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the influence of that exalted benevolence and good will to men, (which our holy profession re-quires,) anything remains for us to do to pro-mote their welfare, their religious instruction, knowledge of agriculture, and the useful me-chanic arts. A solemnity and uniting calm prevailing over the meeting, the further consid-eration of the subject was referred to another meeting, when the condition of the distressed Indian natives being again revived, the senti-ments of many brethren expressed, and a pre-vailing sympathy felt, it appears to be the united sense of this meeting, that it be recommended to our Quarterly and Monthly Meetings to take this concern into serious consideration, and open subscriptions among our members for their relief and the encouragement of school education, hus-bandry, and the mechanic arts, amongst that people. As it appears their situation demands immediate attention, we hope a spirit of liber-ality will be manifested;* * This call of Baltimore Yearly Meeting upon its members was promptly met. But the sums of money, thus collected, do not appear to have been often used to defray the travelling expenses of the Friends appointed by the Indian Committee to visit the tribes North-west of the river Ohio. Those who accepted such commissions prepared their own out-fit and defrayed their own charges, except in one, two, or at the most, three instances, where such an expenditure would have been oppresive to the indi-viduals concerned, on which occasions the necessary funds were supplied by the committee. and those who find