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 REVEREND EZRA FISHER

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can sustain such a man there after supporting the suffering cause at Portland and Oregon City, both of which places are probably in greater need of a minister than Salem. Port-

At Oregon land has some permanent and able supporters. All our towns are is school for the our Territory. City subject to frequent changes, yet they are towns, and will continue to be places of trade from which an influence will be continually going out into the surrounding country and into

A

the whole world.

Sabbaths should mostly be

minister's

town unless he can have

his place filled occasionally effected can be little or by the side of other organized by proxy, churches with a stated Sabbath ministry.

spent in

As

ever yours,





EZRA FISHER.



Received Nov. 25.

Oregon City, Ore. M. To Rev. Benjamin Hill, Cor. Sec.

Dear

Am.

Bapt.

Home

Ter.,

Mission Soc.,

Nov.

New

8th, 1854.

York.

Br. Hill:

This

is

to

inform you that Rev. William F. Boyakin,354

formerly from Carrolton, Illinois, and late of St. Joseph, Missouri, arrived in Portland about the tenth of October with his family. Since that time he has been preaching to I visited Portthe scattered Baptist brethren in that place. and south. Found he west land three weeks since on a tour

was making a favorable impression on the minds of the BapSince tist members and the public; gave them some advice. return Br. Boyakin has preached in this place. He informs me that the Baptist members have invited him to labor with them in Portland for one year and that they have agreed to

my

Mission Society to appoint him as their missionary to Portland for one year with a salary of $800, $200

ask the

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354 Rev. W. F. Boyakin helped to organize the Portland Church in May, 1855. In 1856 he moved to Corvallis at the invitation of the church there. Mattoon, Bap. An. of Ore., I:n, 14. Mattoon says he was from Mississippi.