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order you to pay the above in a few weeks. Deduct from the amount due me on the receipt of the report $41.50 accompanying this and forward me a draft to cover the balance, which will then be my due, at your earliest convenience. I shall
EZRA FISHER. Soda Springs, Linn
Co.,
O. Ter., Jan.
1856.
1st,
Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Cor. Sec.
Am.
Bap.
Home
Mission Soc.,
Baptist Mission Rooms, N. York City. Pay the agent for the Mothers* Journal, 118 Philadelphia, five dollars
and charge the same to
Arch
my
Street,
account.
EZRA FISHER. Soda Springs, Linn Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Sec.
Am.
Bap.
Home
Co., O. Ter., Jan. 1st, 1856.
Mission Soc.,
Baptist Mission Rooms, New York City. Pay the agent of the Baptist Missionary Magazine, No. 33
Somerset Street, Boston, Mass., three dollars and charge the
same to
my
account.
EZRA FISHER. Washington Butte, Linn Rev. Benjamin M. Cor. Sec.
Am.
Co., Co.,
Oregon, Mar. 31, 1857.
Hill,
Bap.
Home
Mission Soc.
Dear Brother Hill:
now
take up my long neglected pen to give you a brief outline of the cause of Christ in Oregon at present; and I I
say at once that we are all famishing under the influThe results of the revivals in ence of a spiritual dearth. '55 and '56 are being witnessed to an alarming degree. In
may
some churches, most of the converts continue to maintain a form of godliness; in others, more than half the number of those
who
now walking in the and there are churches
united with the church are
broad road of
sin,
I
fear, to ruin;
