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Mary Winston, Oregon City; also one dollar for Mrs. Rebecca Fanno, Portland, for the Mothers' Journal and Family Visitant and charge the same to my account. Will you see that this is promptly paid, as they wish to have their for Mrs.

Mothers' Journal continued. Received Feb. 26.

Oregon Rev. Benjamin M. Sec.

Am.

New

York.

Cor.

City,

O. Ten, Feb. 8th, 1855.

Hill,

Bap.

Home

Mission Society, Nassau

St.,

Dear Brother: take

I

this

opportunity

to

you a few

write

lines

on

And

matters first, our good people in Portland effort to build a house for public an about are making in general.

360 and today the ladies of that place make a dinner worship, as the first effort in furtherance of that important work. As they commence the work in feasting, I hope they will complete it

in praying.

The church

in

Oregon City have been employ-

ing a temporary supply, or rather reciving it, since I left their service last June, but are making an effort to secure

man in Oregon, if they can, and ask the Home Missionary Society to aid them in his support, as they feel that there is great uncertainty in obtaining a man soon from the labors of a

Oh, that the Lord would raise up faithful laborers We are in perishing and send a few to our Pacific borders need of faithful pastoral labors throughout our churches. We must pray and try to raise up ministers in Oregon. I wish we had a well endowed school manned with two or three good pious professors, to which we could direct our young men who desire to serve God with singleness of heart. But

the States.

!

money

is

now

scarce,

though

this

is

not half so alarming as

the fact that so few of our brethren take a comprehensive must educate view of our wants and the true remedy. j nrnHEn

We

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,

360 The building was not actually begun until 1861. Ore.,

1: 140.

Mattoon, Bap. An. of