A very warm day having however at noon a Slight easterly breeze which checked the excessive heat. Occupied some time in copying which I still endeavour to continue.

Dr. Frothingham came out shortly before service and I attended him to the building. He preached in the morning from Psalms 22. 29. “And none can keep alive his own soul.” A sermon upon the duty of prudence and selfpreservation occasioned by the late disasters at sea and the drowning of a little boy in his parish.1 The merit of his discourses to me is in the nice moral discrimination which he endeavours, a merit he rarely can get much credit for, as the tendencies of men are ever to general conclusion. Afternoon from 2 Kings 5. 25. “And Elisha said unto him, whence comest thou, Gehasi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.” The prevailing tendency to conceal the truth by covering it with a shield of obscurity. A great deal of ingenious thought here, but I lost my nap by being obliged to attend him after dinner and was drowsy.

He returned and took tea before his departure for town with two of his boys who accompanied him. Evening my Wife and I went down to see Col. and Mrs. Quincy, who were not at home, but one of his sisters and T. K. Davis’ grandmother were there as was Price Greenleaf a visitor. We returned shortly after nine, I walking—a most glorious evening.

Read a sermon of Mr. Buckminster’s. Philippians 4. 3. “I entreat thee—help those women, which laboured with me in the gospel, whose names are in the book of life.” This appears to have been a discourse delivered before a society of females and is a review of the historical record of the benevolent of the sex. I do not think it in the author’s best manner, for it betrays the confined extent of his observation, but yet it has some of his merits too.