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I feel quite anxious to know how your school opens & how you are getting along. I cannot but hope that you will not regret sparing Sarah. I am impatient to know how Sister Achsah feels and succeeds in pleasing your people & scholars. I hope to receive your letter to night. I greatly desire that you may meet with such success as you need to accomplish your designs. They are laudable & noble, & it will give me great pleasure, if I should ever see them realized. I feel confident that Sister will find a brother in you. If she meets with trials I know you will advise, encourage, counsel & assist her. She is young & needs encouragement. See? she find it in you. Speak words of encouragement often. For every word you speak, for every act you perform for her benefit, you shall have a new diamond set in the crown of respect I hold for you. It was hard for me to part with her so soon. But my judgement approved the cours adopted, and should it prove to have been wrong, I can only regret. So far as we, her, am concerned, we are filled with the finest hopes that all will rejoice in the arrangements made. Sarah's school will reach nearly 50, & perhaps more. Helen has gone in to take the charge of a primary ohpointment of about 16 or 18 little scholars, with which she gets along gloriously. She will make a splendid teacher if she has proper opportunity. She is throwing her whole soul into it. I assist - [Raymond?] in the afternoon. Two or three classes are given into the hands of young men. So you see all goes swimmingly. But I have not