Morning cold and clear. I went to Meeting all day, and heard in the 417morning a Sermon from Mr. Frothingham which my own personal suffering during the morning totally prevented me from listening to. In the Afternoon I heard Dr. Follen preach from a portion of the Sermon on the Mount. “Blessed are the pure in heart &ca.” He did not handle it with the ability such a Sermon requires. He is a German and I cannot bear to see a German undertaking to talk to Americans in their own language. And when he takes the sublimest part of the New Testament to talk upon, he tries his abilities in a strong light. His Sermon in other respects, was very good. It would have done very well with a hundred other Texts or with none at all.

Returned home and finished my Letter to my father with the Copying.1 Evening quiet. Read Buffon’s Theory of the Earth which amused me, and also finished the first Volume of the Latin Grammar and two Numbers of the Tatler.