Severely cold. Service all day. Reading and evening to see Mr. Brooks.

The thermometer was near zero this morning. I read some of Milman’s History of the Jews and attended as usual divine service at Chauncy place. But the exercises were interrupted in an unusual manner by an alarm of fire which scattered the congregation. The Stove having been heated overmuch caught the on fire and was burning with great rapidity. After seeing it put out, I returned home.

Afternoon to Mr. Lothrop’s where I heard him preach from John 9. 1465. “I am the light of the world.” Christianity considers man in four relations—as a social, intellectual, physical and moral being, and acts upon him in all.

Read a Sermon by a Mr. Trebeck from Ephesians 4. 26. “Be ye angry and sin not.” A reasonable examination of the real nature of anger, its bad effects and its allowable limits. The evening was taken up by a call at Mr. Brooks’. Nothing material. Miss Harriet Welsh and Mr. Degrand at my house.