Philadelphia [undecipherable] April 10 [undecipherable] Sir I thank you for an ingenious sermon from a well chosen text on the death of my [undecipherable], which I received with your letter of the [undecipherable] of March I have read with pleasure. I am happy that my frail endeavors to [undecipherable] the religion of my Country have met your approbation. The detestable [undecipherable: probable reading "pains"] that have been taken to promulgate the age of reason & other publications as pernicious in this Country have not answered their end. The designs of mischief have been disappointed & as far as my observation has extended the [undecipherable] has shewn [undecipherable] great & that it will prevail I wish you, Sir, as an able champion for it, all the success which you can possibly wish for yourself. With much respect [Rev. James [undecipherable: probable reading "Kemp"] Maryland] I am Sir your obliged & most obedient servant The enclosed resolution of the Senate of the 9^th of this month is referred by the President of the United States to the Secretary of War, who is requested to report to the President, to be laid before the Senate, conformably to their request as early as possible. April 10 1800