REVEREND EZRA FISHER
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can sustain such a man there after supporting the suffering cause at Portland and Oregon City, both of which places are probably in greater need of a minister than Salem. Port-
At Oregon land has some permanent and able supporters. All our towns are is school for the our Territory. City subject to frequent changes, yet they are towns, and will continue to be places of trade from which an influence will be continually going out into the surrounding country and into
A
the whole world.
Sabbaths should mostly be
minister's
town unless he can have
his place filled occasionally effected can be little or by the side of other organized by proxy, churches with a stated Sabbath ministry.
spent in
As
ever yours,
EZRA FISHER.
Received Nov. 25.
Oregon City, Ore. M. To Rev. Benjamin Hill, Cor. Sec.
Dear
Am.
Bapt.
Home
Ter.,
Mission Soc.,
Nov.
New
8th, 1854.
York.
Br. Hill:
This
is
to
inform you that Rev. William F. Boyakin,354
formerly from Carrolton, Illinois, and late of St. Joseph, Missouri, arrived in Portland about the tenth of October with his family. Since that time he has been preaching to I visited Portthe scattered Baptist brethren in that place. and south. Found he west land three weeks since on a tour
was making a favorable impression on the minds of the BapSince tist members and the public; gave them some advice. return Br. Boyakin has preached in this place. He informs me that the Baptist members have invited him to labor with them in Portland for one year and that they have agreed to
my
Mission Society to appoint him as their missionary to Portland for one year with a salary of $800, $200
ask the
Home
354 Rev. W. F. Boyakin helped to organize the Portland Church in May, 1855. In 1856 he moved to Corvallis at the invitation of the church there. Mattoon, Bap. An. of Ore., I:n, 14. Mattoon says he was from Mississippi.
