August 24, 1746

1746 August 24 (Sunday).  Sacrament. I preach’d a.m. on Luke 24.46.  P.M. on Habac. 3.17.18. Mr. Benjamin Rugg of Northfield din’d with us.  Captain Fay absent from Dinner. P.M. Mrs. Whitney cry’d out in the middst of the sermon. I pray’d her to be as compos’d as possible; and she was not long a Disturbance.  At the Evening I was at the Funeral of a Child of Mr. Cook (his Lydia) which dy’d of the Fever and Flux. This Distemper begins to Spread among us; one of Mr. Barns’s Children also is Dead.  The Lord prepare His People for His holy Will!