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of our churches and congregations are beginning to study the Bible by subjects and meet monthly to give their views of the duties enjoined, such as the obligations of the Sabbath, The churches generally the duties of religious parents, etc. are training their young members as well as could be expected

where but monthly Sabbaths are enjoyed. However, many of members visit from church to church, so that perhaps they attend the Baptist meetings two Sabbaths in a month. the

The remaining time they

either attend other meetings or stay

home.

at

Respectfully submitted,

EZRA FISHER. Oregon

To

Rev. Benjamin

Am.

Cor. Sec.

M.

Bap.

City,

O. Ter., April

1,

1855.

Hill,

Home Mission Soc. my report of labor

under the appointsend you Home Mission Society as Exploring Agent for I have visited the 4th quarter ending March 31st, 1855. Herein

I

ment of the

during the quarter Corvallis, Albany, Oregon City, Corvallis church, French Prairie church, a settlement of Baptist brethren five miles east of Albany, Lynn Co., who will soon be constituted into a church;

a settlement of Baptists on the

Molalla prairie, where are encouraging prospects; Clackamas church and Pleasant Butte church; traveled 307 miles to and from my appointments. I have labored 13 weeks during the quarter; preached 15 sermons; paid for traveling expenses $2, for postage 37>4 cents. N. B. The traveling has been unusually bad this winter and my health, for three or four weeks of the first part of the quarter, was not so good as usual in the winter. This

account for the unusually small amount of labor I have performed. I have labored under the influence of bronchitis and dyspepsia. I have adopted a rigid system of diet and

may

hope to be able to perform

my

wonted labors the coming

season.

Respectfully submitted,

EZRA FISHER, Exploring Agent.