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detailed account of my labors this quarter I refer you to my journal, which I forwarded you in December last, if I mistake not.

Respectfully submitted,

EZRA FISHER, Missionary in Oregon.

Oregon City, Feb. 20, 1850.

Herein I send you my report of labor for the third quarter of the year commencing April 1st, the quarter commencing October first, 1849. Labored thirteen weeks, preached fourteen times, delivered thirteen Sunday school lectures and twenty lectures to my day school, attended three church meetings and visited eighteen fam- ilies religiously. But have done nothing on the other various subjects required in the form of reports in the commission. The reason I assign is the circumstance of my being called to remove to Oregon City and the new and somewhat peculiar relation I have consented to sustain for the time being as a teacher in our newly organized school for Oregon.

The time has come when all these benevolent enter- prises should have a home in the hearts of all the Bap- tists in Oregon and should be responded to by benevolent action; and I think something will soon be done on the subjects of home missions, foreign missions and the Bible cause, as well as for our institution of learning. My school has been flourishing the past quarter and num- bered between sixty and seventy different scholars. I had about ten young men and lads who declaimed each two weeks and about 20, male and female, who wrote and read their compositions each alternate two weeks. Two boys in algebra, one young lady in natural philos- ophy, about a dozen in geography and about the same number in English grammar, about twenty in arithme- tic and two in history. The present term is an unfav- orable season of the year. I have taught but one week,