The effect of the yearly and quarterly meetings’ suggestions was the appointment of Samuel Briggs, William Lawrence, Jacob Jones, John Robeson, Samuel Richards, and Daniel Maule to attend to the affairs of education, “as may be opened in the wisdom of truth.”[730] This last may, to our modern way of thinking, suggest rather a blind guidance, but not so to the old time Friends. The report to the quarterly meeting in 1779 does not suggest that any progress has been made, as was desired, save in respect to the masters employed in the schools. ... to attend the ensuing quarterly meeting at Philadelphia, and report, that the ... answers are to be transmitted as nearly our state. That some care has been taken to advise such negroes who have been restored to freedom. That the proposals respecting schools have been under consideration and some essays made by employing masters who are Friends. That small progress has been made as yet in laboring for the pious education of the youth.[731] [Sidenote: Preparatives visited] [Sidenote: The demands of the yearly meeting] The next step, as reported in 1781, was the appointment of Friends to attend each of the preparative meetings and to do all possible “to spread the concern” of schools and excite an attention thereunto. No visits were as yet made to individual families, and the general feeling of the meeting appeared to be that not much progress had been made.[732] When reading these reports of the monthly meetings it is well to keep in mind the chief things which the yearly meeting had desired, (1) _the establishment of permanent school funds_, (2) _employment of Friends as teachers_, (3) _houses and permanent lands, gardens and so forth to be provided for the accommodation of the masters_, etc. With this in mind it is easy to see that the report of the meetings might be rather faltering even though they were in some manner supplied with the benefits of education. In 1781 the quarterly meeting advised those still unsuccessful in their attempts to meet the set standards “should be animated and encouraged to give weighty attention to this important matter.”[733] The only success achieved by Radnor, according to their own report, was in the employment of Friends for school masters.[734] In 1786, The important subjects ... relative to schools engages in some degree the minds of Friends here but have little further to mention at present saving that the teachers employed in several schools appear to be those in religious profession with Friends.[735] [Sidenote: Purchase of ground proposed]