Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams Volume 2

Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams Volume 2 By Abigail Adams The records of Harvard University, the child and darling of Puritan affections, show that of all the presiding officers, during the century and a half of colonial days, but two were laymen, and not ministers of the prevailing denomination; and that of all who in the early times availed themselves of such advantages as this institution could then offer, nearly half the number did so for the sake of devoting themselves to the service of the gospel.