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 360 REVEREND EZRA FISHER addressed the people 23 times, in connection with the special meetings in the O. City and Clackamas churches, having the conducting of all the meetings at O. City church; delivered 2 temperance addresses ; have baptized 16 persons in the Oregon City church. Respectfully submitted, EZRA FISHER, Exploring Agent. N. B. Our young members are of more than usual promise and, although mostly youth, seem to be enquiring for the line of duty and willing to do it. I have never enjoyed so m(uch con- solation with the same number of young disciples as I have with these. Yours, EZRA FISHER. Oregon City, O. Ten, Apr. 2d, 1854. Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Cor. Sec. A. B. H. M. Soc., New York. Dear Br. Hill: In reviewing my labors for the past year in connection with the Zion of God in Oregon, while I have to deplore my great unfaithfulness as a minister of the blessed gospel, I have been led to rejoice that the spirit of the Lord has not been entirely taken from me. God has been graciously pleased to grant me the privilege of laboring- with five churches in the time of more than usual manifestations of Divine favor, where the enquiry has been made, "What must I do?" and the sinner has been pointed to the Lamb of God as the only cure for the sin-sick soul. Another church within our association, with which I have spent numbers of Sabbaths, has also been highly blessed with a work of grace. In these churches, as near as I can estimate, one hundred and two hopeful converts have been added by baptism. Of this numiber I baptized twenty-six, three of whom were my own dear chldren, rendered doubly dear by the recent death of their mother, and have witnessed the bap- tism of thirty-seven more. When we take into account the