Let young ministers lay this fact to heart.

It was not by trick or happy luck, or by pyrotechnics of rhetoric that Dr.Adams won and kept his position in the forefront of metropolitan preachers.

The "dead line of fifty" was not to be found on his intellectual atlas.

One of the last talks with him that I now recall was on an early morning in Congress Park, Saratoga.

He had a pocket Testament in his hand, and he said to me, "I find myself reading more and more the old books of my youth; I am enjoying just now Virgil's Eclogues, but nothing is so dear to me as my Greek Testament." All of Dr.Adams' finest efforts were thoroughly prepared and committed to memory.