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from this place in the opening- of the spring. 377 But I cannot communicate with you officially on that subject till the committee visit him and report to the trustees. Yours very affectionately,

EZRA FISHER. N. B.

Holy

The

Spirit

school

upon

is

now

May God

full.

pour out His

it.

E.

Received Nov.

Oregon Rev. Benjamin M. Cor. Sec.

FISHER.

14.

City,

O. Ter., Nov. 27th, 1855.

D. D., Bapt. Home Mission Society,

Am.

Hill,

New

York.

Dear Brother: Yours of Sept.

1st, containing draft No. 8650, $376.24, was here think that Br. Post has very little duly received. reason to complain respecting support. The school, according to his statement last spring, has been a paying concern

We

three weeks after he commenced teaching, sure it has paid better since that time than quite did before, if he succeeds as well in collecting as he did

ever since the

and it

I

first

am

formerly. Private.

His course with us as a board has been rather has from time to time avowed his intention to singular. an independent school about two miles from town. Last open

He

May

the

Board of Trustees met

to take into consideration

him

to meet with us. The did he not attend. committee was appointed meeting to wait on him and inquire into sundry reports which we thought unfavorable to the prosperity of the Oregon City

the state of the school and invited first

A

That he had changed the College, such as the following: his in school the of advertisements; had proposed to

name

take females as scholars, which he has since done; had privately expressed his determination to open an independent 377 This school was opened and ran for a time just outside the present southern limits of Oregon City.