852. Ballou contributed 199 original hymns to Universalist Hymns composed by different Authors (1808), and edited subsequent collections in 1821 and 1837. His most famous Second Advent hymn, "When God descends with men to dwell," extended beyond Universalist circles into wider congregational use.
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