Mr.Alison read the service, and she was buried beside her old friend of fifty years--poor Mrs.Macdonald.
1844: "Christmas day morning, Communion 78, in all 404; the church so full.

I preached an old but a good sermon." He has a Christmas dinner of a few friends, but not much Christmas spirit, he says.

In 1845, January 12, the journal notices--"I preached my liturgy sermon, and apparently with much success." Some of his congregation had spoken of it as worthy to be printed.

He saw a good deal of company in his own house, whom I do not think it necessary to particularise, though they were generally of distinction for talent or rank, or both together.

He heard C.Kemble read Henry VIII., which "I did much enjoy.Will.Shakspeare when most known is most admired." On 19th January he preached a sermon, but his note upon it is not like the last.