November 26, 1747

1747 November 26 (Thursday).  was not able to finish my intended Discourse for the General Thanksgiving, which was on this Day, but was oblig’d to take a sermon I preach’d heretofore.  It was on Lev. 3.1 but made several alterations and large Additions.  O that God would be pleas’d to accept the Sacrifice of Praise presented throughout this province to Day! and grant us Grace to improve Divine Benefits and Mercys to the Glory of the Great Bestower.  In the Evening I had Opportunity to converse with our Two Strangers.  Shew’d ‘em Dr. Cotton Mather’s Joyful Sound reaching to both the Indies; containing also an account of the Mission to Malabar, and Dr. Mathers Literary Correspondence with the Missionarys.[1]  This Book I presented to the Mission to the Mohawks.

[1]India Christiana. A Discourse, Delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel among the American Indians (Boston, 1721).