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 REVEREND EZRA FISHER

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Society, but prudently, and at this session of our Association agent for the Bible Union soliciting life member-

we met an

ships and offering for sale a portion of the Scriptures as translated by the Union, also introducing their periodicals. I have no objection to the Union's translating the Scriptures and selling them to whoever may wish to purchase. But we in Oregon must be wiser than our brethren at home, if the introduction of an agent to our little Baptist community, gathered from the ends of the earth, does not strike some discordant notes in our infant land. The Lord give us wisdom and prudence equal to our day, and save us from sin-

ning in

this matter.

As Received Aug.

ever yours,

EZRA FISHER.

11.

Oregon

City,

O. Ter., July

3,

1855.

Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Cor. Sec. of

Am.

Bap. M.

M.

Soc.

Dear Brother: I

made my

last

quarters report on the

first

In

instant.

wish to order you to attend to several branches of business for me. By this mail I shall order the discontinuance of the Christian Chronicle and substitute the New this letter I

York Recorder and also order the at $1 per year.

I shall Baptist Register in its place. is if it furnished to ministers Tribune, weekly

You

will therefore

meet the orders which

I

send you for the payment on the above-named papers. You will also pay an order which I shall send you for the Baptist

Missionary Magazine.

I

shall also

order you to pay three

dollars to the agent for the Mothers' Journal. You will, therefore, please send me a draft for the

sum

due me, after deducting twenty-four dollars and forty-eight cents ($24.48), the amount of the collection taken up at the Willamette Association, and ten dollars ($10) to meet the periodical demands against me, at your earliest convenience. Should the periodical bills exceed ten dollars, the publishers