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Clackamas and Sandy Rivers. Next week I leave for the upper part of this valley. Our churches generally are passing through trials and declensions, such as are too common after revivals, where monthly preaching and monthly meetings take the place of weekly Sabbaths and faithful pastoral We are everywhere attempting labors through the week. to impress the churches with a sense of the importance of
regular Sabbath preaching and constant pastoral labors, and Yet changes in this respect are slow, not without success.
but will come in a few more years. I made my last quarterly report on the first of July and ordered you to pay for me ten
on periodicals. Also ordered you to forward me a draft for what will be my due, after paying those little perioddollars
accounts.
ical
I
rejoice at the prospect of
restored to the churches on the
harmony being
Home
Mission question. soon be put to rest.
God
Our grant that the Bible question may Bible Union brethren will have the Bible translated into the English language. I hope they will do the work faithfully and leave the American and Foreign Bible Society to prosecute her appropriate work unmolested and that the Peace which Christ left with the disciples
and every
may
find a
home
in every
church
heart.
Respectfully yours,
EZRA FISHER. Received Sept.
11.
Oregon
To
Rev. Benjamin M.
City,
O. Ter., Sept.
1st,
1855.
Hill,
Am. Bap. Home Mission Soc. send you my report of labor under the appointment of the Home Mission Society as General Itinerant for Cor. Sec. of
Herein
I
the second quarter ending Sept. 30th, 1855. I have labored 13 weeks; preached 21 sermons; attended
prayer meetings and six church covenant meetings; two yearly meetings of the churches; visited religiously 34 famifive
lies
and 26 individuals; have assisted
in the organization of
