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Clackamas and Sandy Rivers. Next week I leave for the upper part of this valley. Our churches generally are passing through trials and declensions, such as are too common after revivals, where monthly preaching and monthly meetings take the place of weekly Sabbaths and faithful pastoral We are everywhere attempting labors through the week. to impress the churches with a sense of the importance of

regular Sabbath preaching and constant pastoral labors, and Yet changes in this respect are slow, not without success.

but will come in a few more years. I made my last quarterly report on the first of July and ordered you to pay for me ten

on periodicals. Also ordered you to forward me a draft for what will be my due, after paying those little perioddollars

accounts.

ical

I

rejoice at the prospect of

restored to the churches on the

harmony being

Home

Mission question. soon be put to rest.

God

Our grant that the Bible question may Bible Union brethren will have the Bible translated into the English language. I hope they will do the work faithfully and leave the American and Foreign Bible Society to prosecute her appropriate work unmolested and that the Peace which Christ left with the disciples

and every

may

find a

home

in every

church

heart.

Respectfully yours,

EZRA FISHER. Received Sept.

11.

Oregon

To

Rev. Benjamin M.

City,

O. Ter., Sept.

1st,

1855.

Hill,

Am. Bap. Home Mission Soc. send you my report of labor under the appointment of the Home Mission Society as General Itinerant for Cor. Sec. of

Herein



I

the second quarter ending Sept. 30th, 1855. I have labored 13 weeks; preached 21 sermons; attended

prayer meetings and six church covenant meetings; two yearly meetings of the churches; visited religiously 34 famifive

lies

and 26 individuals; have assisted

in the organization of