 After he graduated in 1924, he went on to the Harvard Divinity School to become a Unitarian minister.In his education, he moved from "premillenarian fundamentalism" to "scientific humanism" and then to liberal Christianity.After graduation from Harvard, Adams served as minister of the Second Church, Unitarian in Salem, Massachusetts, from 1927 to 1934, and the First Unitarian Society in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, from 1934 to 1935.