Fine clear day. Morning passed upon coins excepting a portion spent with my Wife who appears now gradually on the recovery. Attended divine Service and heard N. Hall Jr. preach in the morning from Acts 3. 6. “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee.” A good sermon upon the cultivation of the kindly affections as 6superior to the possession of wealth. Afternoon. 2 Peter 3. 18. “Grow in grace.” Moral culture. Mr. Hall is evidently a sincere and an earnest preacher and thus he gives to his words additional force.1

Walk after both services with one or the other of my children. Read a Sermon of Buckminster’s, John 6. 12. “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.” A Sermon upon the profits of economy or frugality being a charity lecture written about at the time of the commercial restrictions here. Very good though not so remarkable as some of the others. Copied part of the letter to my father and went in the evening to see Mr. Brooks. Nobody there. Home at ten.