Quincy Sunday 22d. August
1847.
22— VI.
- Smith
- Adams Elizabeth. C.
- Adams. Joseph. H.
- Adams. Isaac. Hull.
- Gluck— John B.
- Adams. Charles. F
- Adams. M
rs. C. F.
I had a restless and almost sleepless night. Mr. Amos Smith Colleague
of Dr.
Francis Parkman, as Minister of the new North Church
Hanover Street Boston preached by Exchange with Mr. Lunt—
morning text was from Matthew 10,31. “Ye are of more value than many
Sparrows.” and the object of the Discourse was, to expatiate upon the
value of man considered in the light of appreciath property 153a subject somewhat singular, and novel in its character
Mr. Smith dined with us and his
afternoon Discourse was from Hebrews 12.2. “Looking unto Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith.” Returning from Meeting in the
afternoon, in
the
evening I found Mr. De
Grand here from Boston. who took Tea with us, and remained
part of the Evening here— My Son
and his wife, Elizabeth C. Adams, and her brothers
Joseph, and Hull, with Mr. Glück, were also here
as Evening visitors. I visited this morning the Office Room, in the Farm
house, where the Library, given by my
Father, to the Town of Quincy is still deposited though to
be soon transferred to the new Town House and I borrowed, several
Volumes, of the Work by Dupuis,
entitled, Origine de tous Les Cultes, ou Religion Universelle, par
Dupuis Citoyen François, published at Paris, L’An III. De La République,
Une et Indivisible. with the motto Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité— not one
person in ten thousand, in France at this day, knows, that this was in
the year 1795, when among the Revolutions of the time, when the
Christian Calendar had been abolished by the National Convention of
France, and the epoque of the French Republic had been substituted in
the stead of the Christian era— The Era, of the Republic one and
indivisible, was very soon exchanged, for that of the Empire, and the
Christian Era was restored in 1804, ten years before the restoration of
the monarchy— There are some written notes, by my Father, to the Preface
and first pages of Dupuis. I have taken the Book out with the purpose of
reading it through.
