Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1838-07-01
A cloudy foggy day with much vapour rising from the sea. I passed much time in copying and finished one of the omitted paper books,1 then attended divine Service and heard Mr. Whitney preach from Psalms. “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” He was not interesting. Afternoon, Mr. Lunt Ephesians 3. 17. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.” The meaning of the indwelling of Christ and the force of faith. This was a discourse I had heard before.
Read a sermon of Buckminster’s upon the occasion of a thanksgiving, Deuteronomy 33. 29. “Happy are thou, O, Israel; who is like unto thee.” An enumeration of our advantages as a people, and our duties growing out of them. We had afterwards sundry visitors—Mr. and Mrs. D. Greenleaf, and Mr. Price
For an account of the manuscript scraps and fragments from which JA’s Diary has had to be constructed, see JA, Diary and Autobiography
, 1:xli–xlii. CFA’s word “omitted” may mean omitted from the booklet which in the preceding entry he called “the little Fragment of a Diary.” Doubtless, these are some of the “paper books” he numbered serially 1–31.