Pleasant day. Usual exercises. Evening at the Mansion.

I have not the opportunity for so much miscellaneous reading on this day of the week now as formerly. My time is taken up for an hour with my daughter and then I attend divine service.

Mr. Lunt preached in the morning from Matthew 28. 8. “And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy.” I know not why but this discourse did not interest me as much as usual partly I suppose in itself and partly because I had heard it before. Mr. Whitney in the afternoon from John 16. 22.28 “And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice and your joy no man taketh from you,” &ca. I could not gather much of the discourse from Mr. Whitney’s failing voice.1 He has now passed service in the pulpit.

Read a discourse being the first one in the collection of Sermons called The English Preacher, the fifth volume, by Tillotson. Joshua 24. 15. “If it seems evil unto you to serve the Lord, chuse you this day 295whom you will serve.” Service of the Lord or a religious life recommended.

I began today Herschel’s Treatise on Astronomy2 which I desire to know something of. But my desire for knowledge is so multifarious it makes me a tiro in all. Evening at my father’s.