Cooler day. My child, Louisa is unwell again and for the first time this winter. Though generally healthy, she is delicate and easily put out of order. I am therefore generally anxious about her.

Attended divine Service all day. Heard Mr. Frothingham, from 1 Corinthians 13. 12. “For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” A mistaken version he maintains. The idea as he illustrated is that we now see in a dim speculum as all those in ancient times were, but then, i.e. hereafter, face to face. The afternoon discourse was a better one from Romans 10. 8. “The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is, the word of faith which we preach.” The origin of the moral sentiment, and the modes by which 62unbelievers have attempted to account for it, tradition, the fears of men, priestcraft, law, he finally explains his own opinion which inclines to the existence of an original sense.

Read a Sermon of Barrow upon the duty of Thanksgiving. Ephesians 5. 20 “Giving thanks always for all things unto God.” He divides, 1. The nature of thanksgiving, 2. the meaning of to God, and he gets only so far in this discourse. He is more of a commentator than any Preacher I know. I have often thought this might be a very useful way of preaching and perhaps the original mode of doing so, but it requires a particular style of oratory which is not probably the highest. Among other things in Dr. Barrow I particularly remark the use of language, which is not perfectly pure, either from Latin or Gallicisms. Evening, although it rained there were visitors, Mr. Josiah Bradlee and Mr. P. R. Dalton.