SW_HJ1798_030

2nd Letter from the Committee received 6 mo. 24th Philadelphia 4th mo. 20th 1799 Dear Friends, Your letter of 1st mo. 23rd was received and read in the Committee for Indian affairs at their meeting Last month, its General contents affording satisfaction a renewal of that general sympathy was felt which frequently accompanies our minds on your behalf, secluded as you are from the Society you have been accustomed to: yet where an evidence attends the mind that we are in our proper allotments in obedience to him who has a right to our Services in such situations and exercises of duty as He is pleased to manifest, those things which would otherwise be very trying and Irksome are made easy – your intimation of a prospect that one of you might during the winter season profitably reside at the Lower Village to instruct the Children in School Learning has claimed our serious deliberation, and we