Morning pleasant. I passed it in reading Grahame, whose first edition I think on the whole has been improved upon. I perceive a complimentary Note to General Jackson’s Protest which amuses me.1 Attended divine service and heard Mr. Frothingham from 1 Timothy 2. 5. “There is one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.” This was mainly designed to consider the nature of the Saviour in connexion with the Lord’s supper and to prove that it is the mediation which constitutes the essence of the rite. In the afternoon, Mr. Pierpont preached.2 Psalms 107. 23.24. “They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters. These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.” A sermon evidently written during his late voyage and filled with nothing but commonplace ideas.

Mr. Walsh went home with me and passed the afternoon and part of the evening and drank tea. Conversation general, but he has a way of introducing allusions to himself in a very delicate manner which make me feel for him much. After he had gone, Mr. Degrand came in just from Quincy. He had seen the family there and brought me a note stating in substance that they would not start until Tuesday. Conversation upon politics. The first returns from Philadelphia are favourable to Mr. Van Buren. I read a sermon of Dr. Barrow Acts 9. 22. “proving that this is the very Christ,” being a laboured examination of the evidence of Christ’s mission.