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our ministry on the Pacific slope, and I am beginning to think we are more able than willing. But this business must be accomplished by "line upon line." We cannot do this work at once, but we must not cease doing till this is done; then that
we
shall support a pious, intelligent, efficient ministry.
seat of
government
thirty miles farther
is
removed from Salem to
Our
Corvallis, about
361 up the Willamette River.
Corvallis
was
formerly called Marysville, the county seat for Benton county.
The
Territorial University is removed from Corvallis to Jackwe have an county seat of Jackson County.
Now
sonville,
able church at Corvallis
and
I
think
we
should
make immedi-
ate effort to put in operation a high school at that place. shall leave
tomorrow with a view of
visiting
I
two or three
churches in that vicinity.
I shall feel of the public pulse, as beats through some of our leading men, on the subject of bringing up an educational interest at the seat of government. it
We
think an enterprise of this kind will in no way operate prejudicially to our school at Oregon City, but rather favorall
As to the question of your removal from the Bible ably. house, I hope the Society will let the good brethren in New York build you a good mission house, if that will end the 362
What unhappy strife. an unhappy division?
is
$40,000 or $100,000 as an offset
to
Yours,
EZRA FISHER. Received March 24.
Oregon Rev. Benjamin M. Cor. Sec.
Am.
City,
O. Ter., March
5th, 1855.
Hill,
Bap.
Dear Brother: About three weeks
Home since I
Mission Society.
drew an order on you
in favor
361 The legislature of the winter of 1854-5 changed the capital from Salem to Corvallis. and the university from Corvallis to Jacksonville. The capital was relocated at Salem! Dec. 12, 1855. Bancroft, His. of Ore., II:3$i, .152. The legislature of 1855-6 repealed all acts locating the university. F. G. Young, Financial Hist, of Ore. in Ore. Hist. Soc. Quar., VIII: 162. 362 In 1853 a serious discussion arose in the Baptist Home Mission Society over the acceptance from the American and Foreign Bible Society of rooms in its new building on Nassau Street. Friends of the "Bible Union" opposed the acThe ceptance and the trouble threatened to split the Home Mission Society. rooms in the A. & F. B. S. building were occupied until 1862. Bap. Home Mis. in N. Am., 1832-1882, p. 543.
