Nor can we fail to notice that each of those virtues retained its relative power over him, throughout his long and eventful life.

He was brought into the church and baptized on the day after that on which he was born.
John Quincy Adams, in one of his letters, thus mentions the circumstances of his baptism: "The house at Mount Wollaston has a peculiar interest to me, as the dwelling of my great-grandfather, whose name I bear.

The incident which gave rise to this circumstance is not without its moral to my heart.

He was dying, when I was baptized; and his daughter, my grandmother, present at my birth, requested that I might receive his name.

The fact, recorded by my father at the time, has connected with that portion of my name, a charm of mingled sensibility and devotion.