Snow and drizzle. Exercises as usual.

I follow up my investigations respecting Aaron Burr during my day light hours and write upon the currency in the evening. Attended divine service all day and heard Dr. Frothingham preach from 1 Thessalonians 4. 1. “We beseech you that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.” And from Matthew 25. 13. “Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour wherein the son of man cometh.” I paid rather a languid kind of attention.

A Sermon of John Balguy from Esther 5. 13. “Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King’s gate.” The story of Haman as illustrating the restlessness of human desire. There is something a little extravagant to us in this excess of Haman’s and yet not at all inconsistent with the passions we know to exist in man when left as in Eastern countries entirely unbridled.

Evening at home the first time for several weeks. Writing afterwards but I know not how it is I can by no means satisfy myself.