(seq. 31)

Rochester July 16 - 1848

Dear Daughter

Yours of the 12 Inst by
Mr Davis was handed us the next day
after he left Canajoharie. He came
up and brot it himself. We regret
to learn that sickness & death are giving
our Friends in that vicinity such an
amount of trouble & sorrow --
Death being one of natures grand operators
to carry on the depopulation of the Earth
will forever be casting his darts in a
way to bring Grief to our hearts untill
we are educated to view all things
relating to death & even that itself in
a very diferent light from what we
now do -- I see no good reason why we
should be so deeply afflicted about that
which we can not help -- Were we to be
so trained as to consider nothing a source of
trouble to the mind but the neglect of doing all
in our power to relieve the miseries of the affli-
cted and improve in every way posible the
condition of man -- Then were we called to
mourn the cause of such call would be at
our controll - and the removall of which
would not only dry up our tears but send
joy & hapiness to the destitute millions
who are now suffering under tortures of
every description heaped upon them by what
is termed the more Christian & enlightened part
of community -- Farmington yearly meeting at
their last getting together divided that
portion of its members who take the liberty of holding