bMS 414
Adams, John Greenleaf. Papers, 1831-1897.
Summary Information:
- Call Number: bMS 414
- Title: Adams, John Greenleaf. Papers, 1831-1897.
- Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
- Quantity: 1 box
Administrative Information:
- Acquisition Information: Gift of the Universalist Historical Society, 1976.
- Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
Biographical Information:
John Greenleaf Adams (1810-1887) was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He married twice during his life and had one daughter and two sons. His academic pursuits brought him as far as a doctorate in divinity. He was ordained in 1833 in Rumney, New Hampshire, and was also pastor at Claremont, New Hampshire; Providence, Rhode Island; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Malden, Worcester, and Lowell, Massachusetts. He edited the New Hampshire publication Star in the East, and Massachusetts publications such as the Gospel Teacher; Myrtle; and the Sunday School Helper. Adams published a total of 20 books and pamphlets during his life, including Our Day and Fountain. He also contributed to Hymns for Christian Devotion.
Scope and Content:
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series I. Addresses and Sermons by date
- Series II. Sermons, undated
- Series III. Writings and correspondence
- Series IV. Biographical
Container List:
Series I. Addresses and Sermons by date
- bMS 414/1 (1) First sermon, written in West Rumney, N.H., 1831.
- bMS 414/1 (2) First funeral sermon, 1833.
- bMS 414/1 (3) First Fourth of July oration, Wentworth, N.H., 1833
- bMS 414/1 (4) What Have We to Do with Slavery? June 1, 1854. Given before the Universalist General Reform Association.
- bMS 414/1 (5) Christian Fidelity. September 16, 1863. Delivered to the United States Convention of Universalists.
- bMS 414/1 (6) Methods of Organizing Work in the Church. December 2, 1868.
- bMS 414/1 (7) The Heaven Opened by Christianity to Man. June 1, 1873.
- bMS 414/1 (8) Some Lessons of the Women's Temperance Movement. March 8, 1874.
- bMS 414/1 (9) Thanksgiving Discourse. November 26, 1874. (2 copies from different newspapers.)
- bMS 414/1 (10) Heaven Vindicated. June 1875.
- bMS 414/1 (11) Modern Adventism. 1875.
- bMS 414/1 (12) Giving. January 5, 1879.
- bMS 414/1 (13) A Christian Gone to Her Rest. (For Mrs. E. H. Cobb, wife of Sylvanus Cobb.) May 5, 1880.
- bMS 414/1 (14) God a Sun and Shield. 1881.
- bMS 414/1 (15) Fifty Years in the Ministry. January 29, 1882.
- bMS 414/1 (16) Dedication Sermon. May 25, 1884. (For the re-opening of the Universalist church in West Rumney, N.H.)
- bMS 414/1 (17) Rev. Henry Jewell - The Last Sad Rites. Address by Adams. January 15, 1885.
- bMS 414/1 (18) The Spirit's Voice to the Church. April 1885.
Series II. Sermons, undated
- bMS 414/1 (19) Christian Fervency.
- bMS 414/1 (20) The Gospel for All the World.
- bMS 414/1 (21) The Great Conflict and Final Victory of Christianity.
- bMS 414/1 (22) The Name 'Universalist'.
- bMS 414/1 (23) Objects and Claims of the Sabbath School.
- bMS 414/1 (24) The Old Testament in the Sabbath School.
- bMS 414/1 (25) Receiving God's Grace in Vain.
- bMS 414/1 (26) The Safety of Christian Principle.
Series III. Writings and correspondence
- bMS 414/1 (27) Correspondence, 1835-1891. Correspondents are: A. C. Thomas, Thomas Thayer, Lucius Paige, Moses Ballou, W. H. Ryder, J. W. Hanson, M. Goddard. File also contains some correspondence written after Adams's death.
- bMS 414/1 (28) Annual Report by Adams as Corresponding Secretary of the Universalist General Reform Association, Boston, May 26, 1859.
- bMS 414/1 (29) Mammoth Cave. 1873.
- bMS 414/1 (30) Review of Hymns for Christian Devotion (1848) by Hosea Ballou.
Series IV. Biographical
- bMS 414/1 (31) Outlines of Life till Twenty-Two, autobiography.
- bMS 414/1 (32) License to preach, 1832.
- bMS 414/1 (33) Commission as Chaplain, 1837.
- bMS 414/1 (34) Sermons and notes of death of Adams in newspapers.
- bMS 414/1 (35) Photographs of Adams.
- bMS 414/1 (36) Photograph of Mrs. J. G. Adams.