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Mary Winston, Oregon City; also one dollar for Mrs. Rebecca Fanno, Portland, for the Mothers' Journal and Family Visitant and charge the same to my account. Will you see that this is promptly paid, as they wish to have their for Mrs.
Mothers' Journal continued. Received Feb. 26.
Oregon Rev. Benjamin M. Sec.
Am.
New
York.
Cor.
City,
O. Ten, Feb. 8th, 1855.
Hill,
Bap.
Home
Mission Society, Nassau
St.,
Dear Brother: take
I
this
opportunity
to
you a few
write
lines
on
And
matters first, our good people in Portland effort to build a house for public an about are making in general.
360 and today the ladies of that place make a dinner worship, as the first effort in furtherance of that important work. As they commence the work in feasting, I hope they will complete it
in praying.
The church
in
Oregon City have been employ-
ing a temporary supply, or rather reciving it, since I left their service last June, but are making an effort to secure
man in Oregon, if they can, and ask the Home Missionary Society to aid them in his support, as they feel that there is great uncertainty in obtaining a man soon from the labors of a
Oh, that the Lord would raise up faithful laborers We are in perishing and send a few to our Pacific borders need of faithful pastoral labors throughout our churches. We must pray and try to raise up ministers in Oregon. I wish we had a well endowed school manned with two or three good pious professors, to which we could direct our young men who desire to serve God with singleness of heart. But
the States.
!
money
is
now
scarce,
though
this
is
not half so alarming as
the fact that so few of our brethren take a comprehensive must educate view of our wants and the true remedy. j nrnHEn
We
-
,
360 The building was not actually begun until 1861. Ore.,
1: 140.
Mattoon, Bap. An. of
