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 CORRESPONDENCE

Oregon

119

City, O.

Ten, July

2,

1855.

Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Cor. Sec. A. B. H. M. Soc.

Dear Brother



have just returned from the annual meeting of the Willamette Baptist Association, which was held with the Yam Hill church, ten miles west of Lafayette, the seat of justice As a business meeting, it exceeded for Yam Hill County. in interest and harmony all preceding meetings. The churches appear to be gradually arousing to the importance of the ministry becoming devoted to the one great calling, the ministry of reconciliation, and that they should be sustained in that work by the churches. Three brethren now in the field have the assurance that their salary from the churches the present year will exceed $600 each, and other churches are expressing I

a willingness to contribute according to their ability. The Association resolved that they would make an effort to sus-

two missionaries the coming year, one in Lane County and and the other in Clackamas County and vicinity, and something over $200 was subscribed on the spot. Resolutions were passed in favor of the great Christian enterprises, such

tain

vicinity

as the Baptist

Home

The changes

in the Association

Mission Society, Publication Society, etc. were as follows: Six new

churches received into the body. 869

One hundred and twenty-

three baptized; net gain, 232. Some efforts were made to remove the school from Oregon City, which resulted in a resolution to open subscriptions for a college in favor of five 370 places, towit: Oregon City, Corvallis, Santiam, Cincinnati

and Lafayette, and report next year.

The Home Missionary

Society gradually securing the confidence of the denomibut while this is said, other home mission societies nation, are represented in Oregon, and we cannot predict the results. is

Elder Johnson

is

acting as a missionary of the Free Mission

369 These six were the Union (Polk County), Good Hope (Linn County), Mount Zion (Lane County), Willamette Forks (Lane County), Palestine (Lane

County), and First Portland Churches. Minutes of Willamette Baptist Association and Mattoon, Bap. An. of Ore., I:i6, 17. 370 Cincinnati is the present Eola in Polk County.