1759 March 25 (Sunday). Read Ezra 8 and Act 8. Preached a. and p.m. on Col. 3.3. May God Himself magnifie His Power and Grace through my Weakness and Meanness! Mrs. Dolly Rice and the Widow Sara Smith dined here with us. N.B. Enlarged the Time of Intermission to Two Hours. Sung twice p.m. In the 2d Singing began Ps. 119. Read the Proclamation for the Publick Fast — and mentioned at Fast to be (by divine Leave) at Mr. Joseph Miles’s in Shrewsbury next Wednesday: first Exercise to be at 10 a.m.