Hull, Moses

HULL

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 10/2/2007 at 07:18:49

Jackson Sentinel
January 24, 1907

DEATH OF MOSES HULL
The Eminent Spiritualist Passes Away at San Jose, California

Many of our people will remember Moses Hull, that leading Spiritualist divine, who resided in Maquoketa for several years and built up quite a strong following of that denomination. He was a great student, a vigorous writer and debater and of strong and active personality. He loved rural and picturesque surroundings and built a brick residence on the hill in the northern suburbs of our city, the house now occupied by Henry Weede. He named the place “Walhalla”, which is defined by Webster as the place of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle. For lack of sufficient financial support he and his family and brother Daniel and family left our city in the latter part of the 80’s.

The following is taken from the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury and Herald of January 13th giving further details:

Moses Hull, who has been delivering a series of lectures at Hale’s Hall, passed away at 10 o’clock Friday evening. He was stricken with paralysis Wednesday morning and the stroke resulted in death Friday. The funeral will be held from the San Jose undertaking parlors Monday at 2:30 p.m.

Moses Hull was born in Walro, Delaware county, Ohio, January 16, 1836. He was heard to say many times, he could not remember when he did not expect to be a minister. When but a child he joined the church and entered into its work with the interest of older people. At the age of 47 he commenced work as an exhorter in this capacity, as a licensed exhorter, for several years. He later became an Adventist and his connection with the Methodist church was severed.

He preached Adventism 12 years, and became, in the meantime, one of the most popular preachers and writers on Adventism in the country. Mr. Hull was a growing man. He was a student and especially along the theological lines he made remarkable research. Naturally he devolved from the doctrines of a physical resurrection and after having parted with some of his best beloved on earth, went into an earnest investigation of Spiritualism. Unbounded evidence was given to him, proving to him beyond a doubt that death did not end all. He was bitterly attacked by the Adventist Church, but was so strongly fortified in his own conclusions that he remained impregnable to every attack. Mr. Hall has labored in the field of Spiritualism upwards of forty years. He has met many of the brightest, most scholarly men of nearly every denomination in the realm of debate. Probably no author on Spiritualism has contributed so largely to the literature of Spiritualism as Mosses Hull. He has written upwards of thirty volumes, treating mostly on Biblical Exegetics. Among the more recent works are “The Encyclopedia of Biblical Spiritualism,” “Our Bible, Who Wrote It, When, How and Where?” Those books contain not less than 500 pages each. Many smaller books, equally interesting have come from his pen. Probably the crowning work of his life was in connection with the Morris Pratt School, Whitewater, Wis. Of which he was one of the founders.

Mr. Hull was accompanied to this city by his wife Mattie E. Hull. She is an author and lecturer. They have worked jointly in behalf of Spiritualism for more than a third of a century. Their special mission to this coast was to acquaint the people with the work of the Morris Pratt School and to interest those of like faith in its behalf.