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order you to pay the above in a few weeks. Deduct from the amount due me on the receipt of the report $41.50 accompanying this and forward me a draft to cover the balance, which will then be my due, at your earliest convenience. I shall

EZRA FISHER. Soda Springs, Linn

Co.,

O. Ter., Jan.

1856.

1st,

Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Cor. Sec.

Am.

Bap.

Home

Mission Soc.,

Baptist Mission Rooms, N. York City. Pay the agent for the Mothers* Journal, 118 Philadelphia, five dollars

and charge the same to

Arch

my

Street,

account.

EZRA FISHER. Soda Springs, Linn Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Sec.

Am.

Bap.

Home

Co., O. Ter., Jan. 1st, 1856.

Mission Soc.,

Baptist Mission Rooms, New York City. Pay the agent of the Baptist Missionary Magazine, No. 33

Somerset Street, Boston, Mass., three dollars and charge the

same to

my

account.

EZRA FISHER. Washington Butte, Linn Rev. Benjamin M. Cor. Sec.

Am.

Co., Co.,

Oregon, Mar. 31, 1857.

Hill,

Bap.

Home

Mission Soc.

Dear Brother Hill:

now

take up my long neglected pen to give you a brief outline of the cause of Christ in Oregon at present; and I I

say at once that we are all famishing under the influThe results of the revivals in ence of a spiritual dearth. '55 and '56 are being witnessed to an alarming degree. In

may

some churches, most of the converts continue to maintain a form of godliness; in others, more than half the number of those

who

now walking in the and there are churches

united with the church are

broad road of

sin,

I

fear, to ruin;